Welcome & Lughnasadh Ceremony Announcement
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And before we jump in, I just want to update you on a few little things that are happening over here at the Thirsty Soul. On the 11th of August, we will be celebrating in person in Fox Rock, County Dublin, at Lughnasadh with a ceremony called The Gifts Within Your Harvest. It’s an opportunity to celebrate all that you’ve created, survived, and grown through, so you can actually fully recognize all you’ve become. You’ll get a deeper understanding of it as I go through what Lughnasadh is today, of the beauty of actually taking time to do that.
Then, on the 31st of August, here in my home—so we can be out on the land—we will be celebrating the flowering of your soul, which is a day retreat following the beautiful feedback of the last day retreat. The story’s one: This is all about nurturing your soul and embracing the richness of life that surrounds you. So if you want to cultivate more sweetness in life, this is the place to be as we shape shift our past into fertilizer for the seeds held in our next harvest. It’s an opportunity to realign and redefine your soul’s journey and who you want to be as we step further into the year. Both of those ceremonies will be working with our little plants to help us go deeper into ourselves and see what we really need at that moment in time, too.
And then there are two little Riki events coming up online. The Inner Alignment with Riki is starting on the 5th of September, and it’s a six-week journey to be really nurtured and nourished—a place where you can tend to yourself, your soul’s essence, and life itself. It’s really a sanctuary to step away from the fast pace and really deeply connect with yourself with Reiki at any given moment. The feedback from the last one was beautiful, and I tailored it all to the group that gathers, so it’s really unique to each of you.
Then, at the end of September, on the 28th of September, in Shinpiden, Reiki 3, Reiki Master Levels, the traditional Japanese teachings will be taking place. And as always, all the information is on my website.
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The Essence of Lughnasadh
Let’s dive into this beautiful threshold of Lughnasadh, and as always, using only well enough to know, the first question is always to look outside and see how nature is speaking to you of your harvest, your blessings, your gifts, and your openness to all of life. Be curious as to what she is reflecting to you.
Lughnasadh is traditionally celebrated on the 1st of August, and the true date is on the 7th of August, so this lovely portal of time marks the turn towards autumn. I want to say it’s where we begin to see and feel that it’s the end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but I’m pretty sure many of you are probably thinking that summer did not really start this year at all.
With the lack of sunshine, I’ve heard so many people chat about it recently, but it is the end of summer, and autumn is gently coming towards us.
And as always, it’s that little opportunity—just like the summer solstice is that peak light energy—to acknowledge that, okay, slowly, slowly, we are moving towards the darker days.
Harvest Festival Reflections
This is the first harvest festival, and we again just tune in and say,
- “Okay, how am I feeling about the descent towards autumn and winter?
- Am I going to cling to summer?
- Am I going to complain about how there wasn’t a summer?”
- And if I don’t have, for me, it’s like, if I don’t have the heat in my bones, how will I sustain myself in the cold or otherwise?
But it’s a chance to consider: are you willing to embark on another descent towards autumn and winter?
And no two Lunasa are ever the same. Just like no two threshold points are ever the same. You’re different. It is different. How nature is reflecting at this time is completely different than last year.
For me, I’ve noticed there’s a tree I watch on my walks, and it’s a rowan tree, so I love watching it. Part of me begins to wonder, has it shown its little berries earlier this year? Because they’re all out. They’re not bright red, but they’re fairly there, because I don’t remember them being there last year.
And then a part of me wonders, is that just my mind playing little tricks on me? But it’s been so beautiful to see them, but a little bit of a shock as well, because I was like, “Whoa, I didn’t see you until September last year.” Now, it could have been so distracted by the sunshine last year, which I do remember. So it’s really interesting to watch those places that really call to us and notice what is there.
The roses in our garden haven’t bloomed in the same way they did last year. They’ve just been hit badly by the wind, the rain, and the cold. But a part of me hopes maybe they’ll get another little gross spurt out of them before the end of the year.
The Spirit of Lughnasadh and Sharing the Harvest
So, Lughnasadh is a festival, if you think of the film Dancing at Lughnasadh. It’s a celebration—the first of the Harvest Festival, the first of three, the last one being Samhain. It’s about abundance, gratitude, and joy.
So, taking the time to bite into what life has given you and really taste it, in the world that we live in—and maybe in the way that we’ve just been brought up—not much time was often given to sit down and sink into this moment.
Let’s really acknowledge how much work we’ve done here.
