Hi! 🌙 So on July 31st/August 1st, at the time of Lughnasadh (or Lammas: "loaf mass"), we celebrate the first harvest - the grain harvest - and pause to acknowledge just how important that grain is to our sustenance and nourishment over the coming months. The first grain - the first loaf of bread - these are wonderful and important milestones in the wheel of the year. We are asked to give thanks and express gratitude for the abundance we are fortunate enough to experience. Why Lughnasadh? This Sabbat seems to me to shine a light on the way the individual and community pagan spiritual experience acts as a microcosm to the greater experience of the Earth as a whole entity. We get a gentle reminder of the cycle of birth and death and rebirth, particularly characterised by the involvement of Lugh, god of light and fire. As the embodiment of the Sun, here the god is beginning to show signs of his waning power. We have passed midsummer where he was at his height and now he is givi