M'anam Cara

08/08/2025

Lions Gate 8/8 Sirius in Orion - Dog days of summer etc...
But we are halfway between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox - So although these days Lammas is celebrated on the 1st August - according to the celestial calendar it falls yesterday and today.

02/08/2025

01/08/2025

Today is the 1st of August, marking Lughnasadh (pronounced Loo-nah-sah), the ancient Gaelic festival of the first harvest. Rooted in early agrarian traditions, this celebration is said to honour Lugh, the bright god of light, skill, the solar force, and rightful Kingship—whose name forms the core of the word.

Lughnasadh derives from Old Irish Lugnasad, meaning “assembly of Lugh (the light),” a time once marked by ritual gatherings, community games, and sacred offerings to celebrate the ripening of grain and the fruits of the year's labour.

The Gaelic deity Lugh is the personification of the pure, active, light principle. The light is the lion—strong, fearless, and protective. The lion is an age-old symbol of Kingship, leadership, and guardianship, and, in the Old languages of the British Isles, these ideals are held up as qualities well worth fighting for.

I am at Green Gathering and the Assembly of Light is getting organised to take positive and peaceful action to protect and defend true mutual community, civil liberties and the environment from the industrial war complex, the billionaire tec bros, ecology crushing economics or corporate greed in the Speakers Forum.

Happy Lughnasadh!

20/07/2025

16/07/2025

Forgive yourself
for what you had to do to survive.
Forgive yourself for who you were
before you knew better.

Forgive yourself
for being fallible, broken,
for being less than perfect.

Touch the earth
in your small humanness.
Feel the dirt beneath your feet,
between your fingers,
and how your tears water
the parched, cracked soil.

Forgive yourself
for not being more,
for not knowing more,
for learning through experience,
or the hard way.

For what you did to survive life’s winters,
across life’s thin ice.
For your mistakes.

You survived.
You are here.

And in the forgiveness,
let your hands reach down
to soothe your own broken heart,
and from there,
the broken hearts of others.

For we grow humble in our falls,
compassionate through our imperfection,
not our perfection.

Forgive yourself.
Let the weight of these lessons
hold you firmly
in their dark wisdom
to the earth —

And from there,
like a sky of shining lanterns,

set your soul free.

( ✍️ Rachel Alana Falconer )

Art : Christine Kellerman

10/07/2025

Tip - Tilt - Turn
Buck moon in Capricorn

A door closed
A window is opening