LAMMAS celebrating the first harvest

Sunday is August 1st and for Pagans, it is the holiday of Lammas, or first harvest.

We have personally, finished out first harvest and have just now planted the second crop, so it's time to celebrate, and that we will be doing. We are taking off tomorrow to go camping with some of our Pagan friends. So I won't be around on Sunday to post about Lammas and it's meanings so I am going to go ahead and put it out there for all who are interrested to read about.

The following is stuff I have gotten from other sites (links included) because they explain it much better than I can.

Blessed Be!


Lammas is a Neo-Pagan holiday, often called Lughnasadh, celebrating the first harvest and the reaping of grain. It is a cross-quarter holiday halfway between the Summer Solstice (Litha) and the Autumnal Equinox (Mabon). In the northern hemisphere, Lammas takes place around August 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Leo in the tropical zodiac, while in the southern hemisphere Lammas is celebrated around February 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Aquarius. On the Wheel of the Year, it is opposite Imbolc, which is celebrated on February 2nd in the northern hemisphere, and late July / early August in the southern hemisphere.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas



If anything, the days are hotter now than they were in early Summer. These are the best days for trips to the beach and back yard barbecues. Meat prices are lower now, especially beef. This is the time to enjoy a thick steak. The really good sweet corn, the kind that melts in your mouth, has just begun to arrive in the supermarket. Since the seasonal changes at this time are more subtle, it is even more important that we celebrate the festival. We need to bring the cycles of the Universe into manifestation within our own minds, by demonstrating what we may not see.

The mental/emotional indications of the changing seasons are more obvious now than the physical ones. The air is filled with anticipation of the coming fall, of the approaching return to school and of the cooler weather to come. It is also a time of sadness, as the knowledge sets in that the good times of Summer will soon be over. There is a bit of "haste to have fun" before it comes to an end.

http://www.cyberwitch.com/wychwood/Temple/lammas.htm



We will return on Sunday, tired, and probably sun burned, but we will have had fun in the sun and we will know that the wheel of the year is about to turn again and before we know it, we will be celebrating Autumn!