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Here we share news and updates about Moon Books.
While the start of the grain harvest is celebrated on August 1 in the Wheel of the Year festival called Lammas, or Lughnasadh, the harvest continues throughout the month.
The start of harvest was a big celebration when people relied on each year’s crops for food to last through winter. The festival of the first fruits is often called Lammas in England.
Lammas is a harvest festival when grain crops are brought in. It can traditionally be celebrated by baking bread. Whether you have the skills, ingredients, or inclination for cooking or not, the post offers a guided visualisation you can do, from the book Pagan Portals – Guided Visualisations.
In England, July is a wonderful month for enjoying the sights and scents of flower gardens, as well as for foraging in hedgerows. Here are a few of the magical blooms you might find.
If you follow the Wheel of the Year, July can seem a fallow month. It falls between Summer Solstice on June 21, and Lammas at the start of August and doesn’t contain any of the eight main festivals that many modern pagans celebrate. But there’s lots to celebrate in July including seasonal folk customs and festivals in many traditions.
In June where I live, in England, flowers are abundant. Wheel of the Year celebrations usually reflect what’s happening in nature, with seasonal flora on the altar, and crafting and spellwork using what’s growing, blooming, ripening or going to seed.
The Summer Solstice – it’s the biggie in terms of festivals for many pagans. It’s a celebration of the sun at its height. We can hope to get outdoors and celebrate the longest day of the year with everything from solemn ritual to wild partying.
This is the first in a series of posts I’m writing for the Moon Books Blog on the theme of the Wheel of the Year. The idea is that eventually the posts will be compiled and edited into the chapters for a book: Pagan Portals – Wheel of the Year.
