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WELCOME TO CASSANDRA'S WEB
NEWS FROM CASSANDRA July and August 2008 The days fly past and already in the northern hemisphere we are galloping away from that moment when the sun was at her or his height at Midsummer, towards the festival of the first harvest. In the southern hemisphere on the other side of the wheel of the world you are getting ready to greet the early spring in your ritual calendar and moving away from Midwinter. The first harvest time at the end of July and the beginning of August is for me not a time of the powerful sun gods riding across the sky in their golden chariots but the much more hands on sun mothers, making sure the workers in the fields get their dinner and that nobody is treading on the sleepy field mice. Sun mothers appear in hot and cold lands alike. In one Australian Aboriginal legend from the Wotjobaluk tribe of Victoria, Australia, the Sun Mother carries a bark torch through the skies each day and returns to the west each evening to feed her waiting infant. In the folk customs of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, the solar Goddess, Saule, Queen of the Heavens and Earth, dressed and crowned with gold, is still in folk tradition, said to drive her shining chariot across the skies and to walk among the people to bless the growing fields. In winter, Saule dances with her daughters, the planets, in defiance of the darker days. Throughout the year, Saule scolds her lazy husband Menulis the Moon who will not keep up with her and disappears for three days each month. In the Basque region of Northern Spain, the sun is still revered in folk lore as Grandmother Sun. Her worship has been transferred to the Virgin Mary who is associated with mother Mari, the Storm Goddess in whose wise bosom Grandmother Sun sleeps at night The Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omigami was the chief deity or kami, deity of nature. She is compassionate and wise. However because Amaterasu is all-seeing and all-knowing, occasionally the behaviour of humanity makes her temporarily despair and she returns to her sun cave, causing an eclipse. Aine was one of the Sun Mother of the Celts, linked with fertility, healing, goddess of cattle and corn and the cycles of the solar and lunar year, for she was also a moon goddess. The top of her sacred hill in Munster, in Ireland, like that of the hill of her sun sister Grainne in Leinster, was the scene for torchlight processions and bonfires at the Summer Solstice and again at the first grain harvest at the beginning of August. Enjoying the sun in our lives, even on cloudy days I am reminded on sunny summer days of a line from the I Ching Oracle. Be not sad; be as the sun at midday. Being as the sun at midday means enjoying very moment, not fretting about what went wrong or we did not achieve or worrying about the future as yet unmade. It is hard to always be like the sun at midday especially if it is a cloudy midday actually or emotionally. Then you have to push your way through doom and gloom and you may feel more like retiring to bed and drawing the curtains on the world rather than being little Miss or Master Sunshine. For me as we approach the first harvest Lughnassadh there is lots in my personal harvest that is not yet ripe and other crops I planted that are past their sell by date or never took root at all! But it is important to focus on what is of worth and what has been achieved, usually more than you thought possible. You may be moving into the early spring in the southern world with a chance to plant again maybe more wisely. Alternatively like me you may be getting out the secateurs to cut back the garden gone wild with alternate sun and rain. Wherever you are and whatever your seasonal call, stop to enjoy any moments of sunshine and joy. It is hard for me with my puritanical work ethic and all too real Work Mountain to enjoy relaxing and not to count only what I have actually produced in terms of readings, articles and book chapters, my external harvest, as being of worth. The precious weekend moments with my family now grown up and scattered, watching the badgers that come to the back door every night as darkness falls, or sitting and listening to the bird song and seeing the moon rising over the trees are all of worth and are a different kind of harvest but equally valuable. I know this in my heart if not in my whirling always desperately trying to catch up mind and practical life. The days really do go faster as you get older as my late mother used to say. I never believed her when I was a bored teenager, wishing away the present for some idealized golden tomorrow that when it came, seemingly flashed by in an eye blink as if viewed from a high speed express train. So take time at this first harvest to reflect not on what did not grow or what will not now bear fruit but what you have achieved since the last harvest and what you still can create in golden moments however small. For gathered together like sunbeams those special moments can generate a lot of light to keep you optimistic and on track when the clouds of daily pressures do descend. If you live in the southern hemisphere especially if it is warm and dry, you can incorporate parts of Lughnassadh into you mirror festival of Imbolc, the fire in the belly of the mother, the fire that will melt the last signs of winter. So too in the northern hemisphere we can think about what we planted at our own early spring festival could still grow even if a little later than anticipated, given extra attention and faith in ourselves. Lughnassadh/Lammas, 31 July –August 2 Focus of the period: Justice and natural justice or karma, human and personal rights issues, freedom from abuse of any kind; for partnerships, both personal and legal or business, for signing contracts or property matters; promotion and career advancement and the regularizing of personal finances; for holidays and journeys to see friends and family or on business and the renewal of promises, loyalty and fidelity; also willing sacrifice for a long term gain or made in love, trusting the cosmos to provide by giving without seeking immediate return; also for all matters concerning people in their forties and fifties. Keywords: Justice, fulfillment, sacrifice Emphasis of festival: Transformation / bread Energies of the season: Waning Symbols: Any straw object such as a corn dolly, a corn knot or a straw hat or a straw animal tied with red ribbon, harvest flowers such as poppies or cornflowers (they can be silk or dried), a container of mixed cereals, dried grasses or long ears of grain, stones with natural holes; bread and dough. Tree: Alder or redwood Incense, flower and herbs: Cedarwood, cinnamon, fenugreek, ginger, heather, myrtle, poppies and sunflowers, any dark yellow, deep blue or brown-gold flowers. Candle colours: Golden brown or dark yellow. Crystals: Fossilized wood, dark yellow and any brown jasper, banded agates, greenstone, mookaite, Botswana agate, titanium aura, fossils Festival foods: Home made bread, milk, cereal products, elderberry and fruit wines, strawberries, berry pies and fruit juices, potato soup, popcorn, chicken Angel: Sachiel. Archangel of the grain harvest and of abundance. He wears robes of deep blue and purple, carrying sheaves of corn and baskets of food with a rich purple and golden halo and blue and purple wings God and Goddess of the festival. Eriu\Macha as Irish goddess of the Land. She accepted the remaining power of Lugh or Llew as Sun and Grain god so that the remaining crops would ripen. He then offers to die and return his body to the land to ensure the continuing success of future harvests The Place on the Wheel: This is the festival of the first grain harvest. The God promises to defend and die for the land. The Sun/Grain god is willingly cut down in the form of the last sheaf of grain to be harvested and his spirit descends into the earth, back into the mother’s womb, to be reborn on the Midwinter celebration as the infant Sun King. In both the pre Christian and Christian tradition called Lammas or Loaf mass a loaf baked from the first harvested sheaf was offered on the altar. On August 15, at the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, in Celtic influenced lands a bannock was made from bread and milk to be broken by the father of the household and given to the family to ensure sufficient bread throughout the year on the family table (and his willingness to work to provide it. Obviously these days the woman equally assumes the role of provider for herself and a family if she has one. Ways of Marking the Festival in the Modern world
Above all do not think of the first harvest as a step towards the waning of the light but look across the wheel to the southern hemisphere to the growth of the springtime and realise both are happening at the same time. Soon we will be rising up the wheel again and planting the next lots of seeds. My love and good wishes to you all, Cassandra
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