Transfiguration
19 August 2026 — The first grapes are ready – autumn is already knocking at the door!
The Transfiguration of the Lord is one of the twelve great feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy. It recalls the Gospel story in which Jesus was transfigured before his disciples on a mountain, his face shining like the sun and his clothes becoming white as light. The feast is kept on 6 August; churches that follow the Julian calendar, including the Serbian Orthodox Church, celebrate it on 6 August by that calendar, which corresponds to 19 August in the Gregorian calendar. In Serbia it is known as Preobraženje. In folk tradition it is tied to the first ripe grapes: the first ripe grapes are brought to church to be blessed, and until then they are traditionally left untouched. In some places people say that from this day the weather turns toward autumn, as nights grow longer and cooler and summer steps back. The feast thus joins church tradition with the rhythm of the farming year. The night sky changes too: evenings grow darker, and the summer constellations slowly give way to those of autumn.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of bright dots and fine lines, like a constellation moving across the sky: a little vine-grower child carrying a basket of grape clusters drawn as glowing star points
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