Fall is the time of Thanksgiving, a time of gifts and blessings worldwide. Day and night are equal and the balance of giving and taking, of light and dark, summer and winter, life and death are the focus of this Sabbat. From now on the nights are longer than the day. It's a time to reap the harvest grown from the sowing done at Spring Equinox. At Summer Solstice we nurtured and watered our crops, weeded that which would limit our harvests. Now, we grieve over the dying of the Goddess, but know that She will return. In the meantime, we take Her harvest into our bodies, and the knowledge of the Cycle of Life into our souls. Though the year is waning and winter approaches, the emphasis is less on death than on the message of rebirth in the harvest seeds and the plenty of the season.

Our evening of myth and ritual theater begins by making an offering for this year's bounty. Bring a fruit or vegetable to add to the temple harvest altar. While at the altar, you can take a small envelope, place some sacred dream seeds within to protect and nurture for next spring's planting. Then we give thanks as the Harvest Queen enters with her young acrobatic daughter, Persephone, who dances with joy for the bounty of the Earth Mother.

As our Equinox myth and enactment unfolds, the Child of Duality journeys forth in search of inner balance and an understanding of opposites. In the Mystical Time of Twilight, the Child of Duality meets the Polarity Guardians, many characters composed of dueling dichotomies who seek to convince him that he must choose between the opposites, choose which is best. What he learns on his adventure in the Mystical Twilight is the power that comes from embracing the opposites as polarities, different but equal.

Journey with us as we seek the inner balance and power that comes from experiencing and learning from the opposites which naturally exist in the Universe. Only by embracing the opposites in this way can we truly be successful Gardeners of our Lives.

Join us as we harvest the bounty we deserve. Harvest it for the Earth, ourselves, each other, and community, through dance, song, and sacred enactment. DON'T FORGET! Bring a fruit or vegetable for the Harvest Altar. Journey with us as we seek the essence of true strength to be the successful Gardeners of our Lives.