08/01/2025
Today is Lammas, and it marks the beginning of the harvest season. Corn and wheat fields will be ripe and golden now, ready for reaping. The earth is going through a transition where darkness is slowly beginning to take over light, nights will slowly become longer and days shorter. Death is taking over life as flowers begin to die, trees will drop their fruits and leaves will begin to change color, and cold will slowly start taking over warmth as we head into Autumn.
Today is also known as Lughnasadh. In Celtic times, the day was a celebration of the great Sun God. It was a time of giving thanks to the Sun God for the harvest and giving offerings of bread, corn, and wheat to him. A bonfire would be built called a Lughfire where the offerings would be thrown into it.
Lammas is a time of personal reflection and our own personal harvest of our actions and deeds, events and experiences, and our gains and losses throughout this year. A time when we begin the cycle of reflection on that which is our life. At this time, we begin to reap what we have sown for all the hard work we have put in throughout the year.
The God of the Sun is the living Spirit of the corn or grain. As the corn is cut, so the God (The Green Man) is cut down also. He surrenders his life so that others may be sustained by the grain, so that life can continue. He is both eaten as the bread and is then reborn as the seed returns to the earth. Death and rebirth. Everything dies and everything is reborn. This is our whisper of immortality and the wonderful bittersweet of Lammas.
Lammas is a time of excitement and magic. The natural world is thriving around us, and yet the knowledge that everything will soon die looms in the background. Now It is a good time to rid yourself of all that is old to allow in the new.
Hoof and horn,
Hoof and horn,
All that dies shall be reborn,
Corn and grain,
Corn and grain,
All that falls shall rise again.
Lammas Blessings, may the Universe continue to watch over you.
Blessed Be!
