Lammas as Spiritual Practice: Favorite Resources for a Journey through the Wheel of the Year
Celebrating a harvest...
Today, we continue our shared journey through the Wheel of the Year—via resource recommendations—because tomorrow is Lammas, a holiday celebrating the idea of harvest and with a history in various religious streams.
I personally celebrate this holiday as a form of resistance to religious colonization, and as a way to connect to the rhythms of the earth and the cosmos.
I’m also reflecting specifically on what harvest means to me this year. Over the last few years, I’ve been sowing seeds of authenticity and new connections, and I’m beginning to harvest fruit—healthier communities and relationships, building new rhythms based in secure attachment and communication instead of anxiety, feeling my feelings instead of running from them, resting in the gratitude of knowing the love that is already here, seeing my book about to be in print and my editing work as a part of many amazing projects, etc. This harvest remains hard work (toil, even), with many ups and downs and even sacrifices of ways of being that no longer serve, but through it all, I’m hopeful this harvest.
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With that in mind, here are some of my favorite Lammas resources:
Juliet Diaz and Lorraine Anderson’s Seasons of the Witch Lammas Oracle: a lovely deck about the associations, traditions, and themes of this season, created by BIPOC voices.
Friday Gladheart’s The Practical Witch’s Almanac includes interesting discussions about this day.
My forthcoming book also includes a Lammas ritual centering disabled experiences.
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So, no matter how you go about this celebratory time, may you know your utter belovedness and find life-giving ways of being—for this season and always.
In Wonder,
Kandi Zeller (she/her)