Mabon 2001
by Ace

Extra Props 
Autumn Leaves
Cloth
Fighting Staffs
Scrying Bowl
3 Masks
Candles.

Setup
Circle is half in darkness and half lit by candles.

Circle Cast

Call Quarters

Narrator:	As the wheel of the Year once again turns, it is time to celebrate the sabbat of Mabon - the Autumn Equinox.

	We again stand at the time of equal light and dark. As the darkness descends with the approach of the cold of winter, our orientation changes from outwards and long sunny days outside, to inside, inwards and the long dark nights ahead.”

The King and His Son enter the circle and fight with staffs. They kill each other.

Narrator: 	The land once again changes around us. It is a time to remember also, that the King and Son fight and descend to the Otherworld.

King and Son are covered with a cloth. Each person to come forward and say appropriate words are they scatter leaves over the cloth.

Narrator:	And in nature it is a time of falling leaves and seeds, of mists and winds and of hibernation and migrating birds.

Crone steps forward and drapes herself in black. She scatters leaves over the cloth and mourns her husband and son.

Crone:	It is a time to turn inward and look back, to ask who am I, where do I belong… to reflect on the seeds of ideas and plans that have been sown.

The Lord of Death and Resurrection emerges from under the cloth of leaves (person playing the King slips on mask whilst under the cloth).

Lord:	It is a time of gathering and celebration of the second harvest and the harvest is your life.

Each person goes to the Lord of Death and Resurrection and kneels before him. He asks them to look into the scrying bowl and reflect on their harvest.

After all have scried and returned to the circle the Lord moves to the Light half of the circle.

Lord:	And also to acknowledge that which has passed has gone, a time to let go and move on to the next cycle…

Lord of Death and Ressurection blows out one of the candles as we move from the time of balance to the next phase.

Cakes and ale.

Close circle