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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:07am

To take advantage of the very special positive energies created on and around the feast of Lammas you can try the following Lammas Ritual. This is aimed to bring you positive energies, good luck, prosperity success and abundance. You will need, amongst other things, a bread roll, honey and a glass of red wine.
Buy or preferably bake a small bread roll.

Tear a small hole in the bread roll by taking out a small piece of bread. Retain the small piece.

Fill the hole in the bread roll with any or all of the following:


A sprig of Rosemary - for fidelity and faithfulness from a lover
A small gold coloured coin - for abundant wealth
2 Bay Leaves - for commitment from a lover
A pinch of dried Lavender - for fertility
A pinch of dried Thyme - to attract a lover
Dried Sage - for vibrant health
A pinch of dried Mint - for career and business success and prosperity
Take the retained small piece of bread and dip it into honey. Eat the sweetened bread piece and take a sip of red wine and say aloud three times:

Sweeten my life abundantly
Health, Wealth and Happiness bring forth to me
Grant now my wishes
So mote it be!
You will now need to bury in the earth the filled bread roll so that it is completely covered by earth. With love, light and luck within a year and a day your wishes should come true!

Your deepest wishes and wildest dreams can really come true by harnessing the powerful and positive energies of Lammas Magic. Let me show you how to make your DREAMS COME TRUE.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alison_Yates

 

First posted in "Sabbats and Seasons"

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:06am

Lammas is normally celebrated on August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and is one of the eight Sabbats celebrated by Wiccans, Pagans and Druids.

Also known as Lughnassadh, Lammas is commemorated and celebrated as a time of abundance, prosperity and success. It is believed that during the period of Lughnassadh it is possible to make manifest immense positive changes in health, wealth and happiness.

Casting Spells during Lammas for drawing healing, abundance, prosperity and material wealth are said to be most successful.

Lammas is also considered to be the perfect time for lovers to commit to one another. Handfasting Ceremonies are always popular at Lammas. Handfasting is where couples are gently bound by a cord around their wrists which is then knotted to symbolise their commitment to each other. The lovers commit themselves to each other for "a year and a day," "a lifetime," "for all of eternity" or "for as long as love shall last," by ritually "tying the knot."

With love in the air around Lammas day any Love Spells that are cast on and around this day are said to manifest swiftly and successfully.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alison_Yates

First posted in "Sabbats and Seasons"

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:06am

A Harvest Spell

Set an orange candle on either side of the caldron. On a piece of paper (small)write the things you have harvested over the past year, light the paper from one of the candles and let it burn in the cauldron. After it is done put some corn (or squash) seeds in the cauldron. "Stir" the seeds with your wand visualizing white light coming from the tip of the wand, filling the cauldron and entering the seeds. When you feel the seeds have absorbed their fill stop, put the seeds into another container to be kept on the altar until next year's planting.

~author unknown

 

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:05am

You can honor the Grain Goddess by making a corn doll. This is a fun project to do with kids. . She's your visual representation of the harvest. As you work on her, think about what you harvested this year. Give your corn dolly a name, perhaps one of the names of the Grain Goddess or one that symbolizes your personal harvest. Dress her in a skirt, apron and bonnet and give her a special place in your house. She is all yours till the spring when you will plant her with the new corn, returning to the Earth that which She has given to you. Make a corn dolly to save for next Imbolc.

It is a season to throw away useless thoughts and habits and to form new ideas which bring renewed strength. Reflect on these topics alone in the privacy of your journal or share them with others around a fire.

Lughnasad is one of the great Celtic fire-festivals, so if at all possible, have your feast around a bonfire.

Have a magical picnic and break bread with friends.

Do a meditation in which you visualize yourself completing a project you have already begun.

Bake bread this is a grain festival! If you've never made bread before, this is a good time to startand there is ahelpful article here in the links.
Honor the source of the flour as you work with it: remember it was once a plant growing on the mother Earth. If you have a garden, add something you've harvested--herbs or onion or corn--to your bread. If you don't feel up to making wheat bread, make corn bread. Bake a sacred loaf bread and give a portion of it to Mother Earth with a prayer of appreciation.

Make blessings for a good harvest season.

Do prosperity magic.

Kindle a Lammas fire with sacred wood and dried herbs.

If you live in or near a farming region, attend a public harvest festival, such as a corn or apple festival.

Decorate the altar and house with grains such as barley, oats and wheat -- also fruits and veggies.

Begin gathering and drying herbs, flower, grains or seeds for spellworking in the next year.

Make magickal oils now with fresh herbs.

Braid onion and garlic charms. Onion is sacred to the sun -- because of its shape, and its dye is a golden amber to burnt apricot.When the onion is cut, it reveals the symbolism of the moon. Garlic, too, is sacred to the moon -- the crescent shape of the cloves. It exorcises evil and protects.

