Lammas or Lughnasadh
Lammas Blessings one and all as the wheel of the year once more turns and we find ourselves in another season of the year. Lammas or Lughnasadh is all about Gratitude. It is the time of the year when the first grain harvest happens. We can often forget what our ancestors used to have to endure in order to grow their food and how much they relied on nature and it’s blessings for enabling them have a good crop.
At harvest time feeling thankful for the abundance Mother Earth affords us.
Below excerpt taken from:
http://www.glenniekindred.co.uk/articles/wheeloftheyear.html
It is now high summer and the union of Sun and Earth, of God and Goddess, has produced the First Harvest. Lammas is the celebration of this first, Grain Harvest, a time for gathering in and giving thanks for abundance. We work with the cycle that Mabon or the Autumn Equinox is the Second Harvest of Fruit, and Samhain is the third and Final Harvest of Nuts and Berries.
The goddess Demeter is associated with this festival.
Lammas is the season of the grain harvest. It’s the time when the fields are rolling with golden waves of wheat, tall green stalks of corn. If you live in a rural area, it’s a kind of magical time, as farmers tend to their fields to harvest what was sown in the spring. For many of us, grain is a significant part of our diet. Use this simple prayer to the grain fields as a way of acknowledging the season.
Prayer for the Grain
Fields of gold,waves of grain,the summer comes to a close.The harvest is ready,ripe for threshing,as the sun fades into autumn.Flour will be milled,bread will be baked,and we shall eat for another winter.
For more on the wheel of the year see this article~ http://www.glenniekindred.co.uk/articles/wheeloftheyear.html
Tune in to this energy when you can (officially Sunday 2nd August this year) and use it to set your intentions for the last part of the year up to and including Winter Solstice.
Look back at the year so far and celebrate your wins as well as sending gratitude prayers out for all you already have.
