Autumn Equinox Drink Recipes
Celebrate the bounty of the second harvest with a delicious mocktail or cocktail. From juicy blackberry herbal drinks, to ones with maple and pumpkin, these Mabon and Fall/Autumn Equinox drink recipes are perfect for celebrating the transition into the darker months of the year.
This post contains Amazon, Etsy, & Drizly affiliate links. As an Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for supporting me and my blog!
About Mabon and the Fall/Autumn Equinox
Read on to learn more about Mabon and the Fall/Autumn Equinox, or scroll down to the recipes below.
Mabon is a celebration of the Autumn or Fall Equinox – a time of transition from summer to fall, that marks the waning of the year. Following this day, the hours of daylight will lessen, while the length of night and the darker hours will grow (hence time change season!). A temporary day of equal night and light hanging in the balance, this time period is marked as a time of transition into darkness, but with the promise of eventual rebirth in the Spring.
Mabon is named from the Welsh god, Mabon, who was stolen away to the underworld. Themes of loss and surrender start to arise now, as we journey inward for the colder months of the year. This day is also often celebrated as one of three harvests of the harvest season – the first being Lammas or Lughnasadh, and the third being Samhain, or halloween. So, this is a time to both reflect inward on themes of balance and darkness, but also to give thanks for bounty yet to come, and connect to ancestral energies.
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 changing of the Season. And for all around resource on practicing magic and the various Sabbats, Dorothy Morrison’s The Craft is one of my favorites!
Since Mabon celebrates bounty as a harvest, and what better time to drink? Let’s move onto what Autumn Equinox drinks I suggest from my blog, and from both of my books (if you happen to have those!)
Autumn Equinox Drink Recipes From My Books
(Or Skip to Blog Recipes Below)
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 Autumn Equinox drink recipes from the blog further down below.
Fiery Mabon Cocktail
From WitchCraft Cocktails
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
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.
Stability Sour
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.
Autumn Equinox Drink Recipes
from Moon, Magic, Mixology
- Blackberry Liqueur
- The Twin’s Creativity Potion
- Pumpkin Spice Lunar Latte
- Stormy Dark Moon
- & more!
Autumn Equinox Drink Recipes
from WitchCraft Cocktails
- Blackberry Sage Shrub
- Persephone’s Descent
- The Black Cat
- The Scales
- Witch’s Cosmo
- & more!
Autumn Equinox Drink Recipes
From maple, nutty concoctions, to pumpkin flavors and spices, here are 8 Autumn Equinox drink recipes from the blog to help you usher in the change of the season.
Fig & Maple Harvest Sour
Cocktail & Mocktail
Sip in the flavors of the transition from bright summer to crisp fall, with this deeply soothing, rejuvenating, and sensual fig and maple drink. 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!
Blackberry Rose Coffee Drink
Cocktail & Mocktail
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.
Scorpio Moon Smash
Cocktail & Mocktail
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 Autumn Equinox celebrations!
Maple Gin Hot Toddy
Cocktail & Mocktail
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 Autumn Equinox drink makes a great choice for inspiring reflection, introspection, and cleansing away the old for Mabon.
The Painted Lady
Cocktail
One of my favorite cocktail creations to date, The Painted Lady is a great choice for an autumn equinox 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 – ruled Libra season) such as rose and earthy, bold red wine – perfect for celebrating the earthy’s bounty and a shift towards the darker side of the year.
Pumpkin Cream Martini
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 in and celebrate abundance this Autumn Equinox.
Maple & Hazelnut Old Fashioned
Cocktail
Celebrate the transition into autumn flavors with this smooth, subtly sweet maple and hazelnut old fashioned drink recipe. 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.
Lammas Beer Cocktail
Cocktail
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!
