Slice an orange into thin wedges and throw it in your bath water along with the petals of one red rose, one yellow rose, and one pink rose. Light a green candle and cinnamon incense. Hold your hands over the bath and visualize bright white light with golden sparkles coming down through the crown of your head, into your heart, and out through the palms of your hands to fill the water. Say: Lakshmi, goddess of abundance, I call on you! Please infuse this water with vibrations of harmony ...
The first three days of August in Greece are called Drimes. A change of season is in the air and certain activities are avoided, such as chopping wood, swimming in the sea, and washing hair. People also abstain from eating meat until August 15. This is a time of transition. Expressions of this season of abundance include leaping over bonfires shouting "figs and walnuts!" and celebrating all night in vineyards. The weather on this day is said to predict the weather for the next three months. To ...
After the symbolic acts of reaping that took place at Lammas, people watched their fields for signs that the entire crop was ready for harvest. In Scotland, the harvest ritual was performed by a male head of household, who faced east and made the first sacred cut: On the day of the feast, at the rising of the Sun With the back of the ear of grain to the east I go forth, with my sickle under my arm And I reap the first cut I will let my sickle down While the fruitful grain is in my ...
Lammas Ramadan begins After the Sun God's triumph at Litha, he begins to wane and transfer all of his strength into the food we will harvest to keep us alive through the winter. This food is gathered in stages, and so the Sun God dies in stages. Ancient people took this very seriously, and no one wanted to be the one to "kill" the God by cutting the last of the harvest. They would take turns throwing scythes at the last standing sheaf of grain so the whole community would share the ...