Lammas or Lughnasadh breathwork and ritual playlist, and journal prompts
A Lammas or Lughnasadh playlist, with journal-prompts, for celebrating the abundance, gratitude and the first harvest
Hello friends. I have been curating and sharing playlists around the Celtic Pagan Wheel of the Year for some time now. Each time the wheel turns I update my post and playlist from the previous year. This is always a really interesting exercise in observing my own repeating themes and cycles. For an overview of The Wheel of the Year you can check out this post.
Lammas, or Lughnasadh marks the first harvest, as summer fruits and vegetables festivals are ripe and ready to be picked. Lammas means ‘loaf mass’ and it’s likely that our ancestors would have broken bread together to celebrate the fruits of their labour as they harvested the first of their crops.
This year I feel more connected to the abundance of nature than I have in pervious years. I have mugwort bundles drying out for smoke cleansing, I ate some wild blueberries on my walk yesterday and my home has been decorated with jars of wild flowers like meadowsweet and ragwort. It makes me really happy to connect with the land and its seasons on a macro level and to be aware of what’s going on around me.
For me, Lammas is is bitter-sweet, just like the celebration of Summer Solstice, because we know that every season is ephemeral. This feels especially true this year as summer barely got going before the first oranges and browns of autumn started to creep in. The wheel of the year is turning. How can we connect with the light of summer and acknowledge the approaching darkness of Autumn and Winter? How can we sit with our own light and darkness, accepting that both are equally a part of us?
You can use this Lammas,or Lughnasadh playlist to reflect and journal, as part of meditation practice, as a background for a movement-based practice, or as a tool to accompany breathwork. You can find some guidance about how to practice breathwork here.
Here are some prompts that you might wish to reflect on as part of your practice:
List the qualities that you see or experience as ‘light’
List the qualities that you see or experience as ‘darkness’
What does abundance mean to you in this moment?
What are you harvesting at this moment?
What are you grateful for?
How do you express your grattitude?
