Gather 'round as we celebrate the first harvest festival of the year, Lammas. During this festival, we toast to Danu, the primordial Irish mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and Lugh, Irish god of light, skill, and craftsmanship. We will partake of the harvest by sharing an offering of bread and sacrificing a portion in our community fire. We will dance and sing around the fire while giving thanks for our own fecundity, the fecundity of the earth, the light that burns within and without, and the skill and labor of our hands, heads, and hearts. This ritual is offered by the members of the Order of the World Tree, a coven of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a syncretic Wiccan Tradition dedicated to the health of the earth and to all her children in whatever forms they may take.
