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.
For me, Lammas is is usually bitter-sweet, just like the celebration of Summer Solstice, because we know that every season is ephemeral.
This feels especially less true this year. We’ve had a long, hot summer so far and some challenges in my own life mean that I’m actually looking forward to the quiet energy of winter. I usually love long summer nights but this year I’ve found myself missing dark starry skies and the opportunity to go inwards.
When I wrote about Lammas last year, I asked the question “how can we sit with our own light and darkness, accepting that both are equally a part of us?”. That question feels even more poignant this year as I reflect on what this means for us as a collective. We are in a space where we are navigating a polycrisis globally and we are seeing the darkness of humanity magnified, as well as the light. This is something to reflect upon as you explore the prompts below. What does each prompt mean for you as an individual and what does it mean for the collective? And how can you turn your reflections into aligned actions, however small?
You can use this Lammas,or Lughnasadh playlist below to support your reflections and it can also be used for 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:
What are the qualities that you see or experience as ‘light’
What are 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?
