Is there a significance to the autumnal equinox? (in your religion or in a religion you have studied)?

Question

if you answer could you do so and give your religion so i have an idea of where it has any significance.

Answer 1

Druid Ancient Celt
Greeting To The Autumn Equinox

Hail! Journeyer of the Heavens,
Autumn Equinox (also known as Mabon or Harvest Home) is celebrated when day and night are of equal duration before the descent into increasing darkness and is the final festival of the season of harvest.

Queen of Brightness, King of Beauty!
Gifts of gladness richly bringing,
Autumn sheaves and red leaves' fall.
Generous be the heart within us,
Open be our hands to all,
Justice to be in equal measure,
Harvest thankfulness our call.

Many of the Druid's religious practices were incorporated into the Christian religion to convert others to Christianity. Eventually the converts were used to convert or help destroy the last of the Druids, They didn't totally succeed, just drove it underground.
We live!

Answer 2

Almost all religions have holidays coinciding with the solstices and equinoxes. In more primitive times, when the survival of a community depended on the weather, the start of a new season (and the end of an old one) was a dramatic turn of events. The traditions that started as ritualized attempts to hasten (or influence) this change of seasons evolved into traditions for celebrating the seasons (the end of winter, the beginning of spring, the new harvest, etc.), and these ancient traditions have been adapted for virtually all cultures and religions. Obviously, in Christianity, there is Easter for the start of Spring, Christmas for the start of Winter, etc. In the Jewish tradition, the autumn equinox is time for Sukkot. In America, the Thanksgiving harvest tradition, which began as an effort by the Pilgrims to thank God for their survival in a harsh new world, has evolved into a more secular autumn holiday - but it maintains the ancient human tradition of the harvest feast.

Answer 3

AUTUMN EQUINOX/MABON: (on or about September 21) The Second or Continuing Harvest. Now, as at Ostara, the days and nights are equal once again. gardens are in full bloom and heavy with nature's bounty. There is a slight nip in the air already and preparations begin to prepare for the long cold months which are to come.

Answer 4

I am Asatru, a Norse Pagan basically. The autumn equinox is the celebration of the halfway point through autumn when day and night are equal. It's seen as the time for introspection as we get ready for winter and the nights begin to get a little longer. It's another one of the harvest celebrations and is basically the Norse thanksgiving. Land spirits are honored at this time as are the Gods who influence the harvest such as Frey and Thor.

Answer 5

I celebrate it as Mabon (I'm Wiccan). The autumnal equinox is the time where the days and nights are of equal length. We celebrate balance and polarity.

Also, we celebrate it as the second harvest. (the first is in the beginning of August and the third is at the end of October). This is the fruit harvest and we celebrate it as a thanksgiving. Its the beginning of fall, and really the beginning of our descent toward winter.

Answer 6

Jewish- 60 days after the (Julian, not Gregorian) autumnal equinox, we insert a prayer for rain into our daily prayers, based on the start of the rainy season in Babylonia. (This is about December 4-5)

Answer 7

It's a holiday. Called Mabon.

I'm Pagan

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 8

Mabon is another holiday in the wheel of the year.

Answer 9

UH...we celebrate Thanksgiving...it isn't exactly a religious holiday, but Christians thank our God for everything He has given us...sort of like the original "tithe"....
Does that count?

-------------------Original Tithe Law-------------------
Deu 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
Deu 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
Deu 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Deu 14:25 Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
Deu 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,