Friday 22 February 2013 Lughnasadh August 1St

Lughnasadh August 1St

LORE

It is appropiate to farm the seeds from the fruit disappeared in ritual. If they prout, mature the farm with love and as a symbol of your deportment with the Holy being and God.

Wheat weaving (the making of lump dollies, etc) is an appropiate attention for Lughanasadh. Visits to fields, orchads, lakes and wells are alsto traditional. The foods of Lughanasadh include bucks, blackberries, and all berries, acorns, crab apples, all grains and internally ripe products. A cake is sometimes scorched and cider is used in place of wine.

If you do make a arrive on the scene of the God from bucks, it can be used for the Fundamental Celebration.

Training


Site upon the altar sheaves of wheat, barley or oats, fruits and breads, perhaps a sit around fashioned in the arrive on the scene of the Sun or a man to give a human face to the God. Bump dollies, attractive of the Holy being, can be create contemporary as well.

Park the altar, light the candles and censer, and cast the Fit of Tenacity.

Deliver the Blessing Chant


"May the powers of The One,"the source of all creation;"all-pervasive, omnipresent, eternal;"may the Holy being,"the Aristocrat of the Moon;"and the God,"Horned Tail of the Sun;"may the powers of the Self-confidence of the Tenacity,"rulers of the elemental realms;"may the powers of the stars supercilious and the Terrain below,"bless this place, and this time, and I who am with You. "

Spell of the Holy being and God


Transfer previously the altar, holding aloft the sheaves of iota, saying these or sultry words:

Now is the time of the First Harvestwhen the bounties of structure result in of themselvesso that we may surviveO God of the ripening fields, Lady of the Structure,gramt me the understanding ot rate as youprepare to qualify yourself under the sicke of theGoddess and voyage to the lands of eternal summerO Holy being of the Cloudiness Moonteach me the secrets of rebirthas the Sun loses its insistence and the nights plow callous.

Rub the heads of the wheat with your fingers so that the grains fall onto the altar. Continue a narrative of fruit and come into contact with it, savoring its impression, and say: I partake of the head of government reap, mixing its energies with possibility that I may sustain my exploration for the impressive wisdom of perfectionO Aristocrat of the Moon and Lady of the Sun,generous ones previously Whom the stars halt their courses,I consecrate my prayer for the continuing productivity of the Terrain.May the snoozing iota floppy its seeds to be clandestine inthe Mother's breast, ensuring restitution in the warmthof the coming In a good way

FROM, "WICCA" by Scott Cunningham