Lughnasa Moon of the First Harvests
As we settle in to the season of Lughnasa, we can look back over our lives and anticipate the harvest festivals current and those to come. They’re a time to consider the notion of harvest, of a growing season completed and the crop taken in. What in your life have you been nurturing, feeding, weeding, making sure it gets sun and water and space? Is it time now to start picking the fruit? Worth considering.
As is, too, the notion of what you may plant for the next growing season. More time for travel? More reading in a certain area? More time with family or a particular person or a particular set of people? More time devoted to your health whether exercise, diet or meditation?
Whatever your crop you can take a cue from mother earth. What does your crop need to flourish? What will give it a good start? What kind of nourishment will it need along the way to get its roots and leaves in place? How much space (time) does your crop need, apart from others?
Maybe next Lughnasa or as soon as Mabon (Fall Equinox) or Samhain (Summer’s End) you’ll have some fruit ready to pick. If you do, celebrate it. Have a bonfire. Buy yourself or cook yourself a special meal. Go on that trip. Harvest time is festive.