Blessed Lammas

"Lammas marks the middle of summer and beginning of the harvest season. Lammas is considered a time of thanksgiving and is the first of the three Pagan harvest festivals. The Sun's strength begins to wane and the plants of spring begin to wither and drop their fruits or seeds to ensure future crops."

Lammas has arrived and its time to start enjoying the fruits of our labor, but its not time to let up as this is only the first of the harvest. Now is the time to start preparing for the hard winter ahead. But do take some time to enjoy whats come to frutation.

The goddess has been good to us this Lammas season. We've worked our butts off to get our house in order and keep it clean for prospective buyers. It finally paid off!! Thursday evening our agent came by with paperwork to sign and tell us closing is on the 18th.. Perfect, as we're leaving for VT in the wee hours of the 19th!!

Ceres is the goddess I choose to look to for this holiday as she is the goddess of grain. A statue of her sits atop our lovely VT State Capitol Building.


I'll also leave you with my favorite harvest song and a poem..

and the lyrics:


Harvest Chant .. Starhawk

Our hands will work for peace and justice
Our hands will work to heal the land
Gather 'round the harvest table
Let us feast and bless the land

Under the Harvest Moon by Carl Sandburg

Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.

Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

May you never hunger, may you never thirst