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August 1 or 2 is traditionally the beginning of the harvest season, and Lammas is a night for us to reap what we've sown all year. We can do this in normal waking consciousness by following through on long-range projects and workings. Magically, harvest season is an important time to see if long-range rites are working as we had hoped. It's a great time to look after your own magical and material prosperity.

The Lammas rite recognizes this harvest thought-form, as well as the fact that the nights are getting longer. We are approaching the dark months, though fall may still seem far away in the warm days of early August.

Gather materials for a prosperity spell of some sort---the kind of magic that will work best on this night. Choose as deity that you feel will be beneficial to such magics.

Also, find a Lammas symbol. This must be something that still has some life in it---something that is still green, if you will. Yet it must be something that will inevitably die. A fresh-cut flower is excellent, particularly the aromatic Lily that reminds us of the season approaching. You can also use the branch of a small plant. Keep this temporarily living object in a small vase or cup of water for the rite, and position the drink and treat to touch the container.



The Lammas rite

Cast a circle

Skry the nocturnal portal as you say:

Cut and gathered, before the withering begins, is the bounty

May we harvest all we can from these potent hours of darkness.

May we potently use the many hours of darkness approaching.

Spend a few moments allowing any symbols that appear to you for later interpretation.

Invoke your chosen deity.

Perform any magic you have prepared.

Standing before your alter, spend a few moments observing the cup or vase holding the Lammas symbol. Imagine that the cup is glowing green. The entire container houses life-giving energy.

Now try to see the Ethric double of the Lammas symbol. It is a glowing, silver version of the plant or flower that permeates the entire living thing. You should be able to imagine the entire stem, even the part disappearing into the cup or vase. See how the silver line of the stem is surrounded and nourished by the green, glowing water.

Now, imagine that the pointed finger on your receiving hand has, connected to it, a black sickle blade. This should seem blacker in your open-eyed visualization than does the candlelit darkness around you.

Gaze again at the Lammas symbol, and it's merging of green and silver energy.

Spin around 3 times counterclockwise, catching a glimpse of the glowing symbol each time.

At the end of your last rotation, slash at the center of the cup or vase with your Ethric sickle. See a disruption of the green and silver energy fields, and feel some of the energy of each of those fields rush up your sickle and into your receiving arm.

Quickly pull the plant out of the cup or vase with your projecting hand. Lay the symbol on the altar with it's top or the flower touching the treat and it's stem base touching the cup holding the drink. Note how it's silver glow is still there yet fainter.

Allow the imagined sickle to dissipate. Then, lift with your receiving hand the cup or vase that is still glowing very green. Use the finger of your projecting hand to sprinkle a few drops of the glowing water on both your drink and treat. As you do so, say:

For our use, from the God's life energy.

Return he cup to the alter.

Thank the deity for helping you this night.

Close the Circle.

Take part in the specially charged drink and treat.

Hang the Lammas plant or flower somewhere out of reach to let it dry out. You can then store it someplace safe and pick it up whenever you need a quick infusion of energy.



Blessed Be, JocelynRouge



Taken from the Gothic Grimoire by Konstantinos

Pgs: 44-46 Llewellyn worldwide