Lammas Tide – Ripening Summer

With the first days of August we are ushered into the season of Ripening, of first Harvest. The Walnuts, Blackberries, and other fruits of hedgerow and meadow are ripe now, though the fields of corn and soybeans are still green and their harvest not yet begun.The seed heads of the prairie grasses swell beneath clear and ringing skies.

On the oak trees, clusters of young acorns show themselves green and firm. The days grow imperceptibly shorter, and though the days are often still heavy with summer humidity, the nights are cooler, and they resound with the voices of Katydids and other night-chirping insects.

The wild creatures are harvesting as well, and beginning the process of laying in stores for the fallow season ahead.

Here is the gate into the Harvest season when the grain will be cut and slain for our sustenance, of which a thousand ancient Mysteries speak. I…