Folklore at Mabon

Step into the extraordinary with MABON’s Fire Walk. Guided safely over glowing embers, participants confront fear, embrace focus, and celebrate personal courage. This transformative experience blends ritual, mindfulness, and spectacle, leaving every walker with a sense of achievement, connection, and the thrill of dancing with fire in a safe, electrifying setting.

For Mabon, the festival of balance and harvest, this “apple of affirmation” altar stands as an offering to the season. It honours abundance, ripeness, and the turning of the year.

You are invited to approach the altar and choose an apple. Hold it gently in your hands. Whisper into its skin—an affirmation, a blessing, or an intention for the season ahead. Let your breath and your words sink into the fruit, transforming it into a vessel of your voice.

When you are ready, carry your apple to the press. Place it among the others, and together they are pressed—many voices becoming one flow. As the sweetness is released, it mingles into a shared offering. Drink the fresh juice, tasting your intention woven with the abundance of the harvest.

The altar becomes a living cycle of offering and return: fruit gathered, affirmed, transformed, and consumed. In this act of folk ritual, we honour Mabon—the balance of day and night, the blessings of harvest, and the renewal of our own voices within the turning year.

Rebecca Wyn Kelly is a Welsh-speaking artist specialising in ritual and land art. Through large-scale, site-responsive installations, she explores the evolving relationship between human intervention and the natural world. Her work captures moments of disintegration and reconstruction, offering a poignant reflection on environmental decay, renewal, and transformation .