‎”How can my soul be still
when I am whirling in stillness”~Rumii♥

LUGHNASADH celebrations, as many ancient festivities, involved processions to high places. Offerings of clooties, coins, or small items such as buttons, beads, and pins, were left at designated points. Water would be drunk and bathed in at holy wells. Sitting in a prehistoric stone seat might be done to cure or prevent various ills. Garlands of flowers might be carried to a site and buried there to signify the end of summer and the return of its energy to the earth. Spancels used to tie horses or cows might be hung near holy wells to gain protection for the animals.

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Do not fight against pain; do not fight against irritation or jealousy. Embrace them with great tenderness, as though you were embracing a little baby. Your anger is yourself, and you should not be violent toward it. The same thing goes for all your emotions.

LUGHNASADH was likely the moment when Lugh in Irish myth comes to the door of Temhair and crosses the threshold. Like him, the Roman Mercury and Greek Hermes were also concerned with interchanges, transitions and crossings. Lughnasadh was the point at which the people crossed over from hunger to feasting. Until recently, the month before harvest was a time of hunger for many people in Celtic countries. Even one hundred years ago, July was known as “hungry July” or the time of cabbage because many people subsisted only on old cabbage or wild nettles until the new harvest began. In Irish myth, Eochu Bres takes the throne after the midsummer solstice and, though he is beautiful, he is a miser who serves no ale and butters no bread. Herding communities that relied on sheep’s milk for their summer diet had to cut off that supply by separating ewes from lambs so that the ewes would be ready to breed and start the cycle again. With Lughnasa came fresh, sweet berries of many sorts, new grain for bread, and new potatoes with their delicate skins.Art by Jim Fitzpatrick at http://apps.facebook.com/Mywebees/etsy.com/shop/JimFitzPatrickArtist

Pam McDowell Saylor shared a link via Celtic Mythology.