I remember when we would go up and gather the turf when we were little, and that would just be, “Okay, what’s the next thing that needs doing here?” Now look at that shed full of turf—haven’t we done well?
There were always those crisp sandwiches—the best thing I’ve ever tasted in my life, because you’re so hungry. But there was no real acknowledgment of the work done; I was always onto the next thing.
And that is one of the things that Lughnasadh is teaching us. Sometimes we think of our harvest only in terms of our productivity. “How much have I done?” Or in terms of what I’ve achieved, the external achievements. “What can I show for this?”
Because if I don’t have either of those, it’s not really real. That leaves us then always moving on to the next thing. Because we may think it’s never enough. What I’ve done is never enough. What I’ve achieved is not enough. It wasn’t perfect. There needs to be more. I’m sure there’s more to do. I’ve reached this level of growth, or my business has grown to this level, or companies will beckon that profits have reached this. Well, there’s no real acknowledgment of that.
How did we get here? What didn’t? It was like, “What’s next? More growth. Growth for the sake of growth.” And there was never the consideration of, “Well, what do we do with all this growth?
Maybe, how do we share it? How do others receive from it?”
When I worked in accountancy, there were always those lovely bonuses that were promised when you met targets. Of course, targets were set in ways that they were never going to be achieved. So, bonuses never really came, rather than setting targets that are reasonable, doable, and are not at the expense of everybody.
But then it’s like, “Everybody gets to receive from the business doing well. Everybody gets to be blessed by it,” versus just those who are in the top tier getting to receive the bounty from it. So, we’re also about sharing our harvest.
Experience the Juiciness of Life
I like to think of Lughnasadh as biting into the berries that you find growing along the bushes when you’re out walking—the blackberries—seeing the juice in your hands as you’re squeezing them, biting into them, and really tasting.
And often you’ll go, “God, that tastes far better than the ones you get in the shop.” But with that juiciness, you’re letting it in, and you’re letting it really take place in yourself. And that’s the same with our life.
And if we’re sitting at Lughnasadh, that’s why I called the ceremony “The Gifts Within Your Harvest,” because not all of our harvests are things that we can hold in our hands and say, “Look, this is what I created. This is what I have. Look, I can measure this. I can see the difference in this.”
Some of our harvests are internal. Some of our harvests have yet to actually emerge. But there are still gifts within pausing and looking at our harvest. So we can see the abundance and the beauty that may not be fully apparent or fully ready, but is within and around you.
Embrace Vulnerability and Receive Blessings
And our harvests are our personal harvests. Yes, it can be—do stop and pause and take in your external achievements. It’s not about ever dismissing those, but sometimes when they’re not there in life, we can end up saying, “Well, there’s nothing. I have nothing to show for it,” versus, “Yeah, I have a lot to show for it, even if it’s just what I’ve learned—what went wrong and how not to do that again.”
But we’re looking at our personal harvests.
- How have you grown in life?
- Where have you grown in life?
- What’s different in you as you stand at this turning point versus last year?
- What have you learned about yourself?
- What have you uncovered about yourself?
- What have you seen in yourself that you didn’t see before?
And sometimes those are the gifts that come through challenges. Sometimes they come through growth, where we see, “God, I had the strength to move on through that. I had the strength to reach out for that. I had the strength to say, ‘This is it; I’m done with this. I am moving forward,’ or, ‘I’m taking this back,’ or, ‘I’m choosing myself. I’m choosing to stand up for myself. I’m choosing to care for myself, to love myself.'”
And sometimes it’s through the challenges that maybe we realize, as I stand here looking at my harvests, “I realize I haven’t even tended my own.” I’ve been growing everybody else’s. I’ve been putting so much energy into, say, somebody else’s work, or their business, or whatever it may be, or somebody else’s life, and you’re going, “Oh my god, I forgot about my own life. I forgot about my own relationships. I forgot about my own family.”
And that gives us the beautiful gift of saying, “Oh, okay, that’s okay. Maybe I better pull the swallow,” but I can pause now and reassess things.
Gain Perspective from the Higher View
Then sometimes we actually receive from giving so generously to others. We might not receive in that moment, but we receive the blessings from it, so obviously it depends on our needs and what’s going on in our life.
Because sometimes there are blessings in the sharing, and then helping others to grow definitely, but maybe if you’re the self-sacrificer, the people-pleaser, who’s learned not to tend to yourself, not to go after what you want, then maybe it’s like, “Oh, actually, this can be a moment of adjustment for me.”
