Lammas
1 August 2026 — The first grain is now bread! Have a slice of luck.
Lammas is an old English harvest festival held on 1 August. The name comes from the Old English “hlafmæsse”, meaning “loaf mass”. In early medieval times, people brought a loaf baked from the first new grain to church to be blessed. The festival expresses gratitude for the fertile land and the work of the reapers, and it also marked a point in the farming year in rural communities. Today, in parts of Britain, Lammas is marked by baking bread shaped like a wheat sheaf, decorating with ears of grain and sharing meals together. Some modern pagan communities call the day Lughnasadh and link it to Celtic tradition. In the calendar, the date falls roughly halfway between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, so it is often seen as the start of the harvest season. On clear summer evenings, it is also a fine time to look for the Milky Way.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of luminous dots and fine lines, shaped like a round loaf woven into a sheaf of wheat, drifting across the sky like a moving constellation
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