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Summer Harvest Happy Lughnasadh! :>
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Summer Harvest Happy Lughnasadh! :>
2026 WITCHES CALENDAR
Here's a handy list of the 2026 dates for the solstices, quarter days, and full and new moons.
Dates and times for all events are calculated for the Northern Hemisphere. Adjust for your location as needed and check the DarkSky Placefinder to see what special events will be visible in your area.
SOLSTICES AND HARVESTS:
February 1st-2nd - Imbolc / Candlemas
March 19th-23rd - Ostara / Spring Equinox.
April 30th-May 1st - Beltane / May Day
June 20th - Litha / Midsummer / Summer Solstice.
August 1st - Lammas / Lughnasadh / Summer Harvest.
September 20th-23rd - Mabon / Autumn Equinox
October 31st - Samhain
December 21st-January 1st - Yule / Winter Solstice.
FULL MOONS:
January 3rd - Wolf Moon ♋ (Supermoon)
February 1st - Snow Moon ♌
March 3rd - Worm Moon ♍ (Lunar Eclipse)
April 1st - Pink Moon ♎
May 1st - Flower Moon ♏
May 31st - Blue Moon ♐️
June 29th - Strawberry Moon ♑️
July 29th - Thunder Moon (aka Buck Moon) ♒️
August 28th - Sturgeon Moon (aka Corn Moon) ♓️ (Lunar Eclipse)
September 26th - Harvest Moon ♎️
October 26th - Hunter's Moon (aka Blood Moon) ♈
November 24th - Frost Moon (aka Beaver Moon) ♉ (Supermoon)
December 24th - Cold Moon ♊ (Supermoon)
NEW MOONS:
January 18th ♑️
February 17th ♒️
March 19th ♓️
April 17th ♈️
May 16th ♉️
June 15th ♊️
July 14th ♋️
August 12th ♌️
September 11th ♍️
October 10th ♎
November 9th ♏️
December 9th ♋️
SPECIAL CELESTIAL EVENTS:
March 3rd - Worm Moon Total Lunar Eclipse.
August 12th - Total Solar Eclipse and Perseid Meteor Shower.
August 27-28th - Partial Lunar Eclipse.
November 17-18 - Leonid Meteor Shower.
November 24th - Frost Moon Supermoon.
December 13-14th - Geminid Meteor Shower.
December 24th - Cold Moon Supermoon.
as usual - i'm collecting infos together for myself, but if anyone finds it interesting as well - you're all welcome here at me💗🌙💫 credits to the hour of witchery
Wheel of the Year Masterlist 🌱
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Yule (Winter Solstice): December 20–23 ❄️🎄
Imbolc: February 1–2 🕯️🥛🐑
Ostara (Spring Equinox): March 20–23 🐇🥚🐣
Beltane: April 30 – May 1 🔥🌸🧚
Litha (Summer Solstice): June 20–23 ☀️🐎🍓
Lughnasadh / Lammas: August 1–2 🍞🌾🌽
Mabon (Autumn Equinox): September 21–24 🍎🍇🍁
Samhain: October 31 – November 1 🕸️🦇🎃
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To everyone who reads my posts, thank you so much, it really means a lot :D🌼🍷♡
Wheel of the Year collages from last year :)
Colors doesn't look fully accurate sadly
What Is Lughnasadh (Lúnasa)?
Lúnasa (pronounced LOO-nuh-suh) is the Irish harvest festival that is now celebrated on August 1, and was considered the first day of autumn in the ancient Irish year.1 It opens the grain harvest, the point where the hungry weeks of late summer give way to the first food from the new crop.1 The name comes from the god Lugh; the older spelling is Lughnasadh. It's one of the four festivals of the Irish year, with Samhain, Imbolc, and Bealtaine.2 You'll also see it in the folk record as Garland Sunday, Reek Sunday and Crom Dubh's Sunday.
This article is meant to give an overview of the festival. Each part below has a fuller article behind it: the festival's pre-Christian origins, the dark harvest figure Crom Dubh, and the folk customs that lasted into living memory.
Lammas vs Lughnasadh
You will sometimes see Lughnasadh and Lammas used interchangeably, however they are two different traditions. Lammas comes from the Old English hlāfmæsse, "loaf-mass": it is an Anglo-Saxon Christian rite in which a loaf baked from the first ripe grain was carried to church and blessed.3
Lammas was a church observance built around that blessed loaf; Lughnasadh was a public assembly with horse-racing and trade.45 What they share is the first-fruits moment, the same turn in the harvest year, which is why English speakers in Ireland sometimes used "Lammas" as a label for the native festival and the two ran together.
Modern Wicca adds a third sense, treating "Lammas" and "Lughnasadh" as interchangeable names for a single August 1 sabbat in a Wheel of the Year assembled in the 1950s.6
This guide follows the older Irish festival.
What Lughnasadh meant
Lúnasa was the threshold of plenty. The weeks before it were often the hungriest time of the year, when last year's stores ran low and there was little paid work until the cutting began.1 The festival opened the harvest; cutting corn or digging potatoes before it was considered improper, a mark of bad husbandry.1 The first food from the new harvest went into a festive meal, and people climbed the hills to pick the first ripe bilberries.1 The day marked the turn from scarcity to plenty.
The god Lugh and the assembly at Tailtiu
The festival is named for Lugh, one of the major Irish gods, who was also known across the Continental and British Celtic world as Lugus.27 The medieval tradition makes Lúnasa the funeral games that Lugh founded for his foster-mother Tailtiu, who died clearing a forest into farmland,8 and it places the great assembly at Tailtiu (Teltown, Co. Meath).5
How much of that reaches back to real pagan practice is uncertain. It's unclear how old the origin story is, and by the time we can see the festival clearly it was a Christian-era institution, with a church on the assembly ground.5 The roots are pagan; most of the visible history is Christian. The origins article spends some time going over the major theories and evidence.
Crom Dubh's Sunday
Across much of Irish-speaking Ireland the day carries a different name: Crom Dubh's. The name pairs crom, "bent or crooked," with dubh, "dark" or "black."9 In the folk legends, Crom Dubh is a pagan chieftain whose fierce bull submits tamely to St. Patrick before the chieftain himself converts.10 Recent scholarship traces this figure back through the written record to a medieval idol, Cenn Cruaich, rather than an ancient god of the harvest.9 The full story is in the Crom Dubh article.
How Lughnasadh was celebrated
The folk customs are the most durable part of the festival, recorded across Ireland into the twentieth century.1 People dug the first potatoes and ate them in a first-fruits meal, climbed hills to pick bilberries on "Garland Sunday," did rounds at holy wells, and swam their cattle and horses for protection.1 The biggest surviving tradition is the Croagh Patrick pilgrimage on Reek Sunday, the last Sunday of July.1 The folk traditions of Lúnasa covers the customs and how to mark the day now.
The Year in Ireland by Kevin Danaher ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, ↩︎ ↩︎
Lammas ↩︎
Lammas ↩︎
Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth by Mark Williams ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Wheel of the Year ↩︎
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz ↩︎
Celtic Gods and Heroes by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt ↩︎
"On the Origins and Development of Crom Dubh" by Claire Collins ↩︎ ↩︎
"Trespass and Building in the Lughnasa Legends" by Máire MacNeill ↩︎
for lady demeter 🌾
an offering for lady demeter, happy lammas <3
finally got around to redesigning the celestial and seasonal celebrations of the pagan year to make em more cryptid- happy belated litha folks!
