LITERAL REMAINS

Mabon / Autumnal Equinox, our next sabbat on the 22nd of September, is the second of three harvest holidays. A traditional practice is to walk wild places and forests, gathering seed pods and dried plants. Some of these can be used to decorate the home, others saved for future herbal magick. The making of corn dollies which represent the harvest mother goddess is common. These traveled with the last loads of grain harvested. It is said the spirit of the mother goddess resides in the last sheaf of grain left uncut and was treated with respect or fear. As the nights grow crisp, autumn arrives..

The Autumnal Equinox, or 2nd Harvest, is celebrated.
A time when darkness overtakes light, the days become shorter.  The Druidic Alban Elued, the light of the water is celebrated.  This is also the Weavers festival, where magickal knots are tied in ritual.  Pagans see this as a time when the God loses his strength while the Goddess watches her dying mate in both sorrow and joy.  (from The Inner Sanctum of Wicca and Witchcraft)

The holiday of Autumn Equinox, Harvest Home, Mabon, the Feast of the Ingathering, Meán Fómhair or Alban Elfed (in Neo-Druidic traditions), is a ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and God during the winter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology.  In the northern hemisphere this equinox occurs anywhere from September 21 to 24. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn equinox occurs anywhere from March 19 to 22. Among the sabbats, it is the second of the three harvest festivals, preceded byLammas/Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain.  (from Wikipedia)