Naturalistic Paganism

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’s a great year for the Perseid Meteor shower – because the moon is busy making a solar eclipse!  You can see the solar eclipse very well if you are in Europe (check the times there – totality is awesome!), and if you are in the US, you can see a very tiny partial eclipse if you are Northeast of around Pennsylvania.  In any case, you can do eclipse magic when the eclipse happens on August 12th, around 1 pm EDT (here are eclipse rituals ready to go).  

Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were recently published (along with many online rituals you can join).  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.