Collect rain and storm water for use in spellwork or to empower objects, add dried mugwort and store in glass bottles.

Make a corn wheel.

But whatever you do just remember to have lots of fun!

Lammas/Lughnasadh Blessings to each and every one of you, may your harvests be bountiful and your hearts full of thanks for our mother earth.ther earth!

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:04am

Symbolism: Fruitfulness, reaping, prosperity, reverence, purification, transformation, change, The Bread of Life, The Chalice of Plenty , The Ever-flowing Cup , the Groaning Board (Table of Plenty)

Tarot Cards: Justice , The Wheel of Fortune

Altar Decorations: corn dolls, dried indian corn ears, sunflowers, wheat stalks

Herbs: acacia flowers, aloes, cornstalks, frankincense, heather, hollyhock, myrtle, oak leaves, sunflower, wheat
Incense: rose, sandalwood

Gods & Goddess': Lugh (Celtic solar diety worshiped by ancient Druids), John Barleycorn (personification of malt liquor), Demeter, Ceres, Corn Mother, and all dieties presiding over agriculture.

Colors: Golden Yellow, Orange, Green, and Light Brown.

Gemstones: aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx, Cat's-eye, golden topaz, obsidian, moss agate, rhodochrosite, clear quartz, marble, slate, granite, lodestone, Carnelian

Food: Homemade breads, barley cakes, nuts, crab apples, rice, lamb, elderberry wine, ale,cider, beer, meadowsweet tea , Grains, Berry Foods and any locally ripe produce.

Herbs and Flowers:
Grapes, Heather, Blackberries, Sloe, Crab Apples, Pears. goldenrod, peony, nasturtium, clover blossom, yarrow, heliotrope, boneset, vervain, Queen Anne's lace, myrtle, rose, sunflower, poppy, milkweed, Irish moss, mushroom, wheat, corn, rye, oat, barley, rice, garlic, onion, basil, mint, aloe, acacia, meadowsweet, apple leaf, raspberry leaf, strawberry leaf, bilberry leaf, blueberry leaf, mugwort, hops, holly, comfrey, marigold, grape vine, ivy, hazelnut, blackthorn, elder, bee pollen.

Tools/Symbols/Decorations: Corn, cornucopias, red, yellow flowers, sheaves of grain (wheat, barley, oats), first fruits/vegetables of garden labor, corn dollies, baskets of bread, spear, cauldron, sickle, scythe, threshing tools, sacred loaf of bread, harvested herbs, bonfires, bilberries, God figures made of bread or cookie dough, phallic symbols

Insence: Wood aloes, rose, rose hips, rosemary, chamomile, eucalyptus, safflower, corn, passionflower, frankincense, sandalwood

Goddesses: The Mother, Dana ( Lughs wife & queen ), Tailltiu(Welsh-Scottish), Demeter(Greek), Ceres( Roman grain goddess..honored at Ceresalia), the Barley Mother, Seelu(Cherokee), Corn Mother, Isis (Her birthday is celebrated about this time), Luna (Roman Moon Goddess), other agricultural Goddesses, the waxing Goddess

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 19, 2012 at 10:04am

Gods: Johnny Barleycorn, Lugh,Arianrhods golden haired son Lleu ( Welsh God of the Sun & Corn where corn includes all grains, not just maize), Dagon (Phoenician Grain God), Tammuz/ Dummuzi (Sumerian), Dionysus, plus all sacrificial Gods who willingly shed blood/give their life that their people/lands may prosper, all vegetation Gods & Tanus (Gaulish Thunder God), Taranis, (Romano-Celtic Thunder God), Tina, (Etruscan-Thunder God), the waning God

Animals/Mythical beings: Griffins, roosters, calves, centaurs, phoenix

Magick:At this time, witches cast spells for connectedness, career, health, and financial gain. Spells for abundance are completely appropriate now. As the sun is growing weaker, it is a good time to do grounding and sun meditations, then use the golden rays of the sun (gathered during meditation) in spellcasting,

Customs: Games, the traditional riding of poles/staves, country fairs, breaking bread with friends, making corn dollys, harvesting herbs for charms/rituals, Lughnasadh fire with sacred wood & dried herbs, feasting, competitions, lammas towers (fire-building team competitions), spear tossing, gathering flowers for crowns, fencing/swordplay, games of skill, martial sports, chariot races, hand-fastings, trial marriages, dancing round a corn mother (doll)

Lore: A time of the early harvest, when the Mother begins her croning. What has been asked for during the Summer Soltice is ready to be. Along with celebrating the first fruits of harvest it can also be a good time for bonding with animals and nature

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 11, 2012 at 10:10am

Date: August 1 or 2, or the first Full Moon of Leo

Lammas Ritual 

For the Lammas ritual contained here you will need your regular altar supplies. It is appropriate to have corn husks, corn dollies, wheat and grain decorating the altar and the quarters. In addition you will need:

Parchment paper (or regular paper) cut into squares, enough for each person
Pens or pencils
Large eyed needles
Heavy thread
Slightly dried sweet corn or indian corn with which to make corn necklaces prior to circle
A large cauldron, or some type of container resembling a cauldron in which a fire can be made to burn the parchment papers. Corn cakes and mead or ale is very appropriate, can use apple juice as a good non-alcoholic substitute.