Our harvests all come in different forms; you may be able to name it, but more than likely you may not be able to name it, but you have been growing—maybe you just haven’t seen where you’re growing because you’ve tended yourself, hopefully—and maybe the growth is not in the area that you wanted, but maybe it’s in the area that you needed it.
Trust the Process of Growth
So by taking this moment of pause—and if you think Lughnasadh is associated with go sit at the top of the mountain—you take this moment of pause and imagine that you’re at the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain, you have almost a bird’s-eye view, but you’ve got a bigger picture of you.
Look at the bigger picture of your life—maybe from the season of last year, or even last Lughnasadh—and go, “Okay, what were the seeds that I said I wanted to tend to and look after and grow?
What were the areas of life I really wanted to sink my teeth into, give time and energy and focus to, and have I committed to that, or did I get sidetracked? Did I get pulled off guard? Did other things happen that I had to lay them down in time?”
Because when we can look at the bigger picture, we may have an understanding of, “Yeah, actually, my intention was to— I know my intention was to be able to climb Kilimanjaro or something,” and then you realize, “Well, actually no—there was illness in my family, so I chose instead to tend to my loved ones,” versus if we just only looked at, “Oh, well, I haven’t climbed Kilimanjaro,” we’d forget what was there, what was happening in life, and we can end up beating ourselves up.
Reflect on Inner Gifts and Divine Energy
And as much as we would all love to harvest and grow without any effort, a harvest does take effort, and we have to trust that the energy, time, focus that we put into it will eventually yield results.
Somewhere along the way, we will potentially receive from it—maybe not today, maybe not this year; maybe it’s something you’re working on that will take time.
If you were writing a book, you might not see the full harvest until you’ve finished all the editing with the publishers, and then you’re sitting with your book, going, “There’s my little baby, there’s my little project,” and then the next phase of that—if you think the seeds from that harvest could be—you’re sitting in a room chatting with people about your book, “Oh, there’s something else I’ve received from this gift,” and people are also receiving from that gift.
And that’s that—knowingness and trusting in this spiral of life versus the linear, like, “If I’ve done this, I should get that; if I’ve tended to this now, there should be results this minute.” And yes, obviously there can be things prohibiting you from growing in the way you want, but also sometimes it is the life cycle of something, so we trust that the seeds we’re sowing— that we’ve been tending, nurturing, growing—will eventually yield a harvest.
We cannot rush the harvest, just as all farmers know there’s a certain moment to start cutting the hay to bring it in, depending on what you’re going to use it for.
Your gifts and natural talents
For me, this time of year is that beautiful place to pause and think and reflect on your gifts, the skills that you carry within.
If you think, for example, Lughnasadh is associated with the sun god Lu, who was the chief of the Tuatha de Danann—the Irish gods and goddesses—and he was seen as a god of many gifts, of gifts and talents, and who harnessed the light of the sun, so it’s reflecting to us, you know, “what are my gifts? What are my skills?”
And there are parts sometimes that you don’t see or that you take for granted; we dismiss them too easily because it’s just, “Well, that’s just who I am,” and you may not even notice, or you might say to somebody else, “Oh my god, just the way you—like the way you do those numbers in your head, like, ‘Oh my god, that’s amazing,'” or the way you appreciate the beauty of your little designer Instagram, “Oh my god, I just love that there,” or the way you bake those cakes, “Oh my god, I haven’t tasted a cake like that in years.”
Or that lovely jam that you get at this time of year—my mother’s making jam at the minute—that’s a gift. I often joke, “My mum deals, not in drugs, but in jam,” and we have people come and visit and they’re giving pots of jam on very many occasions. I once told a story, years ago, at a shamanic gathering, and everybody laughed because it was like, “Yeah, my mum deals in jam.” But that’s a gift that she then shares with other people without even realizing it, because it’s just jam. Sure, everyone makes jam, but there’s only a certain apple jelly jam that I will eat—black currant jam.
The Call for Soul Expression
I see this often when I work with clients—especially many women—with soul expression. There is something deep within that wants to be given life, to be given a voice, to be shared, to be expressed.
It does not have to be a business; it can simply be part of life.
It can be in your projects, your writing, your drawing, your knitting—whatever it is: raising your children, raising yourself, your relationships.
But something within you wants to be expressed.
How long will you keep that song within you, afraid to let it out, afraid of what others might think, say, or do?
And then that soul song—your soul expression—may never get a chance to shine.
Each of us has our own unique gifts, our own unique light, and yet we are all connected to the web of light. All our individual lights are needed. Lighten up the web.
