Celebrate the start of autumn with these delicious drink recipes for Mabon. From warming maple teas, to refreshing blackberry spritzers, these autumnal equinox cocktails and mocktails are perfect for honoring the harvest.
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Mabon is the name often used to refer to the celebration of the Autumnal Equinox on The Wheel of Year (a cycle of 8 modern pagan holidays that celebrate the changing of seasons).
The name Mabon is actually a Welsh deity that has no connection to Mabon whatsoever. It was selected by Aiden Kelly in the 1970s for arbitrary reasons. In the last few years, more and more witches have brought awareness to this, especially as the erasure of Welsh culture.
If you wish, you can use alternative names like “Autumn Equinox” or some even call it “Harvest Home.” I call it the Autumn Equinox in my personal life, but interweave the name Mabon in this drink recipe blog since it is what most witches are familiar with.
Witchcraft and language evolves overtime. What’s most important is your connection to your practice.
About Mabon and the Fall/Autumn Equinox
Mabon is a celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and considered the second harvest of harvest season. Especially as we move into Autumn, it’s hard not to cozy up to those warm orange hues, abundant pumpkin and spiced recipes. Of course you’d want to whip up some delicious recipes for Mabon!
The Autumnal Equinox is time of transition from summer to fall. Following this day, the hours of daylight will lessen, while the length of night will grow. It is a threshold where the hours of daylight and dark are held in a temporary (close as possible) balance. But, this can depend on your location in the world.
So, this is a time to both reflect inward on themes of balance and darkness, but also to give thanks for the seasons bounty. There are so many myths surrounding this time, like Greek Goddess Persephone’s descent into the underworld. Themes of loss and surrender start to arise now, as we journey inward and prepare the home for the colder months of the year.
If you’re looking for an easy Mabon ritual, it’s really great just to reflect and set intentions. I talk all about the Autumn Equinox in the video below. So grab you favorite drink recipe for Mabon below and listen in!
Watch this V ideo on Autumn Equinox Themes
Other Mabon Resources
If you wish to learn more about Mabon, there are lots of great books! For green witches who love to use in-season herbal ingredients, A Year of Plant Magic by Sandra Kynes is a fantastic reference for yearly plant magic in tune with the seasons. And for an all around resource on practicing magic and the various Sabbats, Dorothy Morrison’sThe Craft is one of my favorites!
Since the Autumn Equinox marks a time of harvest, what better time to whip up Mabon drinks with fresh, seasonal produce? Let’s move onto what Autumn Equinox recipes I suggest from my blog and from both of my books (if you happen to have those!)
Autumn Equinox Cocktails from my Books
My books Moon, Magic, Mixology, and WitchCraft Cocktails are filled with guidance on how to make magical drinks, and recipes aligned to everything bewitching. See what recipes I suggest from my books (if you have them) below, or skip on to drink recipes for Mabon available on the blog further down below.
“Fiery Mabon Cocktail” From WitchCraft Cocktails by Julia Halina Hadas. Published by Adam’s Media of Simon & Schuster. Photo by Harper Point Photography
With seasonal blackberry, sage, and the magical properties of scotch, this cocktail (with some fire flare) is perfect for ushering in the transition of the season with Mabon.
“Moon Mulled Wine” From Moon, Magic, Mixology by Julia Halina Hadas. Published by Adam’s Media of Simon & Schuster. Photo by Harper Point Photography
With spices like cardamom, as well as honey, orange, and lemon, this white Moon Mulled Wine Recipe is perfect for celebrating gratitude and releasing with the waning moon.
“Taurus Moon Stability Sour” From Moon, Magic, Mixology by Julia Halina Hadas. Published by Adam’s Media of Simon & Schuster. Photo by Harper Point Photography
Imbibe the flavors of season, with this apple and blackberry sour. With rose and elderflower, too, this drink is perfect for welcoming the balance of the Season.
From maple, nutty concoctions, to pumpkin flavors and spices, here are 12 Autumn Equinox drink options to celebrate Mabon and the change of seasons.
