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Reader Stories: Lammas/Lughnasadh Altars

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Did you dress up your altar for Lammas/Lughnasadh, the first harvest holiday? Share a photo of your altar with our readers - we'd love to see what you did!

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Lady Misery's Lammas Altar

Had a Large family dinner with traditional Beer Bread and mashed potatoes fresh from the garden, pork loin with fresh rosemary from the garden and made a fresh cherry pie. Set up my altar, very simpl…More

My First Lammas Altar!

I spent two days planning and preparing my altar and festivities. I set up my altar the night before, and the next morning I started on my homemade French bread. Around midday, I took some Earth ince…More

Harvesting for Life

Just starting to figure it out. I did say your blessings and I shared the folklore with my family and friends. I got busy and looked around my house and found things to make my altar. Of course that …More

Lavender Silvercat's Lammas/Lughnasadh Altar-2011

I held my solitary ritual early in the day, based partly on a ritual found online, and partly my own. This was a ritual that meant much to me, as I am an avid gardener, and take pride in what I can g…More

Kaia's Lammas Altar

I was able to get into the garden today and gather some of our wonderful vegetables. There was squash, cucumbers and one of my favorites, tomatoes...only a few, but I included them in my special dinn…More

The Bounty of the Harvest

A small ritual giving thanks for the harvest and the bounty received. I made a set of prayer beads for meditation while in circle. It was the first ritual I had done alone in a long time and it was p…More

Solitary Magic

I performed a small solitary ritual with a little spellwork. It was my very first solitary ritual, as well as my first ritual after moving. Sadly I lost a lot of ritual and spell working items during…More

An Altar of Abundance

We did a ritual honoring the grain harvest, sharing fresh-baked bread as a way to mark the season. Also, we incorporated a ritual honoring the craftsman god Lugh, in which we thanked him for our abil…More

Keeping it Simple

Corn Dolly craft: We go to the local farmers market and get some fresh corn. When we get home we sit out back and shuck it all. We then arrange the husks into a pentacle on our big round stone patio …More

A Magical Celebration

From Patti: There are plenty of Lammas celebrations available here on the site, including the Lammas Harvest Ritual (http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/lammas/ht/Lammas_Ritual.htm) and a celebration hon…More

An Altar of Love

I put the fertility goddess because my husband and I are ttc and the fae and the little girl reminds me that as the leaves will fall always to keep hope next to me. The various stones at the fertilit…More

A Ceremonial Feast

We performed the Lammas Harvest Ritual and took some time to honor the spirit of the grain. We also did a meditation focusing on the symbolism of life, death, and rebirth as applied to the harvest se…More

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