- What would it be like to live from that place of full radiance?
- How would you use the gifts—the things that you keep inside that are uniquely yours?
Use these gifts, this power, this energy to help things grow, to help life change, to help the world change. Sometimes we focus so much on what is in our way that we forget to come to the light—to sit with our inner light, to be in it and receive from it, to allow it to support our way forward.
So there are these gifts that you naturally have, and often we can’t see them; they’re like hiding in plain sight, and you’re probably using them every day and still don’t even notice them, or we dismiss them because they’re not flashy or we don’t think they’re that unique, or we compare them to other people, like, “Oh well, Mary down the road—she’s running a successful business; oh sure, look at me, I’m just starting mine,” or, “Mary down the road, my god, she’s great at writing, and sure, like, I can’t do that for nothing.”
But you don’t see the beauty of how you craft something, of how you make an experience when people come to dinner—that it’s this wholehearted entertainment, laughter—you just don’t notice it.
And there will be gifts that you’ve cultivated, that you’ve grown, that you’ve tended to, and then there are gifts that we have that we’ve been given through our ancestry, that run in our line.
I was chatting with somebody recently who works with herbs, and it’s in their family line—that’s a gift that has been passed down, that they keep alive within them.
And then maybe you think of an artist—you can have a natural talent as an artist, but it still has to be cultivated, nurtured over the course of your life. The same with somebody who plays the piano or the violin—there can be a natural gift, but it still needs to be honed, fine-tuned; it will still need mentorship.
And the same with the gifts within you.
What, maybe, are your gifts, your talents, that are part of your soul’s gifts that you’ve put to the side because maybe you think you can’t do anything with them, or sure, nobody would want that, or it’s not that special?
And what would it take for you to allow them to come out again—to begin to play with them, to begin to experiment with them, to be curious about them, to treat them with very light hands?
Reflect on your Talents at Lunasa
I think of our gifts and our talents, and sometimes they’re not even things that we do—they’re just who we are. A beautiful talent can be being able just to sit and listen to somebody, and for them to feel deeply heard.
A beautiful talent can be knowing how to sit in deep compassion and empathy with somebody without trying to fix it. A talent can be, as I mentioned, hosting a marvelous dinner party or picnic without even realizing the magic of it.
A talent is being able to navigate a handful of kids and keep them entertained; there are so many ways it can be, and it’s who we are—it’s natural in us, but maybe we just don’t see it, or because we haven’t made a career out of it, we dismiss it.
So maybe at Lughnasadh I take time to sit down and journal about what are my gifts and my talents.
If you feel courageous, maybe ask a really good, trusted friend, “What does she see in you? What are the skills and talents that she sees in you?”
And if you’re somebody who works with people and you’re like, “I don’t know if I’m doing any good work, or I don’t think I’m that different,” and it’s not about being special—it’s about just noticing your differentiation.
Maybe ask your clients, “Why do you come to me versus everybody else that is out there?” Because then you can begin to tend to them, acknowledge them, grow them, and it helps you to grow when you’re confident in yourself too.
And imagine then, so you have, through your own eyes, what you see; through maybe a friend’s eyes, what you see; through others’ eyes—what are the talents that others see in you—the gifts, what are the gifts, and the talents that your ancestors see in you—so you’re seeing yourself through other eyes, and that can help us to connect to our soul’s gifts.
We were all born with them, and when we connect to that, it’s not that we have to make a profit out of it or do something with it, but we know, “Okay, this is something I’m here to share with myself, my family, maybe beyond that.”
Maybe by acknowledging what has been abundant for you—maybe you’ve had an abundance of time, maybe you’ve had an abundance of energy—how can you offer that back to someone, to the earth?
Because the earth gifts us so much, Lughnasadh, any time of year, but Lughnasadh is a beautiful time to gift back to the earth.
Honor the Gifts of the Earth at Lunasa
I have a picture from the Bridget’s Gardens up in Sligo, I think it is, and they have a beautiful statue where there’s a little person, and they’re on their knees, sort of like in child’s pose, if you think, but the hands are touching the earth, palms down.
I absolutely adore that statue, and for me, that’s like Lughnasadh energy—it’s that bowing to the earth, giving thanks. Maybe you take some of your extra bounty, take a little piece of sugar, alcohol, and gift it back to the earth.
