It is associated with the taking of corn and the completion of the harvest. Druids honored the willow tree, a tree associated with the Goddess and with death, and cut their wands from its branches just before Mabon. After this night of balance, darkness will once again overcome the light. This is considered, by many Wiccan Traditions, the official turning point to the dark of the year. This Sabbat was named for Mabon, the Welsh God who symbolized the male fertilizing principle.

Rituals which enact the elderly aspects of both the Goddess and the God are performed at this Sabbat. The God is preparing for his death at Samhain and the Goddess is entering into her aspect of The Crone, though deep inside her Maiden aspect the impregnated seed of the God lives on to be born again at Yule. And so the Wheel of the Year eternally turns....