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Lammas

{ August 6, 2007 @ 5:27 pm } · { August Eve }
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I can’t believe I forgot to share my Lammas adventures!!!

Well, I eventually dragged my ass off the internet for a while & managed to celebrate (quite joyfully, I might add) :)

Well, I don’t look particularly joyful here, but I assure you I was :D lol

I spent quite a bit of time with the plants around my yard. (Dammit!! I forgot to get those 3 leaf clovers again!!) I picked one of each of the flowers around to place on my altar, and a couple more of each to press for some crafts.

While I was outside, my lil angel kitty from next door decided to check up on me every so often. Hes’ such a darling. He has several names (if you don’t care, just skip past the pic LOL) ~ His given name (from my neighbor, his owner) is Muffin, which Nick & I think is too lame for such a handsome boy lol. We were calling him “Bo-dy” for quite a while because he loves to wander up to us whenever we’re outside. Nick named him “G3″, as in Garfield 3. I named him “Angel” because he is such a darling lil guy; and I also named him “Imbolc” until I can find a more attractive male name with the same meaning because the first time he ever visited us was on Imbolc ~ he randomly found himself outside our dining room window, illuminated by the candle inside, which was quite startling & quite beautiful at the same time, hehehe. Here’s a pic from Imbolc of the very window, & then a pic of the lil guy on Lammas

Here are my tomato & basil plants. My tomato plants suffered a bit of wind damage the night this pic was taken, & my biggest plant may be ruined, unfortunately. However, I did finally make the popsicle stick & hot glue trellises I’ve been meaning to make (yeah, I’m ghetto – LOL) and they seem to be doing their job properly. Hopefully the big plant can recover with its crutches hehehe.

My basil plant is still happily thriving ~ I even picked a few leaves to put in the bruschetta I made :D I made it with toast, chopped homegrown tomatoes (obviously not my own, heh), olive oil, black olives, basil, & a bit of salt & pepper. Twas delicious!!

And, as for my last pic, my altar with a new cloth & some freshly picked flowers ~ sorry that it’s a bit blurry, it looked fine in the viewfinder…

Hmm… what else did I do??

I spent a bit of time outside trying to meditate while the sun set (which is pretty difficult in the city with Imbolc starting beef with neighboring cats, car horns, & loud, drunken neighbors LOL). I wrote a list of regrets from the past season, burned them & set the ashes free to the wind. I started my own version of the gratitude bottle out of a snazzy looking Snapple bottle with “fire” on the front (it was dragonfruit) & the logo “elements” on the cap ~ I started filling it with the flowers that our cats had maimed & stones found in different places over the season. Aaaand…that’s about it for now. I have to wait for the flowers to finish pressing before I can make an ATC or page in my scrapbook. And I was pretty exhausted after doing all that I had managed to get done, so I took a nap immediately after, hehe. Perhaps I shall do more sometime soon <3

A Lammas ritual for resolving injustice

{ August 1, 2007 @ 11:21 pm } · { August Eve, Rituals & "Spells" }
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A Lammas ritual for resolving injustice

The injustice may involve official, business, domestic or personal issues. This ritual can also be used for overcoming official inertia in a matter of importance

  • Take a sharp pair of golden-coloured scissors or a sharp knife with a golden handle.

  • On a piece of yellow paper write down the matter with which you are concerned and your frustrations and the main obstacles in the path to justice.

  • Roll the paper into a scroll and tie it loosely with long grasses or ears of corn, wheat or barley, wrapping in them the desire for a swift and positive ending to the matter.

  • Finally tie the bundle with a scarlet ribbon, colour of the Norse other Goddess Frigg who rules corn dollies, binding in it any residual negativity or doubts concerning the matter.

  • With your knife or scissors, cut through the ribbon saying:

Let the matter proceed with all swiftness to a positive conclusion that I may be free of its cords.

  • You can be as specific or general as you wish about the nature of the problem.

  • Catch the corn and paper on a large tray and continue to cut or shred the paper and corn until you have a pile of small pieces,

  • Throw the pieces on to a bonfire or fire in a domestic hearth and look into the embers to see pictures of a brighter tomorrow.

putnamwitches

August Eve/Lammas/Lunasda plans

{ July 30, 2007 @ 4:57 am } · { August Eve }
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Decorate w/ harvesting tools, & harvested fruits, veggies & flowers; change altar cloth according to suggested colors below
~Yellow, Orange, Green, Brown, Red, gold, bronze, citrine and gray, white
Sandalwood incense
have a fire (candle)
Make sun tea!!
Spend time in your garden ~ Relaxation and being at one with Nature
meditation on the abundance and blessings within your life; appreciation
Have some juice & beer
Take some garden porn; Harvest some basil
Make bruchetta w/ basil
libation
Seeds from fruit are ceremoniously given back to the Earth to keep the cycle going.
Paint nails for August

Now is a great time of year to work on honing your own talents. Put on a play, write a story or poem, take up a musical instrument, or sing a song.
Do Magick to help you finish long-standing projects by the fall
commit to nurturing our talents
Gratitude Bottles
ATC, SoS page

Think of the things you meant to do this summer or this year that are not coming to fruition. You can project your regrets onto natural objects and throw them into the fire, releasing them
reflecting on the past year and what I’ve accomplished, and making plans on what to sow for the upcoming year
sacrifice, transformation