Maybe you go out to your garden or go out for a walk along the path, see what abundance there is, and ask for permission to take it from maybe the plant, the tree, the little nettle seeds, the meadowsweet, the little poppies—whatever the harvest is—maybe gather a lovely little bundle, a little wild offering, and then take it to a place that means something to you, or even to the edge of the water, and gift it back to the earth with thanks for all that she has given you, for all the way she’s held you throughout the year.
Overcome Limitations and Embrace Growth
And if you think about a harvest, or gifts—I’ve chatted about it, and you know it takes effort—and what gets in our way of that, you know, if I haven’t maybe gotten to where I want to be, or maybe haven’t become who I wanted to be at this moment, the full reflection of that, or there are challenges in life, or I’m going, “Oh, that just hasn’t turned out the way I thought it would.”
What comes up is: Is it the fear that we don’t have it in us? Is it the limitations that maybe got in the way—the beliefs, the patterns that maybe prevented you from growing what you wanted to flourish?
And that’s okay, because sometimes when we’re growing and expanding, and wanting to bring a part of ourselves to life or out into the world and share it, or if we have a project that we want to gift to the world, we’re meeting those edge places, and we’re going to meet those parts that are tender—so it’s even just to take note of those for now, and notice, actually, “Yeah, that belief kept showing up, but I just didn’t know what to do with it, or I didn’t really think it was that serious.”
I’ve been thinking that way for my lifetime; I didn’t really think I was thinking that much of a difference, and now maybe you do—maybe you realize that you know you needed support to actually grow and expand in the way you want.
Maybe you thought initially, “Yeah, sure, I can just do this all by myself,” and then now you’re sitting and thinking, “Actually, I need help to really grow this here. I need maybe a mentor who’s walked this path and can show me a few shortcuts.
Do I have to keep making this so hard for myself? Maybe I need the motivation, the accountability, and an external person to provide that for me?” Maybe you need help with the pattern of self-doubt, like, “Yeah, I don’t know why I keep saying I’m going to grow that, because sure, I never do it, because maybe the doubts just set in and, sure, I can’t do that—or what would happen if I did?”
And so it’s also an opportunity to sit with the fears that come up, because, “What if it did come to fruition? What if the thing that is in your heart that you really want to grow into, to have in life—and that could be a project, a relationship, a way of being vulnerable— you know, being able to say no—do you know, these things may seem seemingly simple.
I want to grow the ability to take care of myself, but if you’ve been programmed for 40, 50, or whatever number of years to put everybody else first to your detriment, naturally there’s going to be a fear around that area of growth: What if it did come to fruition, and I could really tend to myself, care for myself?
What are the little thoughts that come up? Maybe I think, ‘Oh my god, everybody will just abandon me because, sure, don’t they need me? Will I be alone? Maybe they’ll think I’m selfish—only selfish people look after themselves, don’t they?'” Notice in the internal dialogue.
Define What Success Means to You
But another thing to question is the idea of success. What does success mean to you? What does it look like?
According to Instagram, it’s you’re only successful if you’ve got a back fat, if you’re flat-tummy, you have no wrinkles, and you have your seven-figure business or whatever, and it can be very easy to get sucked into other people’s definitions of success.
What is your definition of success?
Not one that keeps you— I don’t want to say keeps you small—but you know, I would meet so many people who own businesses, and while supporting them through blocks and the energetic sides of it, they’d say, “Well, you know, I don’t need much,” and there’s a poverty, a scarcity belief running, hidden beneath the surface: “Well, I don’t need much, so I won’t ask for much, and I won’t receive much.”
So check that: Is my success limited by fear, by beliefs, maybe by ancestral stuff?
And finding that sweet spot for you—like my definition of success is quite simple: I have space. That’s literally it—to be able to have space in my days just to be, to go out for walks, to do my workouts, to make dolls, to sit at my altar—space is a priority.
In your 20s, your definition of success is going to be different from your 30s, your 40s, your 50s, your 60s, so we have to keep checking in with it.
Lughnasadh has a beautiful time for that, and so it is this opportunity to stop, take stock, and celebrate, and remember the beauty of sharing your abundance, your blessings, and gifts with others.
And when others are sharing their abundance, blessings, and gifts with you, you truly receive them with an open heart. And don’t do what the usual good Irish thing is—”Oh no, no, no, no”—and give that back as well.
Really receive it in and witness that beauty in giving freely and receiving freely, because we receive so much from giving, from sharing, as we do from receiving.
Let gratitude be your anchor at Lunasa
So this time of year—if I have grown, if I have the abundance, if my harvest is there, whether it’s internal or external—I truly let myself feel it, receive it, and experience it in the cells of my being.
