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This is a time of balance between light and dark, giving thanks for the harvest and saying good-bye to the strength of the sun. This is also a good time to ready the garden for winter.

Mabon is the time of the 2nd harvest when fruits are ready for collection. The days and nights are equal. Leaves are beginning to turn and birds are gathering for migration. This is the Pagan Thanksgiving, a time to appreciate and enjoy the fruits of your labors. Some suggested activities are:

1. Work by the sea at sunset and cast pebbles into the dying light of the water that represent all regrets, resentments, sorrows, failures and unfinished business that you do not wish to carry forward into the winter.

2. Take a bowl containing equal numbers of nuts and seeds and work outdoors. Name a success or achievement that has materialized and eat a nut; then name a failure or loss and cast a seed into the ground. Continue until you have eaten and shed the same number and can think of no more; bury the rest beneath a fruit- or nut-bearing tree.

3. Sweep up autumn leaves into a pile; jump up and down in it, expressing joy at the promise of the coming days, and naming opportunities and all you can achieve in winter. Finally scatter the leaves and let the good and the bad, the gains and the losses, be carried equally on the wind.

4. Hold an equinox party. Prepare a feast of fruits and vegetables, bread, cider and wine, fruit cup, and soups.

5. Make offerings to the land of wine, ale, mead and bread, and as you pass around a communal cup, send individual blessings to people and places where there is dearth

6. Select the best of each vegetable, herb, fruit, nut, and other food you have harvested or purchased and give it back to Mother Earth with prayers of thanksgiving.

7. Hang dried ears of corn around your home in appreciation of the harvest season.

9. Do a thanksgiving circle, offering thanks as you face each direction: for home, finances, and physical health (North); for gifts of knowledge (East); for accomplishments in career and hobbies (South); for relationships (West); and for spiritual insights and messages (Center).

10. Create a harvest despacho and burn it during Fire Ceremony or bury it in gratitude to Pachamama.

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday however the holiday originated in Canada out of labor disputes (9-Hour Movement) in the 1870s, which resulted in a Trade Union Act that legalized and protected union activity in 1872. In 1882, American labor leader Peter J. McGuire witnessed one of these labor festivals in Toronto. He returned to New York City and organized the first American labor day on September 5 of 1882.

In the aftermath of the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law 6 days after the end of the strike.

Labor Day is celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. The holiday is often regarded as a day of rest and parades. Forms of celebration include picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays, water sports, and public art events. The NFL traditionally plays their first game the Thursday following Labor Day.
(excerpt from Wikipedia)

Patriot Day
Sep 11

Patriot Day occurs on September 11, designated in memory of the 2,993 casualties in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as 9/11. Initially, the day was called the Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001. On September 4, 2002, President Bush proclaimed September 11, 2002 as Patriot Day. On this day, the President directs that the American flag be flown at half-staff at individual American homes, at the White House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home and abroad. The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. (EDT), the time of the first plane crash on September 11, 2001.
(excerpt from Wikipedia)

Apparently, President Bush was not aware that the US already had a Patriots' Day:

Patriots' Day
Occurs the 3rd Monday in April

Patriots' Day is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It is observed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and state of Maine. Observances and re-enactments of these battles occur annually at Lexington Green in Lexington, Massachusetts and The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. In the morning, a mounted re-enactor retraces Paul Revere's ride, calling out warnings the whole way. The Boston Marathon is run on Patriots' Day every year so many Bostonians know the holiday as Marathon Monday. The Boston Red Sox have traditionally been scheduled to play at home in Fenway Park on Patriots' Day every year since 1959.
(excerpt from Wikipedia)

Practice this exercise in the morning while in the shower, or in nature by a waterfall, a stream, or the ocean. Hold your left hand at the base of your spine, and with your right hand 3-4" above your pubic bone area, feel for your 1st chakra. Spin the chakra counterclockwise (imagine that your body is the face of the clock) 3-4 times, rotating your fingertips in a circle. Rinse your fingers in the water. This washes away the sludge and toxins that adhere to the walls of the chakra. Repeat for the 2nd chakra, located 2" below your navel; for the 3rd chakra at your solar plexus; for the 4th chakra at the level of your heart, in the center of your chest; for the 5th chakra at the hollow of your throat; for the 6th chakra at the center of your forehead; and finally for the 7th chakra at the top of your head. Make sure you rinse your fingers between rotations. Try to sense the dense energies, like cotton candy, of a chakra that is congested, in contrast with the tingling, light vibration of a clear chakra.

Now go back to your 1st chakra, spinning it clockwise 3-4 times. Repeat for all 7 chakras, balancing them and reestablishing their proper direction of spin. This exercise allows each chakra to spin at its optimal frequency, unencumbered by the sludge and stale energies that cause disease at a subtle level. A clean chakra is able to draw in the energies of nature to nourish your luminous energy field and maintain optimal health.

No longer is a mobile phone just a phone. Besides having internet access, email and texting, camera and even video chat, you can also turn your iPhone into a Energy Medicine Machine with these applications:

CARD DECKS
Tarot
Touch Tarot
iTarot
Goddess Tarot
Path of the Soul Destiny Cards

DIVINATION
Yi Jing Book of Changes
iChing 2Go
Viking Runes
Runes
Ogham Divination

OTHER
TAP (Meridian Tapping)
Shamanic Journey Drumming
Rainstick
iReiki
iMantra
iZen Garden Portable Zen Garden (Sandpainting)
Animal Totem
Moon Phase
Hay House Radio
Hay House Card Sampler

And if you know any good ones I have not listed, please send me the name of the application!

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Friday night: Community Despacho
Saturday (9am-5pm): Mesa/Altar Class
Sunday (9am-5pm): Ceremony Class
Both Saturday/Sunday: Individual Despachos

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Patriot Day
Sep 11

Patriots' Day
Occurs the 3rd Monday in April

Mayan 2012

Egyptian 2012

I Ching 2012

Muslim 2076

Jewish 2240

Patriot Day Sep 11

Patriots' Day Occurs the 3rd Monday in April

Patriot Day
Sep 11

Patriots' Day
Occurs the 3rd Monday in April