A LUGHNASADH CEREMONY

We record our Year With the Wheel Lughnasadh ceremony. Lughnasadh falls at the traditional time for holiday, so it ensures we can have a holiday and that our Women of the Wheel don't miss it.

One of the unexpected benefits of recording was that I could experience it myself this morning!

With my crazy, spun-out summer diary, I woke early to spend an hour listening back. It was so gorgeous! Even the parts that made me laugh at myself (is 1000 000 000 a billion? Surely its not a thousand million which is what I heard myself say!)

I let myself me held in this ceremony, my friend and I had created to celebrate Lughnasadh.

Through settling into the time of year and through the rituals of the ceremony I knew I was overwhelmed, had a sense of Lughnasadh bringing waaaay too much to harvest. Having planted too much earlier in the year, it all now needed bringing in at once! I set the intention then to plant less next year, or at least only a few seeds at a time not all at once!

And then listening to the meditation I heard the words 'I was there at the beginning of time'.. 'I am connected to all'... and then some words arose (the ones that seem to come out of nowhere) 'the cells are not the basic structure of all'. Those words kept ringing in my ears... 'the cells are not the basic structure of all'. What did that mean? And then as Juanna spoke the words 'shimmering emptiness' I knew that it is 'the shimmering emptiness that is the basic structure of all'. It felt deep and profound!

I let myself drop into the shimmering emptiness and rest there a while. The chimes we'd recorded with the meditation, at some point turned into sunlight on the water, then being by the coast listening to the chiming of the halyards on the masts of yachts in the harbour with a sense of being on holiday.

In just an hour this ceremony had brought me from a sense of overwhelm to a feeling of being on holiday. I felt easier... more spacious... with more perspective.... not just calmer but calm...melty... held... loved.

I am so grateful for this journey of travelling in ceremony through the wheel of the year.