August -A time of joy and laughter!

Lammas or also known as Lughnassadh, meaning that wiccans/pagans celebrate either on 31st July, to the 1st or 2nd of August or the nearest full moon.

We celebrate the thanks giving of the food given to us from our mother earth and that of the Sun God. It means we harvest the first fruits of the year and other’s for safekeeping later in the year.

It is a time to honoring of our parent Deities. You can join in by making a corn doll. A corn doll man even a corn wheel/solar wheel. Bread is made fruit is eaten and replanted, ale to replace wine for the men and of course red wine for the female. As the crone elder Move’s over for the younger female to make new life within the world.

Oil for Sabbath;

Lughnassadh/ Lammas

Use this to put in soap in a bath or to anoint candles for spell/ritual work.

5 drops of Frankincense

5 drops or rose

3 drops of yarrow

2 drops of citrus/lemon or orange.
 
This will help you relax and open your senses to hearing and connecting better within yourself emotions, also for prosperity, luck and high energy as well as feeling passionate and positive in all works done that month.

The time to be outdoors enjoying what mother earth has given us such abundance and beauty. So make sure you take in what is put in front of you to see or smell, the air we breath, the sun and warmth on our body’s if only for a short time. To me it’s called living in the moment, to enjoy laughing to love to smile.

What more could we ask for?

Take a moment like most of us did as children and lie on the grass looking up into the clouds, and letting our imagination go wild with what we seen in those clouds, and you think of a loved one with a smile on your face, and some how think a message is coming just for you some how? And most times it does just never at the moment we want it to.

This time of year is for anything and every thing. But most of all its for living and joy.

Everything around you has a meaning or symbolism use it wisely the only way you know, and remember the old sayings you was taught as a child all of a sudden they will give you purpose.

Go out and do something you have never in your life thought you d do? Something silly be spontaneous, no-one there to tell you not to? Live

Think of this month as your clock ticking away, what would you want in your life right at this moment? Then go do it.

But please make sure you also protect yourself, did you also know that the month of August is known for a very high energy of births or pregnancy’s mmm I wonder why, should we put it down to the heat? Ha ha.

Think of the fun colors this month oranges and yellows, gold’s green’s Blue use these lovely bright colors to cheer you up, amazing what a change of color in your life can do, even on the hair, just don’t go doing multi colors, but that would look fab can you imagine my husband if I walked in with multi colored hair? Would be a laugh though!

Leave you with that thought.

Thank you for reading.

© Wendy Binks aka Lady Snake 2011