Lammas / Lughnasadh

[qos]

Do you celebrate Lammas or Lughnasadh?

If so, what do you do?

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[oakmouse]

Lughnasadh, since I work with Lugh. *g*

Usually we celebrate with our druid grove: a ritual involving a fire (contained in a cauldron for safety, since we live in fire country), offerings, and a shared meal afterwards. We don't emphasize bread, we treat the day as a feast of Lugh in all his aspects.

When I do it as a personal celebration because the grove ritual falls on another day, I make offerings to Lugh, honor him in ritual, and serve a nice meal, often with fresh in-season produce.

[jcalanthe]

I do not - the time when I was doing ritual on the sabbats, some of the folks I was doing it with were in school & went back to their parents' for the summer, so we never did summer ritual.

Do you celebrate Lammas or Lughnasadh?

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Used to. Once my Circle had the most amazing meditation on the theme of Harvest and Abundance... Another time friends and I have done wonderful, simple ritual in the back yard, kind of a harvest/abundance thanksgiving, followed by a healthy dose of hot-tub and potluck...

think I won't get to this year unless I can do it on the 31st, since Lark Camp starts on t he 1st... not to mention we're moving out that day...

[sharpchick.livejournal.com]

I celebrate the Feast of the Green Corn in early August, usually trying for a weekend shortly after the first.

I usually celebrate this one alone. . . the group of pagans I meet with a couple of times a month usually goes with a group Lammas/Lughnasadh ritual, and so are accustomed to me doing my own thing. (Same with Beltaine, I'm celebrating my Planting Feast then, and it has gotten larger every year in terms of what I do. I put in my entire container garden this year during my ritual.)

I lay a fire in the middle of my garden altar - just a small one in the remains of a piece of Mexican pottery that was unfortunately dropped on a concrete surface and a big hunk popped out of the side. But it makes a dandy little firepit. The purpose of the fire is twofold. . .to take my prayers up to the Great Spirit, and to ritually light my cooking fire for the harvest, which I do by removing some ember and putting it in a censer to burn sage and cedar inside my house.

My feast is prepared of corn - last year, I tried a corn pudding and I think with the addition of a tad more brown sugar or molasses this time, I will really like the dish. I also steam an ear of corn to eat, and make offerings on the altar to the Great Spirit and all of creation for thanks that I have a harvest. . .I say out thanks out loud for each part of my harvest, material and spiritual. I also leave dried corn outside for the amazing variety of wildlife that comes to my garden.

This year, I am thinking of adding something else to my ritual - I think there are quite a few perfectly useable things around the cottage that others would get greater benefit from. So I am going to round those things up and share my harvest with others.

[die-uberfrau.livejournal.com]

I celebrate Lammas, more technically Loaf-Fest as the sacrifice of Frey to Hela to feed the Nine Worlds. This is strictly UPG-based but there does seem to be some historical background in the celebration of Harvest Home and John Barleycorn in England.

Because Frey is my patron, the celebration is *the* holiday of the year for me. Beltaine, Charming of the Plow, and Yule are also important, but Lammas is all about Frey.

Last year I made bread; I plan on doing that again this year. Last year we did a public ritual that had a mediocre turnout so this year we will do a private ritual at home and oracular work with Frey. I plan on privately observing His sacrifice and return, making offerings before the sacrifice and after His return. Bread is the main feast food; a good dark beer or ale is another, although I tend not to drink much outside the holidays.

You'll be privy to my Lammas write-up, however ;P

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

I look forward to reading it!

Although I've done some work with Freyja, I have to confess that I've known nothing of Frey except his name until I started reading your journal. I'm intrigued, and want to learn more.

[queenofhalves]

yes.

i sing songs and tell stories about lugh. then i examine my life for what needs to be sacrificed in order for me to grow. also, i usually eat cornbread.