01/08/2026
Today, the 1st August, is the ancient Gaelic harvest Festival of Lughnasagh. It is the beginning of Autumn and the anticipation of the harvesting of crops. Today, I welcome in the Celtic god Lughnasagh to open the direction of the west, the third quarter of my medicine wheel. We give thanks for the good summer and the fruitful harvest of crops and fruit it brings forth. This is the time of year when we celebrate this festival and all the farming shows and other events take place at this time.
This third quarter in the direction of the west connects with the moon and represents evening, and the adulthood stage of life. It represents the element of water and is linked to the planet Saturn. It is also connected to the aspect of the heart, our physical well-being, introspective and insight, a place where we hold the strongest energy. This direction is represented by the ceremonial plant of Sage and the herb Thyme.
This third quarter of the medicine wheel is planted with autumnal colour, imbued with cleansed, charged and concentrated crystals of red jasper, aquamarine, Carnelian, amber, peridot and clear quartz, significant to the season, element the Celtic Festival and god Lughnasadh. Placed into the earth of the third quarter of the west with the blessing of Lughnasagh and the Spirit animal of the west, Jaguar, who in Shamanic traditional healing and ceremony, eats all heavy energy in its path. She has no fear in this world or the next and protects our medicine space from unwanted energies and entities. She treads softly across the jungle floor, teaches us the way of peace and shows us the way beyond death itself.
As with the change of season and the energy, so too, does the internal energy change, represented by the change from summer colours to autumnal within the healing space. As within so without, as above so below.
This is a time of reflection on our own personal fruits we bring forth this year and give gratitude for our own personal harvest for this year.