🍁LAMMAS🍁
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🍁 Also known as Lughnasadh
🍁 WHEN IS LAMMAS? 🍁
Northern hemisphere: 1 August
Southern hemisphere: 1 February
🍁 WHAT IS LAMMAS?🍁
🍂 Lammas is a celebration of harvest; it’s the realization that the green earth’s energies and bustling growth are beginning to slow down, darker and the colder days will arrive soon and summer is coming to an end. The warm days are still lingering, the sun god is losing his strength; he is finishing putting his energies into the earth now, producing the first of the two harvests, but he has not yet come to an end. The goddess’s condition has now changedl she is the grain mother. She will dry the crops and let the seeds fall from them into the earth now, where they will rest all through winter,returning at Imbolc. The main theme of Lammas is fulfilment; the earth is producing a harvest and providing us with food.
🍁 HOW TO CELEBRATE IT🍁-
Lammas celebrations reflect the achievements of the physical,mental, emotional and creative labours of the last few months.
🍁 ACTIVITIES 🍁:
🍂 Create a corn mother or a corn dolly. These can be made from things left over from the first harvest in the fields- corn,reeds,wheat,etc…
🍂 Relevant spells to cast at this time of the year are for abundance, connection, career, mental or physical gain. Cast your circle with relevant grains such as oats,corn and wheat; this can strengthen your circle.
🍂 Also, if you have any spells where you require the sun’s energies, cast them now!
🍂 This is a time for fulfillment, especially when it comes from the harvest.
🍂 Create a meal for your loved ones with all the home-grown food you may have produced in your garden and herb garden.
🍂 This is the last opportunity of the year to enjoy the outdoors, while there is still some warmth, so if you haven’t already done so,go on picnics,walks,bike rides and visits to the beach. Go out and collect fallen seeds from nearby fields, parks and paths and plant them ready for next Imbolc.
🍂 This is a perfect time for you to create your broom, gathering old twigs, reeds and wood which are easy to find at Lammas. They’re an amazing magical tool and a representation of fulfillment and home.
🍂 Perform Lammas harvesting rituals to honour the sun god for the last time.
🍁ALTAR IDEAS🍁
Light gold,yellow,brown,orange and black candles to represent the earth changing from green to brown,autumnal colours, and black for the darker days arriving.
Tie ribbons and drape cloth at your altar, in the colours of gold,yellow, orange and brown. You can also wear these colors to honor the Sabbat.
Scatter relevant grains from the harvest to honour the fulfillment you feel at this time of the year: wheat,corn,onion,oats,barley and rye.
Sunflowers are now at their growing peak.Potted marigolds are wonderful to grow at your altar too.
Place your corn mother or corn dolly at your altar.
🍁 FOOD AND DRINK🍁
Home-made bread made from wheat,corn,rye and oats
Fresh berries and fresh fruit from the recent harvest
Fruity berry wines
Home-grown vegetables and fruits
Sweetcorn,popcorn,corn on the cob, any corn-related produce
Apples,apple cider and apple cake
🍁CRYSTALS🍁
Relevant crystals to carry around with you this time of the year, to meditate with, to use in divination and spell work and to place at your altar are:
Citrine
Clear Quartz
Aventurine
Golden Topaz
Cat’s Eye
🍁HERBS,FLOWERS,GRAINS AND BERRIES🍁
Herbs,flowers and anything that has come from the recent harvest. As with all of the Sabbaths,you can dry these herbs at your altar, around this time,for future use. They’re amazing to use for cooking and making teas (depending on what they are and if they’re edible)as well as using for magical workings.
All grains
Meadowsweet
Mint
Heather
Sloes
🍁INCENSE🍁
Good incense to use during casting circles, burning at your altar around Lammas time and for cleansing and consecrating, as well as magical workings, are:
Sandalwood
Rose
Camomile
Mint
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