Because if you think, “Hey, you’ve planted seeds, you’ve overcome challenges, you’ve invested your time, energy, resources,” no matter where you are, you need to honor how far you’ve come.
Because no matter what, I hope you’re not in the exact same place as you were last year, and even if you think you are, I’m sure if you looked closely, you’re not.
And we anchor ourselves in the gratitude for the actions that we have taken from our heart and soul to get here, and yes, some of those actions may have taken us off track— that’s okay, we can readjust.
But we have gratitude for the path that we have been able to journey, for the choices we have been able to make, for having the courage to make choices. And they’re never right or wrong; they’re just choices.
But by pausing to consider the journey so far, we get to reflect on the path ahead, too—what you need to feel resourceful moving forward. And gratitude is what keeps us buoyed.
I like to think at all times—and especially when things maybe aren’t going according to plan—that all of life is to be celebrated: the highs, the lows, and everything in between—maybe not in that moment, but at some stage.
And it’s not just about an attitude of gratitude; it’s the wonder and awe of the things in life that can feed our spirit.
No matter where we are, we allow ourselves to be touched by the beauty of the world, so we can feel more alive and abundant. We can walk outside at Lughnasadh, and there’s a different color to Lughnasadh than there might be at golden summer solstice, but there’s still so much blossoming in a different way, and we can allow ourselves to receive that, and to see beauty.
So we’re teaching ourselves to walk the path of beauty, to see beauty all around us, in the smallest things, and not just outside in nature, maybe in our houses, maybe in ourselves.
And when we’re grateful for ourselves and grateful for life itself, we are connected to the creative flow of life even more. We allow ourselves not to become fully stagnant in any place, and we let ourselves soak up the goodness of life.
We let ourselves touch all of life, and let ourselves be touched by life, and your harvest will contain the seeds for your future growth.
Notice the seeds for future growth
So even the things that you may decide to compost, or decide, “I don’t know why I decide to focus all my energy on that—that’s not actually what I want; that’s not where I need to direct my energy anymore. I’m being called a distraction,” can be the seeds for future growth.
They can be composted and used for something else, and maybe even consider what are the seeds that you’re saving, that you’ll plant at a future time.
And it’s almost like the little dandelion, where it has this little yellow head and it turns into a little—I’m going to call it a feather—I don’t know what you would call it—the little seeds part of it, and then they blow; the wind takes them and carries them off, and they don’t know where they’re going, and they may not know how they’re going to grow again, but they will, and they do.
So sometimes we have to trust that the seeds that we have, that we take from our harvest, will grow into something.
The Juiciness of Life & Your Time for Self Reflection
And as I begin to wrap up, there’s just maybe one final thing to tap into: the joy of it all, the beauty of it all, the juiciness—I call it the juiciness of it all. Notice, how can Lughnasadh support me wherever I am, whatever season I find myself in at this time, to know that all is not lost, that I can adjust, nurture, and compost, so I’m ready for another cycle?
I do not need to rush any of that.
This is the first harvest. I may be impatient, so I lean in to trust and notice and bring awareness to what is happening in life.
And what if I were to allow the juiciness of life to guide my way forward? The joy of life to guide my way forward—what would that look like and feel like?
So the invitation is to check in with yourself:
- How is your soul? The gifts of your soul, your soul growing—maybe look at what’s ready to be harvested in your life.
- What are the blessings in your life, and can you bless the things that have been challenging?
- Can you give love to them and understanding to them, and maybe to parts of yourself?
- And where do you find joy, within you and around you?
- How can you tap into that more?
What if you were to take the name of that film, “Dancing with Lughnasadh,” and have a good dance at Lughnasadh to celebrate and honor all that you are?
And between now and the final harvest at sound, what would you like to put your resources, focus, energy, and time into?
And notice where you are grasping at your harvest, and remember that you don’t have to keep everything that you harvest. It’s okay to lay some of it down and share it, and nothing grows alone.
So, who has supported you throughout these seasons?
Who has helped you to receive a bounty, to receive your harvest?
Maybe take a few moments to thank them and give blessings to them, because we do not walk this path alone.
Closing Blessings
Go celebrate all that you are, and all that you are yet to become, because no matter what your harvest, there is always beauty within you and abundance within you. So many, many blessings for Lughnasadh, taking time between the first and the seventh of August to honor it in whatever way feels appropriate for you. And I look forward to connecting with you next time.
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