Creating your own Lughnasadh Altar

Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas is the Sabbat in which many the Pagan community celebrate the first of the harvest. This harvest festival is all about the grains. As with other Sabbats, it is about life, death and rebirth, and the turning of nature through all these stages. When you create your altar you have to look closely at the space you have available. Those who have a large table, or plan to build their altar outside will have more space and room to maneuver than someone who only has a shelf. Size doesn't matter in terms of altar, as long as you plan for what you have available to you.

~ Creating your Lughnasadh Altar ~

Lughnasadh stands on the backs of both Summer and Autumn so the colours you use is a combination of the fiery reds, oranges and yellows which capture the sun's power and the coming of the Autumn, but you can also have the greens, browns which represent the earth and harvest which is being collected. (I like to use golds as they remind me of the rolling gold fields of wheat which are being harvested at the moment.) Cover you altar in a cloth (or cloths) that you think symbolizes this change of season. Rich colours are very good to mix with greens and golds.

Some of the most iconic symbols for Lughnasadh are sheaves of grain and bread. You can also have other produce that is available this time of year, fresh Honey, Berries such as raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. (I like putting Sunflowers on my Lammas altar (when I can find them that is) - as they remind me of the sun and I mix them with Cornflowers and Poppies - these are autumnal flowers.) The Corn Dolly is another symbol that is very popular at Lughnasadh, and they can be fun to make with your witchlings .

Lughnasadh is a celebration where the Celtic God Lugh is venerated and celebrated and he is a god of arts and crafts. If you enjoy painting or drawing add a few of your supplies to your altar space, if you enjoy writing add a few pages and a pen, or a notebook - or any tool you use in your creativity. You can also have tools that are use in harvest, sickles and other metalworking tools, as Lugh is also a god of smithing/metalworking.

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