Happy First Day of Fall!
Today (actually, a couple hours ago) marked the autumnal equinox -- the day in the northern hemisphere when the sun crosses the equator going south, and day and night everywhere are of equal length.
Also, a Happy Mabon to the pagans out there. In late summer, members of Earth-based religions, such as Wicca, move many rituals and practices outside to be closer to the nature they hold sacred.
Mabon Sabbat is the second and main Wiccan harvest festival -- a ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth. The ritual usually recognizes the need to share these fruits to secure the blessings of the goddess and god during the winter.
"Equinox" descends from aequus, the Latin word for "equal," and nox, the Latin word for "night" -- which makes sense for a word describing days of the year when the day- and nightime are equal in length.
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