In modern Pagan calendars this is celebrated as an agricultural festival: the Feast of First Harvest. If it was marked at all by the Druids, it would most probably have been the last mating of the summer or the beginning of fattening the animals slated for slaughter at Samhain.
The grain is strong, and Lugh the Long Arm, the sun god, roams among us. Celtic fire festivals are typically celebrated at dusk the night before, as the Celts believed that the old day died when the sun set, and the new day was born in darkness.
Drinking beer, eating bread stuffed with summer vegetables, making offerings of canned goods to a local shelter, all of these are good things to do tomorrow night or on Friday.
You cannot plant in a field that is ripe and ready for harvest. This is a night for thanksgiving and celebration of what you have. For really appreciating all the blessings in your life. A time not to dwell on what you don't have, but to really praise all that you do have.
The God Lugh loves gardeners. Don't be surprised if he shows up at your Circle or ritual.
PRAISES, THANKS, & BLESSINGS!!!
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