LAMMAS
August 1st
LAMMAS
August 1st
On this day, the Lammas is celebrated by Wiccans and Witches throughout the world. Lammas (also known as Lughnasadh, August Eve, and the First Festival of Harvest) marks the start of the harvest season and is the time when the fertility aspect of the sacred union of the Goddess and the Horned God is honored. The making of corn dollies (small figures fashioned from braided straw) is a centuries old Pagan custom which is carried on by many modern Witches as part of the Lammas Sabbat rite The corn dollies are placed on the Sabbat altar to represent the Mother Goddess who presides over the harvest. It is customary on each Lammas to make or buy a new corn dolly and then burn the old one from the past year for good luck.
On this day in the country of Macedonia, Neo-Pagans celebrate the Day of the Dryads, an annual nature festival dedicated to the maiden spirits who inhabit and rule over forests and trees. (Source: The Wicca Book of Days)
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Also, I want to wish my friend Sunny a very happy birthday! She just got through a Kidney Transplant - a very frightening ordeal - she's in high spirits and will be coming home very soon, thank the Goddess! Blessed Be!
