Showing posts with label harvest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harvest. Show all posts

August 01, 2010

Lammas tide

1st August Lammas or Lughnasadh.
This explains far better than I can and so does Wiki

To me it is harvest time, a time of abundance and fruitfulness.
We are reaping the rewards of our planting. Each day a little more fruit and veg are ready and ripe.



The garden is lush and overgrown in parts, a colourful array of flowers.
As I sit among the plants spinning my threads of gold and amber I become a part of the great mystery for a little while.
I touch the inner realms and it is so beautiful.


The buddleia is covered in butterflies and bees when the sun shines. You can barely see these flowers as the insects land to drink the nectar and harvest the pollen to take back to the hives.



In some ways Lammas is also a farewell. The long days of summer shorten and have done since summer solstice.


Some days I smell Autumn on the wind and taste Winter chills that are just around the corner.
But there is no regret, it is a natural part of the wheel. As it turns we experience all of its beauty and majesty. The cold balances the heat, the wet balancing the dry.
Lammas is a chance to see how well our plans and intentions have done also. Our inner harvest.
A time to reflect on what worked and what didn't, and why.

Time to take stock.
But on all levels spiritual and mundane it is also time to sit back and enjoy the Earth's abundance and beauty. To enjoy the harvest in all its glory.
To smell the lavender flowers and watch the bees so busy today.
Happy Lammas

July 30, 2009

A change of name and Lammas/Lughnasadh

Those of you whose blogs I have commented on will notice that it doesn't say amber moggie now but A flagrant mind.
I was going to have a separate blog for my more spiritual posts leaving this one for my crafts. After talking it over with a friend of mine I've decided to keep the one blog.
Far less confusing for me, let alone everyone else:)
I am going to keep the new name though. i like it:)
So Lammas is nearly upon us, just a few days to go. How is it for you?
For me it is a weird time, lots of stuff coming up in dreams and lots to work through. A time of reflection on what is, what was and what will be. Lammas is a balancing time in my life, a balance between who I am and how I live my life and on the other side what I need to let go of to honour my place in this world.
Harvest, that is what Lammas is. Loaf mass, a time when the wheat is ripe and the bread can be baked. What kind of harvest? That all depends on the person and how they approach it.
Lammas is also known as Lughnasadh, sacred to the God Lugh. When we harvest it is a completion time, time when projects are finished and we can see the results. From this comes new growth a new turn on the wheel. A time to let go of things and honour their passing while grasping a new spark to work with.
There is so much negativity around at the moment, what with swine flu, the economy to name but two. Maybe part of my Lammas acknowledgement will ask for these things to be finished and for a positive outcome . I will meditate on it over the next few days.
August is a good month in many ways, I have lots of birthdays to celebrate with people including Mr Mogs significant one and a less significant one for me.
The joy of a festival comes from within, the knowledge that my celebrations echo ones that have taken place since time began. I may not celebrate in the same way as the old ones, that is part of the spiral of life, ever changing ever growing. But I have a link with the past in the fact that I do celebrate in my own way.
I am not sure what we will do to commemorate the harvest, watch this space.

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