Festival of Lammas 7-31

‘’The festival of Lammas (Loaf Mass, the feast of bread) falls on the wheel of the year halfway between Litha, the Summer Solstice and Mabon, the Autumn Equinox. The calendared date for the festival is August 1st or 2nd. This is the first harvest festival of the year. At this festival we experience maturity, the joy of community, and we celebrate collaboration and union. It is a pause, a time to congratulate and express gratitude to our body, our family and friends, partners, community, and the earth. It reminds us of interdependence, giving and receiving, and the need to support and be harmonious.

We are able to slow down into flow as preparation for the winter months complete, the food is gathered in, and the element of water enters into our energy field. Our connection to Goddess and our interdependence on her body for our life is at its peak. Goddess has conceived, gestated, and birthed life. Now she will

regenerate. It is time for her and us to journey inward again. Motherhood and nurturance are celebrated fully at this festival as the Crone, the dark, calls us more insistently. The spring and summer are exhausted. We have completed the outer action. At Lammas we pause, say thank you and release, let go. Like the earth, we are ready to rest, integrate and renew.’’

– Kay Louise Aldred, ‘Mentorship with Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood’ – Girl God Books

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser .. View all posts by GreatCosmicMothersUnited