Summer Full Grandchildren Moon Lugnasa, August 1, the Celtic first fruits festival heralds the beginning of the harvest cycle of holidays. Lugnasa, Mabon (Fall Equinox) and Samain, October 31st, carry our sacred calendar though the bread made from the first wheat to the last of the crops gathered into storage. This means that the tenor […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon All afternoon as I have wandered the precincts of Enlightenment thought a pileated woodpecker has drilled one of the dead trees in our woods. The sound compels attention, a drummer of a truly ancient tribe with a steady and resonant sound. Each time it comes I’m drawn away from the abstract […]
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