Northern Hemisphere: August 1
Southern Hemisphere: February 2
This holiday is the first of the three harvest holidays. The work of the spring and summer is finally paying off in the first harvest. It is known as the time when the plants of spring wither and drop their fruits or seeds for our use as well as to ensure future crops.
As autumn begins, the Sun God enters his old age, but is not yet dead. The God symbolically loses some of his strength as the Sun rises farther in the South each day and the nights grow longer.
The Sun King, now Dark Lord, gives his energy to the crops to ensure life while the Mother prepares to give way to her aspect as the Crone.
Wheat weaving, such as the making of corn dollies, is traditional. Bread is baked and the altar is decorated with fruits and vegetables of the harvest.
Other names for Lammas include Lughnasadh, Harvest Tide, and August Eve.
Correspondences
Blessing or Second Mead moon
Full moon
Mother Goddesses
Colours
Red, Gold, Orange, Green
traditional Foods
First Harvest Fruit, Apples, Grains, Breads, Berries, Potatoes
herbs
Hollyhock, Heather, Sloe
Incense
Rose, Sandalwood
same as oils below
Oils
rose, jasmine, carnation, lilac, gardenia
Sacred Gemstone
Carnelian.
Gemstones
Citrine, Amber, Tourmaline, Yellow Diamond, Peridot
Deities:
Tammuz, Demeter, Persephone, Cerridwen, Faunus
Focus of Lammas:
Now is the time to teach what you have learned,
to share the fruits of your achievements with the world.
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