Lammas is a time to be thankful for your bounty. It is the season you release all forms of thinking. Tis a time to harvest something fresh and new in one's life. Make new acquaintances. Share the bounty of your garden with your neighbors.
~ A Victorian Grimoire
Even if the bounty is for the squirrels.
Call the winds, chant the rite, dance around, fear of ankle break. Make a walnut pile in hopes they wander far away from tomatoes ripe.
~ A little Lammas squirrel incantation.
Fairest of the months, ripe Summer's Queen
The hey-day of the year
With robes that gleam with sunny sheen
Sweet August doth appear:
~ R. C. Miller
These plants spirits will also give information about lost objects. The modern ritual with Morning Glory seeds now has Incorporated Christian elements. Some of the names-Semilla de la Virgen "seed of the Virgin" and Hirba Maria "Mary's herb" show union of the Christian with the pagan...considered gifts from the gods.
~Plants of the Gods
I'm all about harvesting something new. Bring on Lammas.
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