This year's cross quarter
gateway of fire, Lammas, takes place on a full moon, in the middle of the only
event to harness at least half the entire world's attention: the Olympic Games.
And in this momentous year, says Patricia Cota-Robles, the Olympic opportunity is truly what its name
implies:
"A plan has been set
into motion that will take advantage of the powerful celestial alignments and
solar flares that are flooding the Earth during this awesome summer of 2012.
This plan requires that people around the world create a collective Cup of
Consciousness through which the Light of God will flow to transmute the
surfacing negativity and pave the way for the birthing of a New Renaissance of
Divine Love.
"The only positive event that has the potential of drawing the
global focus of humanity's attention in the numbers necessary to transmute the
amount of negativity being pushed to the surface all over the world is the
Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are truly a global event, and they draw the
attention of an estimated 4,500,000,000 people during the 17-days of
competition. The Olympic Games signify the Family of Humanity setting aside our
differences so we can come together to attain our highest level of excellence.
This is the perfect thoughtform and intention needed for the collective Cup of
Humanity's Consciousness. Together we will magnetize enough Light to transmute
our human miscreations.
"The more Light we can project into this surfacing
negativity the faster it will be transmuted and the sooner the patterns of
perfection for our New Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love will tangibly manifest in
our lives. The Olympic Games are providing an opportunity to catapult this
process forward at warp speed.
"Pay attention to the positive things that are being brought to
your awareness and you will confirm this for yourself. Do not focus on the
bombardment of negativity that is designed to polarize people and to perpetuate
fear and separation. Focus instead on the evidence of positive changes that are
happening everywhere. Remember, where your attention is, there YOU are. Empower
only what you want to create in your life, not the things that you do not
want."
What Is Lammas?
August 1-2 marks the mid-point between summer and fall. Known as
Lammas, or Lughnasadh (LOO-ne-sah), it's one of the eight cross quarter days on
the Wheel of the Year (the others are the Summer and Winter Solstices, Spring
and Fall Equinoxes, Candlemas (Feb. 2), Beltane (May 1) and Hallomas/Samhain
(October 31). (Of course, the dates are reverse for our southern hemisphere
allies.) Lammas is a celebration of abundance, the harvest time, and a potent
moment to bring ourselves back into alignment with the natural world.
Myth*ing Links,
an annotated and illustrated collection of worldwide links to mythologies and
folklore, sacred arts and sacred traditions, offer an evocative description of
this turning:
"Lammas...is a hot, lazy, delicious time of the year. Bees buzz in
the heat of the day, the air is still, and the force of the sun remains strong,
even though its sway over the earth is slowly diminishing day by day. In the
cooler nighttime, frogs and crickets keep us company. It is here, in the
gloaming, when so many rituals begin...
"This is when the powerful gods of the grain harvests are honored.
They are in their prime, sometimes generous, sometimes quixotic, and always
aware with a bittersweet pleasure that their time will wane, as it always does,
and they will die, as they always do, and yet nevertheless they will return to
another delicious summer next year, as they always do, and have, and will, for
this is the endlessly circling Wheel of the Year, and they ride it proudly.
"Yet there is a darker nuance, one that surprised me, for I had
thought that this was a purely masculine god's festival. I learned however of
Lugh's touching and loving devotion to his foster-mother, the royal Tailtiu,
whose fate may be even more intimately woven into this season than his..."
Parabola magazine author
Mara Freeman on the further genesis of Lammas:
"...Lugh dedicated this festival to his foster-mother, Tailtiu,
the last queen of the Fir Bolg, who died from exhaustion after clearing a great
forest so that the land could be cultivated. When the men of Ireland gathered
at her deathbed, she told them to hold funeral games in her honor. As long as
they were held, she prophesied Ireland would not be without song. Tailtiu’s
name is from Old Celtic Talantiu, 'The Great One of the Earth,' suggesting she
may originally have been a personification of the land itself, like so many
Irish goddesses. In fact, Lughnasadh has an older name, Brón Trogain, which
refers to the painful labor of childbirth. For at this time of year, the earth
gives birth to her first fruits so that her children might live..."
As Cota-Robles explains, our collective negativity and fear are what
needs to "die" so that we may be reborn into 5th
dimensional abundance and grace.
Canadian tarot reader and astrologer Tara Greene says that Lugh's
festival points Southwest, and resonates to the element Air. "Southwest
represents the Place of Healing, of the Dreamer and the Dream. It is the place
of both your Personal Dream and the Sacred Dream of the Planet. What is your
Personal Dream? What is your Sacred Dream? The Sacred Dream is your Highest
Spiritual Dream."
This August, especially if you've never honored Lammas before, remember
your relationship with the Earth and her cycles. Give thanks for the beauty,
harmony, love and healing you are inviting into your life and into the
collective. Image-in your sweet Sacred Dream.
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