Autumn Equinox Altar Candle — 4″ Lailokens Awen Mabon

Quick Specs

• Brand: Lailokens Awen
• Type: Beeswax pillar candle, hand-anointed with Autumn Equinox oil
• Size: 4 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches diameter, gold
• Best for: Mabon altar, balance rites, second harvest workings, gratitude practice

Mabon and the Balance Point of Autumn

The Autumn Equinox falls around September 21 and is the only moment of the year when day and night stand in equal measure before darkness begins to exceed light. Modern Pagans most often call this sabbat Mabon, a name borrowed from the Welsh myth of Mabon ap Modron, the divine youth stolen from his mother Modron three days after birth and held captive until freed by the heroes Culhwch and Olwen. The myth encodes the theme of something precious held in darkness and waiting to be retrieved, a resonant metaphor for the returning dark half of the year. The name Mabon was applied to the equinox by Aidan Kelly in the 1970s and has since become standard in most Wiccan traditions.

Lailokens Awen creates this gold candle on the day of the Autumn Equinox, anointing it with an oil formulated from organic essential oils selected for balance, gratitude, and the second harvest correspondences. Gold reflects the harvest light of late September, the color of ripened grain, turning leaves, and the sun at a lower arc in the sky. The Hermetic principle of making the candle at the moment of exact seasonal alignment means it carries that equinox energy directly, not as a symbolism imposed after the fact but as a material record of the timing.

Balance, Gratitude, and the Second Harvest

Mabon is called the second harvest because it follows Lughnasadh’s grain harvest with the fruit harvest, apples, grapes, nuts, and late-season vegetables that store through winter. The altar for this sabbat traditionally includes apples, pomegranates, corn, nuts, and seasonal foliage in orange, red, and gold. Balance is the other central theme: paired candles representing light and dark, a scale, or sun and moon imagery placed together to honor the moment before darkness takes the lead. The equinox invites both celebration of what has been accomplished and honest reckoning with what was not.

The practical ritual work of Mabon involves gratitude ceremonies, release practices to let go of what did not serve the year, and setting intentions for the darker half that approaches. The original product description notes this candle attuning to “balance between light and dark, with dark on the increase,” which is a straightforward and honest framing of what the equinox actually means in the Wheel of the Year. Trim the wick to a quarter inch before each burn and use the candle through September and into October for seasonal attunement and second harvest rites.

How to Use the Autumn Equinox Altar Candle

The Tarot Fellow Standard

Mabon is the sabbat most concerned with honest reckoning, acknowledging what has been accomplished and what has not before the dark half of the year arrives. I find Lailokens Awen’s equinox candle suited to that quality because there is nothing decorative about the production philosophy. The candle was made on September 21, anointed specifically for the equinox, and packaged to carry that timing forward. For the complete Wheel of the Year in Lailokens Awen candles, browse my Lailokens Awen collection. For altar supplies and harvest tools, explore my altar supplies.

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