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[fae-sidhe]

Celebrating Lughnasadh:

Lughnasadh, also known as Lúnasa, Lùnastal, Luanistyn or Lammas, is a Gaelic festival of the first harvest, which also corresponds with other European early harvest festivals. It is held on the 1st of August, halfway between the Summer Solstice (Litha) and the Autumn Equinox (Mabon).

The festival is named after the Celtic god Lugh, and part of the festival is often offering some of the first harvest’s bounty in gratitude, and feasting or athletic competitions. Historically, journeys to sacred wells or holy shrines, or climbing mountains or hills have been popular, and in some places are still observed. Lugh is often seen as a personification of the first harvest, or the corn itself, and he is sometimes recast as folkloric figures such as John Barleycorn.

 Lughnasadh colours: gold, orange, yellow, green, light brown

 Lughnasadh crystals: amber, citrine, aventurine, peridot

 Lughnasadh foods: Bread, corn, soup, root vegetables, berries, mead, rice, barely, nuts, seasonal fruits, roasted meats, honey, beer

 Ideas for Lughnasadh celebrations:

Bake bread! Baking bread is one of the most traditional ways of celebrating this festival, and the first of the grains have been harvested. Consider baking different types of loaves, experiment with plaiting the dough or drawing designs on the top. Add seasonal berries, nuts or seeds to the dough to add flavour and interest

Have a picnic with friends and family – with lots of bread!

Go on a walk up a mountain or hill, or visit a sacred place such as a shrine, holy well, stone circle or burial mound (or just somewhere sacred to you if none of those are available)

Play games with friends or family, have a sports contest such as a running race or a tug of war

Make a donation of food to your local food bank or donate money to a charity

Hold your own Lughnasnadh ritual, light a fire and offer some food to the god Lugh and thank him for your harvest, and feel gratitude in knowing that all your efforts are coming to fruition

Make corn dollies, instructions for lots of interesting designs can be found online, or make sculptures and decorations out of salt dough

Light a candle and make a list of all that you are thankful for, and meditate upon this

Go on a foraging trip, look for early apples, plums, berries and edible fungi (ensure you are certain of what you are harvesting before you eat it!)

A blessed Lughnasadh to all, however you chose to celebrate it, and may your August be fruitful, prosperous and full of joy :)

[songsparrowwitch]

🌿Lammas Activities🌿

Lammas (also called Lughnasadh) is a sabbat from the Wheel of the Year that is celebrated on August 1st to mark the beginning of the harvest season

🌿 Bake! Cooking and sharing food is a great activity for any sabbat, and cooking bread, desserts, meat, and enjoying fruits and vegetables is a great way to celebrate Lammas! 🌿 Enjoy nature! Fall is coming next, so enjoy the fresh air while you can. Invite friends and family on a nature walk or picnic or you can go yourself and embrace the beauty that nature has to offer! Visit a lake, a park, go on a trail, or whatever you want to connect with nature! 🌿 Take care your plants! This is the beginning of the harvest season. Take extra care of your plants and maybe even give them a treat: new soil, a new pot, fresh water, or fertilizer. If it’s time to harvest some fruits or veggies, do so!  🌿 Decorate your altar and/or home! Colors, plants, grains, wreaths, animal prints, and candles are some great ways to decorate your home and/or altar for Lammas! 🌿 Do some crafts! Making crafts is a great way to have fun on Lammas, especially if you’re celebrating with kids! Making corn dolls and corn wheels are a few of the many fun ways to celebrate! Plus, when spring rolls around, you can bury the corn doll or corn wheel in a new garden to help your plants grow. 🌿 Prosperity magic! Lammas is the ideal time to perform prosperity magic, so if you have any prosperity spells hidden in your grimoire or book of shadows, take those out and work some magic! 🌿 Work on your book of shadows or grimoire! A relaxing way to end the day would be to write a few pages in your book, whether you write in spells, information, or a journal entry. 🌿 Finish some projects! If you have some projects nearing an end, Lammas would be a great time to finish those or to make more progress if you can! Not every goal needs to be achieved, but dedicating your time and effort to finishing a few would be a great Lammas activity. 🌿 Make a bonfire! Invite friends and family to a bonfire! While you sit around the fire, share some of your bad or unnecessary habits and how you plan to change or get rid of those habits so you can have renewed strength. If you’re a secret witch, you can just light a candle in your room and privately journal your reflection!

[thebutterflybabe]

TheButterflyBabe.com - By removing the scales from this Sunset Moth I have revealed the underlying membrane of its wing where the beautiful iridescent coloring can still be seen.

[mommamumu]

We're all iridescent underneath the scales.

[mommamumu]

Magickal Properties of Chocolate

Latin Name:Theobroma cacao

Gender:Feminine

Elements:

White Chocolate: Water

Milk Chocolate: Water, Earth

Dark Chocolate: Earth, Fire

Cacao Nibs: Fire

Planets:

White Chocolate: Venus

Milk Chocolate: Venus, Earth

Dark Chocolate: Earth, Moon

Cacao Nibs: Earth, Sun, Uranus

Signs:

White Chocolate: Pisces, Aquarius

Milk Chocolate: Cancer, Libra

Dark Chocolate: Scorpio, Virgo, Aries

Cacao Nibs: Scorpio, Virgo

Chakras:

White Chocolate: Heart

Milk Chocolate: Heart

Dark Chocolate: Heart, Sacral

Cacao Nibs: Sacral, Root

Magickal Properties:

White Chocolate: Friendship, Self-love, Fun

Milk Chocolate: Friendship, Self-love, Nurturing, Love, Balance, Fun, Raises emotional energy

Dark Chocolate: Love, Romance, Grounding, Prosperity

Cacao Nibs: Grounding, Prosperity, Ancestors

Medicinal Properties:

For medicinal purposes, the higher the cacao, the more beneficial it will be to your health. Unsweetened cocoa and cacao nibs are the best for increasing health.

