Also known as Harvest Home, it is the time the spirit of vegetation sacrifices itself so that we may live. It is a happy time, one of plenty and comfort, when people assure themselves there is enough to see them through the coming winter. Mabon is an equinox festival, the day half way between the solstices. It is a time of balance, a time when light and day are equal. Just as the God of Light defeated the God of Darkness at Ostara, so does the God of Darkness vanquish the God of Light at this time of year, creating balance and the changing of the seasons.
Harvest home is the end of the hardest work of the year.
The crops are gathered in. The nights become colder, yet the days have not yet assumed the chill of winter. It is the day autumn commences and leads us towards the depth of Yule and the rebirth of the sun king. Decorations at this time of year include the cornucopia, the horn of plenty, filled to overflowing with the fruits of the year. Certainly this is a sympathetic magick symbol of the largess of the Mother.