Lughnasadh Sabbat

The Summer progresses apace and our next Sabbat will be Lughnasadh on 2nd August, this is the festival of First Fruits and the start of the grain harvest. The Spirit of the Corn will be captured in Corn Dollies where the seeds of regeneration will be kept for the following year to manifest in the Harvest once again. This year we will honour Lugh, Balor and Tailiu and so it will be a good time for our Witches to brush up on their Gaelic ! Deideil mar thriallas a 'ghrian..... Gu fior chare na h-airde deas.

July Full Moon

The Full Moon of July we know as the Wort Moon, 'wyrt' being the Anglo-Saxon word for herb, and we shall continue to gather our magical herbs and flowers. When they are harvested and hung up to dry we give thanks to the Spirits who dwell in our Herb Garden on the East side of our Circle, and we'll leave them an offering. As we place this offering in our moonlit garden the Spirits whisper secrets of herb lore to us. Soon we will be gathering grain to be used in our Lughnasadh Ritual with the Sabbat group.