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Lughnasadh<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s pronounced LEW-NAS-AH.\u00a0 One of the eight Pagan Sabbats, the focus is typically on an early harvest aspect and\/or celebrations of the Celtic god Lugh.\u00a0 During the Middle Ages it included large gatherings for ceremonies, athletic contests, horse racing and feasting, among other activities.\u00a0 More recently, Lughnasadh observances were typically held atop hills and mountains.\u00a0 The tradition of climbing hills and mountains has survived in some areas, reinterpreted as Christian pilgrimages.\u00a0 (I’m thinking Sound of Music\u00a0<\/em>in robes, but that can’t be right.)\u00a0 Since the late twentieth century, Celtic neopagans (us, kinda) have celebrated Lughnasadh–or observances based on it–as religious holidays.<\/p>\n Hey, any excuse for a party!<\/p>\n (Sources: Wikipedia, learnreligions.com)<\/p>\n MUSIC Review<\/strong><\/p>\n Abundant Lughnasadh~Chant for August Eve and Lammas<\/em> by Flora Ware with Heidi McCurdy<\/p>\n Flora Ware is a Ceremonial Priestess and a Cyclic Living Teacher, among many other wonderful things.\u00a0 I discovered her work as a sacred musician while researching songs for this Lughnasadh column.\u00a0 I like her music, love her blog and recommend her website.<\/p>\n Heidi McCurdy has a blog too!\u00a0 She is a singer, voice coach, songwriter and sound healer.\u00a0 Her musical style has been described as jazz-pop with wit and soul.<\/p>\n Abundant Lughnasadh<\/em> is a lovely song.\u00a0 Spiritual.\u00a0 I like the video.\u00a0 I think you will too.\u00a0 Google the song title.<\/p>\n Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n Weyland has to stay in shape to keep up with Sparkle and the furkids!\u00a0 His attempts to do so include yoga, powerwalking and the occasional stairmaster.\u00a0 But despite his best efforts, Delinquent the dog can still outrun him.\u00a0 Send your canine congrats to weylandsmith@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lughnasadh It’s pronounced LEW-NAS-AH.\u00a0 One of the eight Pagan Sabbats, the focus is typically on an early harvest aspect and\/or celebrations of the Celtic god Lugh.\u00a0 During the Middle Ages it included large gatherings for ceremonies, athletic contests, horse racing and feasting, among other activities.\u00a0 More recently, Lughnasadh observances were typically held atop hills and mountains.\u00a0 The tradition of climbing hills and mountains has survived in some areas, reinterpreted as Christian pilgrimages.\u00a0 (I’m thinking Sound of Music\u00a0in robes, but that can’t be right.)\u00a0 Since the late twentieth century, Celtic neopagans (us, kinda) have celebrated Lughnasadh–or observances based on it–as religious holidays. Hey, any excuse for a party! (Sources: Wikipedia, learnreligions.com) MUSIC Review Abundant Lughnasadh~Chant for August Eve and Lammas by Flora Ware with Heidi McCurdy Flora Ware is a Ceremonial Priestess and a Cyclic Living Teacher, among many other wonderful things.\u00a0 I discovered her work as a sacred musician while researching songs for this Lughnasadh column.\u00a0 I like her music, love her blog and recommend her website. Heidi McCurdy has a blog too!\u00a0 She is a singer, voice coach, songwriter and sound healer.\u00a0 Her musical style has been described as jazz-pop with wit and soul. Abundant Lughnasadh is a lovely song.\u00a0 Spiritual.\u00a0 I like the video.\u00a0 I think you will too.\u00a0 Google the song title. Bio Weyland has to stay in shape to keep up with Sparkle and the furkids!\u00a0 His attempts to do so include yoga, powerwalking and the occasional stairmaster.\u00a0 But despite his best efforts, Delinquent the dog can still outrun him.\u00a0 Send your canine congrats to weylandsmith@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30277,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions\/30277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}