Lammas Circle Notes:
Use a yellow or yellow-orange altar cloth, and green, yellow, or orange candles.  Decorate with bunches of herbs, sheaves of grain, ears of corn, and small baskets of fruit and vegetables. Burn Lammas Incense (See our Lammas Incense Recipes). Cast the Circle using the athamé.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 11, 2012 at 10:10am

Lammas Circle Ideas:

Kindle a Lammas fire of herbs and wood to commemorate the Sun's passing.  Say goodbye to the Sun by saying: "We thank You God of Sun and Light, for warming us from dawn 'til night.  For fertilizing all on Earth, for bringing us Your cheer and mirth.  For laughter, joy, and shining ray, for guiding us along our way.  And as You go, we hold You dear, until the winter brings You near.  And with the Yule You're born anew.  Goodbye, dear Sun, we shall miss You." Thank the Mother for Her bountiful gifts by blessing the onions, garlic, and grain stables in your kitchen (flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, and so on).  Line them up on the altar or counter, place your hands over them, and say: "We thank You, Mother, for these gifts, for meal and bulbs and that which sifts.  Please bless these items with Your grace, and hold them dear within their space.  So as we eat, Your blessings flow, within, without - from head to toe."

Bake magickal bread in celebration of the harvest.  This doesn't have to be difficult or take all day.  Just use frozen bread dough, and knead in a tablespoon or two of fresh herbs when it thaws (basil, oregano, dill, parsley, and chives are all good choices).  As you eat the bread, say: "Cycle of Life contained herein, Birth and Death and Birth again.  Help me to understand my role, in life, and help me cleanse my soul.  So I may walk this path with ease, as I will so mote it be."

Make the corn dolly for next year's Imbolc.  Just acquire three ears of corn and tie them together as directed in the Imbolc celebration ideas.  Bless the dolly by saying: "Seeds of Life that burn and thrive, seeds of plenty come alive.  By Sun and Earth this spell fulfill, become now Brigid, who melts the chill." Put the dolly in a safe place to await the Imbolc celebration.

Perform prosperity magick for the coming months by making a Witches' Bottle.  Just gather together a small bottle with a tight-fitting cork, a fish hook, some clover, a bit of cinnamon, and a few coins.  As you place the materials in the bottle, visualize money coming to you from all directions.  Cork the bottle and seal it with a bit of wax from the altar candles, then enchant it by saying: "Money come alive and grow, pour down on me both high and low.  By herb and hook and glass and coin, prosperity and I now join.  Paper money and coins that shine, come to me, for you are mine." Bury the bottle near your front door.  If that's not possible, set the bottle in a place where it won't be disturbed.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 11, 2012 at 10:10am

Harvest Spell author unknown

Set an orange candle on either side of the caldron. On a piece of small paper write the things you have harvested over the past year, light the paper from one of the candles and let it burn in the cauldron. After it is done put some corn or squash seeds in the cauldron. Stir" the seeds with your wand visualizing white light coming from the tip of the wand, filling the cauldron and entering the seeds. When you feel the seeds have absorbed their fill stop, put the seeds into another container to be kept on the altar until next years planting.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on July 11, 2012 at 10:09am

Solitary Lammas Ritual from: Secrets of a Witch

Materials:
chime
loaf of bread
candles
The Chime is rung three times. Say:
"I come to this space in celebration Within the Sacred Garden of the Gods.
The Sun God, He gives forth light and the energy of life to all.
Through the Goddess and from the Goddess All things grow and mature.
It is She who is the bearer of life and rebirth of the Harvest to come.
The land is full and must be tended. Let me now share Her bounty."

Break off a piece of bread and eat it. Prepare a candle for lighting, saying:
"I must open myself to change. To do so, I must abandon my faults, Refresh and vitalize the body and spirit, And embrace growth as I prepare for what is to become; For what the future holds, Yet for me to grow it is necessary for a part of me to die."

Light the candle, declare any faults you would like to be cleansed of, and stick the candle in the ground before you. The Energy Circle is raised and at its climax blow out the candle. After a moment of meditation, say:
"Out of the death of this small part of me, life begins anew."
The ritual is complete and the circle is released.

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