The Mabon festival is the time of harvest, it is a time of hope. What do we hope will be the "harvest" of our lives: darkness or light? Life or death?

Light [red] and dark [brown] again stand equal. In the foreground a field of wheat and corn is ripening. In the field and the group of twelve looking toward the sky. To the other side stand a group of darkly clad people, many carrying weapons in their hands.

The Pagan story of the harvest is paralleled in the sacred writings references to a future harvest where the divine will embrace those who embraced his child and call to account those who have rejected this embrace, choosing to dance to their own tune. Thus the two groups are symbolised in this picture, as well the role of the divine child as harvester, hence the sickle in his hands.

In the sky the Divine Sun of Righteousness ascends towards the Sun, carrying a sickle in his hands.

In the story the Sun King also travels to the undying lands. This story the sacred writings affirm to be true of the sun of righteousness who rose from death, "the firstborn of the dead", traveled to prepare a place for his followers and will return to "harvest" the people of the divine. This is the hope the Divine Child offers.

The wheel of the year has turned full circle as we return to the festival of Samhain. Will the cycle continue to turn or can wee seek a new beginning offering re-birth from the circle of ever battling light and darkness, good and evil, life and earth? Samhain symbolises a time of re-birth.