LAMMAS August 1st - a celebration of our first harvest. 'The essence of Lammas is about transforming the energy of the sun (spirit) into the energy of the earth (matter, people). The sun's energy decreases but the results of its energy increases: grain in the fields, fruit on the bushes/trees, experience of the people.' Kaaren Whitney 2005
Ideas to help you celebrate Lammas
Lammas poems
Corn King by Kaaren Whitney 2007
Before the Bread by Kaaren Whitney 2006
White Currants by Kaaren Whitney 2006
First Harvest by Kaaren Whitney 2004
Red Fruit by Kaaren Whitney 2003
First Fruits by Kaaren Whitney 2002
Harvest of Corn by Kaaren Whitney 2001
Lammas Evening by Heather Shackleton 2000
Things I have achieved by Corinne Whitby 1999
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Lammas is a time to celebrate our early achievements and recognise what we may have had to sacrifice in order to make them. The grain in the field is harvested in order that life can be sustained - but this can only be done when the life of the plants is taken. In death there is life and in life there is death. The cycle cannot exist forever in one mode.
