Celebrations

Heat! Productivity! Success! Growing Darkness!  These and many other themes join with the baking of bread and early harvest celebrations of Lunasa.  Maybe a good theme for this year’s Lunasa is our moon.  It brings us a wonderful full moon to coincide with Lunasa this year – as if to join in the celebration of the fullness of productivity and life – and then this same moon graciously steps back just in time for the Perseid Meteor shower!

Also very fitting that the Oppenheimer movie came out within days of Lunasa – I’ve often linked the power of atomic explosions to the power of Lunasa in presentations, because they both feature power, and happened in August.

Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were recently published (along with many online rituals you can join, some of which are still ahead of us).  For my family, celebrations with our annual Lunasa blueberry harvest, baking bread, and evening ritual are coming up!   As a special Lunasa treat, check out this Lammas music from Bart Everson, and – like on every Sabbat – the additional music published on this blog, here on the practices hub page (simple page down to the Sabbat you want).  It could be part of a ritual, solitary observation, or just having around now.

For some of us, the celebrations will be later this week – the actual midpoint between the Solstice and the Equinox is August 7th.  However you are celebrating (including Imbolc celebrations in the Southern Hemisphere), may your be celebration be blessed.