Celebrate Lunar Lammas, First Harvest is here!

By the Mystery Way of the 13 moons, Lammas, or what I call First Harvest on my own solitary path, is here! For pagans, our traditional Harvest season kicks off with Lammas, also known in the Celt influenced tradition as Lughnasa, on August 1. It lasts until Samhain, or Final Harvest. On the Women’s Mystery…

Prayer. Dark Moon, Before 1st Harvest.

It is July again, dark moon. Full she comes who brings the high tide, I float amid on my back watching oh the mists, as they have all year overtake, hold and quake, part and depart. Clear. They dance in relation.  Two cranes make noises upon arrival every morning the swelter of green heat.  The…

Lunar Lammas Wishing Moon

Happy Lunar Lammas you guys! As promised, this includes a small ritual for “Wishing Moon.” In my gravel driveway driveway flowers have sprung up. They are stray vincas that germinated beyond the pots where they were originally planted years ago and now bloom at random all over the driveway! This morning I was picking some,…

New Moon & First Harvest: Lunar Lammas-tide

Corn Dolly, from my garden corn harvest, 2017 Greetings, and happy, blessed harvest season, friends. Today’s dark moon, as all dark moons, suspends us in a sense of timelessness. Mama moon’s magnetizing stillness occurs simultaneously at a station on the wheel of the year when stored light from the season of growth maximizes itself into abundant…