We are but wayward leaves, scattered to the air by an indifferent wind.Over the Garden Wall (2014) 🍂🍁🎃🍁🍂
First Harvest for Subtle Witches
Happy Lughnasadh / Lammas to everyone! The first harvest celebration of the year is finally upon us.
Since my last post about this holiday was so popular, I decided to add a few more suggestions for how to celebrate to the list:
🌾 Head into the garden - Now is the perfect day for an extended loop around the garden to check on how everything is progressing. Grab a basket and harvest anything ripe to incorporate into your food or turn into a spot of color in the form of a flower arrangement. Bringing the bounty of your garden into your home is the perfect way to celebrate all that you have been given this year.
🍞 Prepare food for storage - Make a pie filling and freeze it, put some pickles away in the fridge, or can a few pints of green beans. What better way to celebrate the first harvest than by preserving it so that it may be savored during the long dark of winter. While preparing your food, take some time to think about what you want to bring with you into the next season. Leave what you don’t need behind you and carry the bounty of your life forward.
🌾 Design a sigil for abundance - In honor of the season of abundance, create a sigil you can use wherever and however you please to encourage more abundance into your life. Draw it into your budgeting notebook, paint it onto your skin with moisturizer before a big day, or maybe stitch it into the outfit you plan to wear to an interview, for the first day of your new job, or at the start of the school year. Let the energy of today be your inspiration!
🍞 Soak in the summer rays - The first harvest marks the beginning of the end of the summer so take some time out to appreciate the season coming to an end. In many places it’ll be warm and sunny for a while yet, but now is a perfect opportunity to take a step back and reflect on your summer so far and if there’s anything you’d like to do before it reaches its conclusion. Take advantage of the still-long summer days and warm nights because before you know it the wheel will have turned and fall will be upon us.
✨magical adventures for every season✨
spring🌱🐇: falling down a rabbit hole, exploring an abandoned castle, meeting a talking bird friend, accidentally stepping into a fairy circle, swimming in a glowing lagoon, climbing the tallest willow tree, having picnics in ancient forest meadows, plucking a witch’s favorite flower, raising butterflies, sleeping under the stars, splashing in puddles, helping a mama duck with her ducklings cross the road, catching tadpoles
summer🌞🌿: discovering a mermaid’s cove, going on a pirate’s treasure hunt, dancing in the woods on midsummer’s eve, meeting an ancient talking tree, finding a dragon’s lair, taking a bite of a magical fruit, shrinking from a magic spell & making animal friends, swinging from vines in the trees, waiting up all night for the meteor shower to begin, napping under a shady tree, an owl swooping low overhead, fresh fruits, light linens, scraped knees
autumn🍂🐿: spotting a witch flying overhead on a misty night, setting out to find a werewolf, investigating the ghosts in the attic, crunchy leaves underfoot as you travel the spooky forest, carving the biggest pumpkin of the patch, hearing eerie howling & screaming as the full moon rises, entering a decrepit old mansion with a creaking door, seeing two faces look back from the mirror on all hallow’s eve, steamy windows as the apple pie bakes on a rainy day
winter❄️🌙: skating across a frozen pond, the sound of your loved ones laughing around a table, the way snow crunches under your feet as you explore a white forest, a family member gifting you a spell-bound family amulet, mysterious sounds coming from the dark woods, discovering a strange tome in the attic, trekking for hours to get the best view of the aurora, the silence of a snowy morning, snowball fights, hand-knit mittens, strange howling in the night (must be the wind)
Sense and Sensibility 1995 + The Onion Headlines, Part 1/2
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“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”— Paulo Coelho (via quotemadness)
