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This is a good time todiscuss pooling resources, maybe setting aside coven monies should one member findthemselves short when trying to pay their heating bills or buying gifts for their children.Hosting public festivals in order to raise capital for such eventualities is not overlycapitalistic.

Vanilla and mintice cream make wonderful deserts for this celebration, as does lemon Italian ice.

If the summer heat is not enough or if you want the visuals of a fire, the evening willbe greatly complimented with a roaring bonfire, drumming, and dancing.

However,hosts and hostesses should pay close attention to their guests hydration and signs ofhot weather injuries.

Remember that ritual is sacred theater that celebrates real life,and as the heat is very real it will be an influence on your ritual.

Should the Summer beparticularly hot, rites based on the story of Persephone are appropriate without re-spect to which side of the equator one finds oneself.

This is a wonderful way to educatechildren as to the importance of balance.

See Summer SolsticeLughnasadh Incense4 parts Frankincense2 parts Lavender1 part HeatherLughnasadh Oil10 drops Frankincense10 drops Lavender SolitaryGeneralIt is likely the name Lughnasadh comes from the god Lugh.

Intheir book Eight Sabbats for Witches, the Farrars tell us the translation is the com-memoration of Lugh.

Now remember, I do very muchbelieve Wicca is a world religion, but as this is the name so many use to note this Holi-day we should wonder: Just who is Lugh 152 A Wiccan Bible Lugh is sometimes called Lugh Samhioldanach, which means Lugh of the manyarts.

Other times he is called Lugh Lamhfhada, which means Lugh of the long hand.Although Winter Solstice and the cultural gift giving season is still several months off,this is an excellent time to incorporate crafts into ones Holiday activities.

The weatheris good enough that spending long hours looking for pinecones, acorns, and other naturalmaterials to make Yule ornaments and gifts will be pleasant and fruitful.

CoupleLove sport is most appropriate to this Holiday, especially games involvinga chase theme.

This Holiday often marks the first harvest, the first capture (harvest)after a season of tending to the crops (chase).

Even if finances are a bit stretched,spending a bit of extra money on a nice dinner or entertainment with the theme ofushering future harvests is an excellent way to include sympathetic spellcraft into thisrite.

Lughnasadh celebrates much more than the fertilityof the field.

It is also tied to the marriage and fertility rites of Lugh and his bride.

CovenHouseholdThis is a time of introspect for Covens and Households.

Thefirst harvest has been taken in and from it one can begin to judge what the next harvestswill be like.

With that information, one can begin to judge what the Winter food supplywill look like.

Although most of us do not live directly off the land, there are someequally pressing issues facing covens and households.

In general, many covens do not take on new members in the Winter because tradi-tionally that which a coven or household requires to survive that winter (food andsupplies) has already been calculated and set aside.

An interesting correlation to thisprinciple is that when one faces reality, a modern household or coven has certain mon-etary requirements.

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