Naturalistic Paganism
Happy Summer Thermstice/Lammas!
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.
The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches (+ online Lunasa Rituals)!
Lunasa is the start of the prime campfire and stargazing season – bringing the unique combination of both warmth and longer nights “Sunlit Summer”, see the 8 season names here. Lunasa arrives again, but it’s not like last year, nor the year before. Why not? Because the many nested and interwoven cycles of our solar system make each stargazing season unique, and hence make every Lunasa unique! Last year the moon was in the way, mostly washing out the Perseids. This year, however, the moon is busy with a solar eclipse, giving great Perseids August 13! Remember that eclipses always happen in pairs, and so there is a lunar eclipse on August 27. Plus, here are a a whole bunch of online Lunasa ritual opportunities!
Now is your chance – the Suntree Retreat is a life-changing event for Naturalistic Pagans!
Join us for a LIVE gathering of Atheopagans (a type of Naturalistic Pagan) at the magnificent La Foret retreat center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, August 21- August 24, 2026!
Presented by The Atheopagan Society, this 4-day, 3-night retreat will feature workshops, rituals and lots of socializing time in beautiful spaces and around the fire. The facility includes a magnificent meeting space, the Ponderosa Lodge; a fire circle; a beautiful labyrinth and more. I was there for the previous Atheopagan retreats in 2022 and 2024 – what a treasured part of my life! I’m definitely coming back for this one! Plus you can be there for my workshop using molten metal for divination! Info here, and the link to register here!
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Read MoreHappy Summer Solstice! Check out these Stonehenge Livestreams!
Happy Summer Solstice! In case you missed the Stonehenge Summer Solstice Sunrise simulcast, you may be able to catch the Stonehenge Summer Solstice *Sunset* simulcast! You can catch the Solstice Sunset livestream from Stonehenge, with coverage from 3:30 – 5:30 pm EDT *today*. (Also, it is Winter Solstice/Yule for those in the Southern Hemisphere). Any Summer Solstice is the peak of the Sun’s presence on Earth, and this year we are just passing the peak of the 11 year solar activity cycle, with our time for the best auroras until 2034 drawing to a close within about a year from now.
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