# Aidan Kelly

The autumn equinox falls on 23 September in the UK in 2026. This marks the definite slide towards the winter solstice! In terms of folklore, there are many articles about the autumn equinox from a neopagan perspective. Yet the festival only gained the name 'Mabon' in the 1970s, named by American …

Hey friend! This one's about the autumn equinox — Mabon, the second harvest, that quiet pivot where the year starts exhaling and the light and dark find their balance for a moment before tilting. I get into the Welsh myth roots, the modern naming by Aidan Kelly, the symbols (apples, gourds, wine, …

The modern Pagan name for the fall equinox belongs to a Welsh man who was kidnapped when he was three nights old, imprisoned for an unknown length of time, and rescued only because one of King Arthur's impossible tasks required him to handle a magical hunting dog. In 1974, a Pagan writer named Aida…