Honor the harvest - the outer and the interior

In the awareness that we also nourish ourselves internally, we store this force in us for the times that will inevitably come.

The annual district festival Lughnasadh is traditionally celebrated on the 8th of the Julfest and this is the 1st August 2023. The Celtic name Lugh or Lugus is the meaning of the "bright".

Like the Germanic Loki, Lugh is a master of fire. The mighty god Lugh was very revered in the entire Celtic area. At that time he is married to the harvest goddess Demeter. The grain mother had many names, such as Annona. In the Rhineland and on the Rhone they were called Rosmerta.

Lughnasadh is the first of three harvest festivals. This is followed by Mabon in September and the harvest time ends with Samhain (Samain) in October. Another name for Lughnasadh is Lammas. It is reminiscent of an old Anglo-Saxon word: Loaf mass (LAIB mass) The place where the first loaf of bread of the season was consecrated. Since bread was essential for survival, this ritual act was very important and was traditionally carried out by the house of the house.

With the first "sneaker festival" we already get a premonition that the darker days are no longer far. Lughnasadh is a fire -proof because it takes place on the full moon. The mild god of summer, Belen or Belenos, transforms into God Lugh in the fiery flame of the August Fire.

However, we already suspect that Lugh will also lose strength and we are aware that he also dies in autumn with the change in nature.

As early as August, when the days can still be hot, we feel that the days are getting shorter again and the nights are getting longer and we see the changes in nature.

Lughnasadh is a festival of joy and gratitude

The people of earlier times were happy about the first crops that could be stored in the memory for storage at that time. Lughnasadh is the first snap festival to be the first to bring in grain but also all other types of grains such as corn, for example.

The grain was used as the basis to get over the cold winter months. However, part of the harvest was also stored as seeds so that new life could be created again in spring.

The wasting

The fire god Lugh leads everything that is bloomed and matured to complete and death. Everything in nature must first fade so that the maturation can be brought about. In principle, we recognize this. Everything blossomed and thus gets it to be perfected, it has to fade.

If the grain does not lose its green, milky color, it cannot mature to golden grains. The hot days in August first give the grapes and berries sweet and strength and thus the right maturity.

Lughnasadh is an important part of the year inside and outside

He is about life and dying to create new life again.

On the outside, Lughnasadh is about gratitude that any kind of grain can be harvested in order to bring people and the animals over the winter. Inside, we also deal with the harvest and gratitude to Lughnasadh that we had many experiences and have had any experiences, the harvest of which we are now allowed to enter and maybe even pass it on to others.

This is a very good time in order to express our thanks to nature and the natural beings for their blessings and their gifts for everything we can receive.

The essence of Lughnasadh

We celebrate the summer again with all its gifts despite the knowledge that darker times will move in again. We live in now and take up the warming sun rays again.

In the awareness that we can also nourish ourselves, we store the power of the sun in us for the times that will come. As early as September, when we celebrate Mabon, it will be autumn and the warm summer days will have passed.

And yet they are stored in us and remind us

Also through conscious food, with a focus on what we have on our plates and do not let ourselves be distracted, we get the opportunity to express our thanks for what we were able to harvest with every meal.

If we then eat things that we have made ourselves in which we have invested our lifetime, the enjoyment is really greatest.