AntioxidantHormonal + neurological happiness

Increases memory

Longevity

Lowers cholesterol levels

Reduces risk of stroke

Strengthens immune system

Warnings:The sweeter the chocolate, the worse it is for you. If you are diabetic, be careful when eating processed chocolate.

Copyright 2016 Jennifer “Aurora Moone” McDonald / All Rights Reserved.

[mommamumu]

Litha Body Oil

This oil contains the essence of the Summer Soltice and smells like the Sun; warm and fresh!

1/2 oz glass bottle

8 drops of Lavender Essential Oil

8 drops of Orange Essential Oil

5 drops of Lemongrass Essential Oil

2 drops of Rosemary Essential Oil

carrier oil (I used Castor, but any natural carrier oil should work)

Small Amber crystal

Small Tiger's Eye crystal

Pinch of Lavender flower buds

Magickal Herbal Correspondences

Lavender: healing, wisdom and rest

Orange: attraction, success and prosperity

Lemongrass: balance, calm, uplifting

Rosemary: purification, banishing and protection

Magickal Crystal Correspondences

Amber: sensuality, creativity and clairesentience

Tiger's Eye: courage, strength and power

[mommamumu]

[mommamumu]

Litha Candle Spell

"With an open heart, I embrace the night

May the magick of Litha shine tonight

For this Litha Eve, twilight glows

I welcome transition from which my heart knows

I release all ego to the Sun, Moon, and Earth

My spirit rejuvenated by Nature’s hearth!"

Practice

Write spell onto paper of choice.

While holding the paper, bring the words to life via emotion. Remember, the secret to magick and manifestation is in the emotional vibration. The more you FEEL and VIBRATE as if you already possess your desire, the quicker you will pull that intentional vibration to you. So for a few good moments, or longer if possible, meditate and imagine the emotion and effects your transformation will cause; how wonderful you’ll feel, how many possibilities will open for you and how much lighter you’ll feel and live once you release all that weighs you down. The more imaginative and emotional, the better.

After meditating on that, place the paper powered with your intention into a cauldron or open flame. Revere your intention rise to the skies.

Rest assured that your intention is on its way to "being". However, keep in mind that the more you self-fulfill your prophecy via emotional vibration, the quicker it’ll arrive. So dive into that successful emotion as often as possible!

Pictured are the Litha candles I’ve created as gifts for my Litha Celebration. The spell was written on parchment paper and wax-sealed around it to hold it in place. 

Alternatively, instead of burning the paper, one can hold a candle and infuse it with the power of the words and vibrational intent. After this, light the candle and envision the power of your spell burn into the Universe.

Happy Castings!

[mommamumu]

[mommamumu]

Litha Foretelling

Flowers and fairies and food, oh my!

Creations

Guests are encouraged to bring daisy- like flowers to create their own floral crown

Litha oils will be made using essential oils, crystals, and herbs

Fairy lanterns will be crafted to life

Nourishment

Tea sandwiches made with vegan pesto cream cheese

Rose water lemonade

Lavender cupcakes (vegan too of course! )

[mommamumu]

Litha 2018 Invite

[mommamumu]

Cauldron Dreamin'

[mommamumu]

It all started with a cauldron...

This Summer Solstice sets off what I hope to be a lifelong tradition of celebrating the Wheel of the Year.

Dreaming of the magic within a Sabbat celebration among other witchy women, with a desire to connect deeper to the universe and its available energies, is something I've been doing for a while. Granted, I lack some social skills and desire to seek out a group so I'm hoping that my beautiful cousins and friends can cope and sit through some Litha and fairy talk for a few hours this Thursday as I conjure my dreams to life.

So the cauldron. She kinda just set this whole thing off. I'd been using a much smaller one for the usual incense burning, but kept thinking and wanting a larger one for bigger and better things. You see, I love the idea of large fires and cooking large soups and potions and tonics and all kinds of celestial brews in a monstrous cauldron over open fire.. but because I don't have the means for all that, I settled on the idea of getting a larger one. But what else would I do with it?

Can't really cook with an electric stove top, so I did what any other savvy woman would do; I YouTubed for ideas. That's when I found this:

And that was it. I knew I was missing out.

I kept missing out.. for months...because decided to let it find me. Kinda...

You see, there's this beautiful metaphysical store that I always visit (Five Sisters) that was selling a large-ish cauldron. Instinctively, I asked the store owner if they had a larger one but although she said no, she offered to place an order for one. And that was that. She arrived a few days later and now blesses our home with all her Momma Cauldron Wisdom.

Momma Cauldron Wisdom

Before it was associated to a scary wart-nosed witch, the cauldron was known as the heart and center of the home, family, and community. It was the source of food, warmth, family time, and healing.

Spiritually, the cauldron represents the center of creation; the origin of life and the womb of Momma Earth. Through the cauldron we create, we ignite, we cleanse, we offer, we cook, and we protect (among many other uses). And thanks to this cauldron in particular, the fire within me has been ignited and the desired to dive into the ancient gatherings has commenced.

The continual reminders of the power of the Divine Feminine within it is a beautiful thing too; for she is creator, destroyer and cauldron.

[mommamumu]

Design

The more I learn about myself through my natal chart, or better yet, the more my natal chart confirms my personality, the more I wonder how much control we have over ourselves?

For the sake of introductions, here’s a glimpse of my design.