Happy Lughnasadh! (Or Lammas, if you prefer)
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Pronounced Loo-NAS-ah, or you could go by the more popular name Lammas, if you prefer. Personally I think they're both fun to say. 😄
Either way the ancient celebration of the first harvest is upon us this weekend. Historically, Lammas/Lughnasadh celebrated the first wheat harvest. Thus while all abundance and community was celebrated, it particularly featured fresh loaves of bread.
Here's 5 ideas for celebrating Lammas:
Bake Bread
Perhaps the most universally agreed upon celebration of Lammas is the baking of fresh bread. But if you don't like baking or just don't have time...
Visit a Farmer's Market
And celebrate their harvest labors! Buy fresh bread, corn and any other grains you can find. Berries and wildflowers are also traditional.
Hold a Harvest Dinner
Another of the most universal celebrations- feasting with family and friends. Whether you feed all your friends or you just organize a potluck, there's no right or wrong way to celebrate the season with loved ones.
Donate to a Food Bank
Share the abundance with others. Meditate on abundance and blessing as you do so. And remember- while it's gratifying to give cans of food to food banks, it is far more useful to donate financially.
Create a Lammas Altar
The altar of the first grain harvest is likely a delicious one. You can put any sort of abundance and harvest related symbols, but especially consider:
- Wildflowers,
- A bit of bread
- Grain or flour
- A ritual sickle or other iron instrument
- Corn dolly (purchased or made yourself)
- Lammas candles
- Lammas incense
- Lammas oil (to dress your magickal items and yourself)
Leave a comment below and let us know how you celebrate the first grain harvest!
May abundance follow you all year long. So mote it be.
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We welcome the Hatch chile harvest! Stoke up a grill/smoke of pecan wood, roast and peel the chiles to make salsa, enchila sauce or chile rellenos! We will also grill corn and whatever else someone wants to throw on the grill. It’s too hot for us to want to bake in Texas, so we don’t make the traditional “Corn Man” in the oven…instead we cut man-shaped forms from tortillas, so we can hold the “John Barleycorn Must Die” mock burial.