MABON 2000

Many of you have said you didn't know what was inside the article, until you visited each and every page. Following is an index of articles, hyperlinked, and which page you can find them on. Just click on the buttons at the top of this page, or the index item itself to read the articles:

SECTION I - HOLIDAY LORE

Mabon Lore & Recipes - StormWing
Mabon - Angie as featured on The Enchanted Grove
Harvest Home - Mike Nichols
Mabon Recipes, lore and chants - Isha ArrowHawk
Mabon Solitary Ritual - StormWing

SECTION II - FAMILY ISSUES

Promoting Pagan Family Values - Selene Silverwind

SECTION III - STORY-TIME

Stones Rising Weekend - Review By Midnight Grey Wolfpup
Abby - Mystickally
Mystic Moon - ~Rain
Michael and Beth Chronicles - Selene SilverWind
Mewsings from The Ally - Mystickally
Warm and Happy - Debbie Staley
Elements of Norse Shape-shifting - Odhinn
The Goddess Companion - Review by Susan Davis
MEAGAN'S MABON - Kathryn Dyer
My Friend The Tree - chapter six - "T"
Hawaiian Magic & Spirituality - Review by Susan Davis
My Life - DreamDancer
Ravens Rants - Meditation for the body and soul - LadyRavenWitch

SECTION IV - ONLINE RESOURCES

Herb Corner - Dor
Planetary Ritual for the Seasons: Autumnal Equinox: September 22nd, 2000 - © 1999 Sarolta DeFaltay-Bell

To Witches, the month of September is the time of the descent of the Goddess into the Underworld. With Her departure we see the decline of nature and the coming of winter. This is a classic, ancient mythos, seen in the Sumerian myth of Inanna and the ancient Greek and Roman legends of Demeter and Persephone. In September we also bid farewell to the Harvest Lord, who was slain at Lammas (August 1). He is the Green Man, seen as the cycle of nature in the plant kingdom. He is harvested and his seeds are planted into the earth so that life may continue and be more abundant. Welcome to the Mabon 2000 issue of Cauldrons and Broomsticks Ezine. Our largest Mabon issue to date.

We start the issue out with the holiday section, featuring no less that 5 separate articles. Lore, recipes, chants, and even a ritual. What a great way to start out the issue ... with articles from StormWing, Angie from The Enchanted Grove, Mike Nichols, and Isha ArrowHawk. Followed by a wonderful regular by one of my favorite people; Selene Silverwind. Her ideas on promoting pagan family values are superb.

Following that, we go into a more free form section of our issue, the Story Time section. In it you'll find 3 separate reviews; two book reviews by a regular of ours, a very talented Susan Davis, and one review by a rookie writer called Midnight Grey Wolfpup. :-)  I was  actually able to attend an Earth based weekend called Stones Rising at Four Quarters Farm in Artemis PA. I get invited to many different activities here in the North East, and this one I was able to attend.  Words will *not* do that one justice, I can assure you. But I'll try to share my feelings about it.  We also have in that section our wonderful regular articles that everyone has been watching so very closely for so very long .... Abby, Mystic Moon, Michael and Beth Chronicles, Meagan's Mabon, My Friend The Tree, and the list goes on and on. My own big brother DreamDancer joins us with more of his thoughts, which can be so very beautiful and enlightening, and my very own Mrs. The Wolfpup shares one of her private and most personal poems ..... Warm and Happy. There's even a short term paper on the Elements of Norse Shape-shifting inside. Check that one out, for sure. And LadyRavenWitch has added Ravens Rants once again. This section is easily one of the most enjoyable for me, as it's the one where just about anything goes. Thoughts, ideas, poems, you name it. As long as it's yours ... it can pretty much go in there. Your going to be amazed at the reading available to you here.

And last but not even least, you'll be led to Dor's Herb Corner. This issue we explore a very versatile herb used in cooking, rituals, healing and aromatherapy ..... Rosemary. She even told me she learned so much just writing the article. :-) And we finish with a kick butt section on a Planetary Ritual for the Seasons by Sarolta DeFaltay-Bell. Your going to be amazed at the information she shares with us, as she goes above and beyond her usual wonderful articles. She has a great ritual, as always .... then continues on with Herbal Lore, incense and candle use, a question and answer session with her subscribers, the lunar cycles made easy, and a good session explaining the astrological houses!!!

It seems that no matter where you look in this issue, it was just meant to be a good one. A record one. One that will be very hard for all of us to top. A history making issue for your Mabon holiday. And I have brought us to a very important point. This will be a very hard issue to top, for all of us. Yes, that also means each of you. As every heading to every issue has *always* said .... "CAULDRONS AND BROOMSTICKS, A newsletter for and by the Pagan/Wiccan Internet Community". Yes, you are the Community the same as I am .. and all of our staff. Enjoy this issue, and enjoy the thoughts and beauty inside. Then join us in the next issue. We've missed you .... :-)

Blessings, warmth and love ....
Midnight Grey Wolfpup
"The Wolfpup"
Editor/Publisher/Owner
Cauldrons and Broomsticks Ezine
http://www.cauldrons-broomsticks.net/