Harvesting Slowness

Lammas/Lughnasadh is just a few days away!
This is the first of three harvest festivals and in Christian traditions is called loaf mass, as it is the time of the wheat harvest, flour making and thus bread baking. 

If you would like to learn more about this festival you can read about it here.

Thai Harvest often brings reflection with it. What am I harvesting? What is still continuing to grow into fruition. 

This has been a year of cultivating and tending to slowness. Moving slow. Saying no. Focusing attention close to home and heart. 
My broken foot made me slow way down and just now as I am casting my boot aside and just learning to walk with two shoes once more, my dear pup Bella has undergone surgery for a torn ACL (CCL is what it’s called in dogs). The surgery requires a bone cut and plate installation and four months of recovery. 

And so the cultivating and harvest of slowness continues.. My girl is in a pen in the living room and I have shifted to complete work from home mode and sleeping next to her on a cot. 
I’ve started planning a Autumn/Winter garden for the first time in years, since I’ll be here to tend it, and I’m settling into a different pace and rhythm, rediscovering balance in my body (literally without a boot elevating my hip) and in my days too. 

In this time I am both harvesting slowness and continuing to tend new ways of growing it in my body, my mind and my life. 

What are you tending? Cultivating? Harvesting? 
Lughnasadh Card Spread

1. What energies are ready to be harvested in my inner garden?
   
2. How best can I work with these?
   
3. What is still growing in the beds of Self? 
   
4. What nutrients do they need?
   
5. How will what I harvest now and what I will be harvesting work best together? 
   

Pull a card for each question and spend some time journaling and reflecting on the answers. 

Book Club
Some time ago I asked if you’d be interested in a Summer Book Club. Many of you replied with a big YES!
I was all prepared to have us read a fiction book together and I got a head start to begin the ground work to create discussion questions and journal prompts.
After the first few chapters, I discovered something very important. 
I do not like to discuss fiction books I’m reading. I want to dive completely imaginatively into a story and lose myself there. 
I don’t want to share it. 
I want to savor it. 
And so I scrapped my notes and let myself just enjoy. And I highly recommend the book. 
Weyward by Emilia Hart is a bewitching work of  historical fiction and a wonderful venture into other lives and places. 

That being said, I don’t feel the same way about non-fiction. I enjoy chatting about it and am inviting you to chat with me. 
We will be reading Witch Crafting by Phyllis Currot. This book was written in 2001 and was one of the books I read and practiced with early in my witchery. It offers information and exercises through the Wiccan lens and I will be both interesting and fun to share with each other. 

This 6 week, 6 meeting book group, will meet for an hour on Saturdays starting August 17th. 
We will chat a bit about the book and then do one to two exercises from the chapters we have read. 
I have also crafted an off Facebook group where I will post questions for reflection/discussion and where you can also share your thoughts and questions. 
You can check out the details and sign up here

Shadow Work
Tomorrow (Monday the 29th) is our 7th sneak peek into the Priestess Path. During our mini lesson, we will chat about shadow work, its place in witchery and do an exercise to play with the concept. 
We gather at 10 am PT here https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86242100576
And you can catch all the replays here, also be sure to add your name to the waitlist for pre-registration for the next cohort that begins August 23rd!

The Cauldron-Autumn Equinox Edition
I am accepting submissions to the Cauldron digest, Autumn Equinox edition. 
Autumn witchery abounds! Bring your magic to the community, by submitting, poems, recipes articles or a spell/ritual. These submissions are not paid but you will receive a copy of the Autumn Digest and some Wise Woman Witchery swag for your entry. 
Email your submission to me at [email protected] with the subject “Fall Digest” no later than August 15th. 

Sending you all some slow Summer vibes, from my inner garden to yours. 

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