“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between
self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first
getting enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
~Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Love your Mama.
Love her up every day.
Here in the Northern hemisphere, we are entering into the Lughnasa festival days. Lughnasa (or Lughnasadh) is a traditional Celtic celebration time that marks the beginning of the harvest season in the northern hemisphere. Lughnasa was celebrated in early August all over Ireland and Scotland for centuries.
Legend tells us that the ancient Celtic God Lugh created this harvest festival time in honor of his Earth Goddess Mother Tailtiu. Traditional Lughnasa rituals included an offering of the first of the corn, harvest feasts, athletic contests, bull sacrifice, and ritual dancing. The Lughnasa custom of climbing hills and mountains has survived in some areas to this day.
Now is the perfect time to honor the abundance and harvest in your life. Offer up your gratitude to Earth and Sky for the good things that have shown up in your life this year. Honor everything from your garden harvest to new friendships, children’s milestones, new jobs, your health… any and every bit of abundance in your life.
#harvest
#abundance
#gratitude
#Lughnasa
#celebrate
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
~Edward Abbey
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image: Wild Mountain Bergamot
by Nancy L
“To connect with God, we first have to connect with nature, and to connect with nature, we have to awaken to the dark. That is why he (Rebbe Nachman) advised his disciples to follow a solitary path into the darkness outside the city, and to enlist the aid of plants and flowers once they got there. To follow nature and return to nature—that itself was the path to God.”
~Clark Strand, Waking Up to the Dark,
Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age
“We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature
to relationship with nature. The moment you change
from ownership to relationship,
you create a sense of the sacred.”
~Satish Kumar
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#WeDontOwnNature
#relate
#listen
#honor
#love
Image: Meadows & Mountains
by Nancy L
#EarthArt
#ProtectandHonorOurEarth
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#longestday
#celebrate
#sunshine
#summer
#fairies
#magic
#light
#power
#yang
#revel
#play
#joy
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Summer Solstice is June 20th, 2021.
(in US)
Image: Puck and Dancing Fairies
by Richard Dadd, (~1840)
‘When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal.
I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.’
~Anthony Douglas Williams
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Image: Kim Schandorff via Getty Images