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Liquid Gold
If you’re celebrating abundance this equinox, Liquid Gold is the Mabon recipe for you. With spices, almond, pineapple, honey flavors it is a perfect mix of Fall and summer flavors and aligned to bring in abundance. A toast to the end of summer and an abundant Autumn.Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
Sip in the remains of the summer harvest and the herbal, pine flavors of fall with this awakening, grounding, and introspective hot toddy. With sage, rosemary, lemon, and maple (and an optional addition of gin for a gin hot toddy), this Mabon drink makes a great autumn gin cocktail or mocktail.Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
The end of Virgo season brings Mabon in the northern hemisphere, and this year there is a Virgo solar eclipse the day before. If you’re in the headspace of reflection and cleansing this Autumn Equinox, then this an earl grey, mint, and lemon harvest spritzer is a great choice for an easy Mabon recipe.Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
Mabon marks the second harvest! Using summer herbs like lavender, sage, and brightening lemon citrus, and fall spices like nutmeg, anise, and even woodsy maple, this juicy fig concoction is sure to inspire spiritual wisdom, creative inspiration, love, and prosperity!Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
Celebrate the transition into autumn flavors with this smooth, subtly sweet maple and hazelnut old fashioned drink recipe for Mabon. With a bourbon base to celebrate the grain harvest, nutty hazelnut liqueur and maple for seasonal flavors, this old fashioned recipe is a fast-favorite for abundance, grounding, and wisdom.Cocktail
Pumpkin spice is not only the flavor of the season, it is packed with ingredients for spirituality and prosperity! My Prosperous Pumpkin cocktail from WitchCraft Cocktails will always be my favorite, but for those that don’t have my book and are willing to put a little extra effort in, this cinnamon liqueur, nutty, pumpkin martini with cream and vanilla, is a wonderful spiced and soothing dessert cocktail to call and celebrate abundance this Autumn Equinox.Cocktail
The Autumn Equinox marks the shift of seasons, and if you find yourself tuning into healing and surrender as part of the witch’s path, I highly recommend this recipe for Mabon.A pomegranate, blackberry, maple, and ginger witches brew, this recipe is not just seasonal and seductive, but uses ingredients associated with a witch’s path in witchcraft. Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
With the start of fall it is officially witching season! And nothing seems to emit that cozy witch vibe better than Practical Magic. Inspired by the movie but with authentic witchcraft ingredient, this recipe has lavender for luck and rosemary for remembrance. Each sip, you’ll fall more in love with this luscious blackberry, agave, and pomegranate Mabon recipe.Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
For some, the Autumn Equinox is a time of gratitude. A crisp, sweet rose and citrus cocktail inspired by Hilarie Burton Morgan’s book Grimoire Girl, this makes a great Mabon drink for connection, gratitude, reflecting on fond memories, and reigniting the inner magic and wisdom within. Complimented with alluring rose and subtly sweet maple, the drink finishes with a smoked “rosemary for remembrance.”Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
With juicy blackberry, and herbal flavors like basil, mint, and ginger, this drink is packed with harvest ingredients for celebrating abundance, and refreshing, cleansing energy. So, while it was made with the Scorpio moon in mind, it makes a great choice for Mabon celebrations!Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
The Painted Lady is a great choice for a Mabon drink. A drink of balance, with cleansing ingredients like lemon and egg white, a grounding grain base with rye whiskey for the harvest, and sensual additions (perfect for Venus-ruled Libra season) such as rose and earthy, bold red wine – perfect for celebrating the earthy’s bounty and welcoming Libra season.Cocktail
Blackberry is one of my favorite flavors of the season, and with the addition of spices and almond flavors, this coffee drink is a great choice for a Mabon drink. As the Autumnal Equinox rings in Libra season, this drink is packed with Venus flavors like vanilla and rose. making this concoction a great choice for Love, Sensuality, Energy, Abundance, Wisdom as we head into the darker parts of the year.Cocktail & Nonalcoholic Mocktail Options
For those of us still very-much in summer weather, this Lughnasadah Harvest Beer cocktail, with apple brandy and ginger spice makes a great choice for a harvest Mabon cocktail! With the addition of chamomile and orange, this concoction is great for Harvest time cleansing, as well as abundance, ancestry, & grounding. Not to mention, beer was the first alcoholic beverage many of our earlier human ancestors enjoyed – so drink up!Cocktail
