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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. What better time to remember the success of the Apollo program, landing a human on the moon 50 years ago! With Apollo’s sister, Artemis, now stepping in, hopefully humans will be on the moon again soon.
As a special Lunasa treat, check out this Lammas music from Bart Everson. It could be part of a ritual, solitary observation, or just having around now.
Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were precently published. For my family, celebrations with our annual blueberry harvest and evening ritual will be this Sunday. 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!
Wow! Just a few days ago, we celebrated one of humanity’s most stunning accomplishments – landing live humans on the Moon (and bringing them back safety). Though Earth’s seasons aren’t felt on the Moon, the Moon landing and Lunasa are now linked for me. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Autumn cross-quarter or “Summer Thermstice” is celebrated on August 1 as Lughnasadh/Lammas/Lunasa. How will you be celebrating it? Astronomically, the event occurs on August 7th this year. Read More
50 Years ago today we Walked on the Moon! Happy Moon Landing Day! [Stardust, Contemplating]
Happy Moon Landing Day!! Many of the incredible aspects of this historic event can be found in the earlier Moon Landing post, including ritual and celebration ideas for today’s 50 year anniversary.
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The World Needs Her Witches, by Phyllis Curott, Witch and Wiccan Priestess
A response to David Brooks New York Times 6/11/19 Op Ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/astrology-occult-millennials.html
David Brooks is right to quote from the Tara Isabella Burton essay in The American Interest, “Wicca … is technically the fastest-growing religion in America.” But he misses the point.
Can you believe that we Walked on the Moon 50 Years ago?! Here are some Ritual ideas for the Anniversary on July 20. [Stardust, Contemplating]
Some crabs migrate based on the Moon. Oysters close. Worms mate. All these and so many more are ruled by the Moon. For billions of years, the Moon has changed life on Earth, and our Ancestors evolved in it’s light, looking up at, even worshiping, this unreachable goddess. Our gaze far exceeded our reach – until that momentous day 50 years ago, when Earth life strode on the Moon!
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