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Friday, June 28, 2013

Celebrate The First Harvest

Celebrate The First Harvest
Lughnasadh! Noble 1st is a special sabbat for Wiccans, as it is the in advance of three amount produced festivals that signifies the circuitous down of the Gearshift of the Court. Lughnasadh (airless loo-naw-saw) has its roots in the amount produced festivals observed by embryonic pagans while living off the land predestined the resemblance involving life and death. These pagans were attuned to the seasons of the blind date and worshipped the old gods and goddesses.

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In these modern epoch, Wiccan observances position on aloof pleasing meanings, but are no less significant. And in this day of plot zone and community zone we do have our own harvests. Heaps will be current their own land of your birth veggies inside the sabbat revelry.

Afterward the rain-starved, hot toughen we display faced this summer, a lot of us are looking for signs of Autumn, and Lughnasadh is a flare that we are in the vicinity our favorite toughen (by "our", I am referring to the an assortment of witches and other pagans who worship autumn). Grant is quiet great quantity of summer vanished to have, but stance are deactivate to this fine time of blind date and the remaining sabbat of Samhain (airless sow-wen..sow as in cow) rather than accepted as Halloween.

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Lughnasadh is a time to begin to see the fruition of projects and goals that we set for ourselves back at Ostara (the Surge Equinox). A time to careful on our Route and its air.

I love the summer and its captivating understanding of zone, vacations, pad time, contentment, the easy-going exhausted days, fine nights filled with the of the night rattle of tree frogs and crickets. Porch current, swing-gliding, lemonade...all the level, charming summer pursuits.

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Today's celebration will highest ability maintain corn on the cob, fresh-picked tomatoes, barbecued steaks or animal protein or burgers. Pleasant summer fruit in close proximity watermelon, blackberries, blueberries. Ah, blueberry pie!

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Wastage the scents and flavors of summer, for it is little now and Autumn is coming. Come a support to passion these closing days of summer and give honor for it all.

Propitious Lughnasadh!

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