And sometimes things don’t shift. Sometimes we’re stuck in a rut for a long long while and nothing seems to change no matter how many full moons pass us by. I’ll be honest—with everything I’ve been dealing with this year, I am in a sort of self-imposed, restorative rut. I’m in day-by-day mode.

Celebrate Lughnasadh, a pagan summer harvest festival, with an earth-centered ritual. Enjoy the abundance of late summer and honor the ancestors.

Lughnasadh (pronounced “LOO-nuh-suh”) is an ancient harvest festival usually held around August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere. It marks the beginning of the harvest season, the shift from summer towards fall, and commemorates the move from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural one in Celtic mythology.

At the cross-quarter date between the summer solstice and fall equinox, many modern pagans celebrate Lughnasadh. Learn more about this ancient Celtic harvest festival, and explore how to celebrate it yourself.

With Beltane, we invite the energies of life, joy, playfulness, beauty, and hope into our lives. We remember pleasure and presence and offer our gratitude for having survived the winter season and made it to the rebirth of spring. We celebrate the energies of the Maiden aspect of the goddess, which is about life, fertility, and potential. Here is a simple ritual that you can practice to celebrate Beltane this year.

As we greet the midway point between spring and summer, celebrating the ancient Celtic festival of Beltane is a joyous way to invite pleasure and connection into our lives.

Beltane, also known as May Day, falls on the first of May. It is a cross-quarter festival that marks the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. In Celtic traditions, it also means the beginning of the abundant, bright, beautiful summer season.

Enjoy this gentle meditation to honor Ostara, a spring equinox celebration, and to welcome greater fertility and abundance into your life.

In this brief meditation, we acknowledge Ostara, the traditional celebration of the spring equinox, as a moment when the light and dark are equal and when we transition from the dark half of the year to the bright half. We focus on inviting the energy of fertility (literal or metaphorical), hope, and light while shedding any dark winter energy we are ready to let go of.

Imbolc is a holiday of hope, a celebration of the goddess Brigid, and the perfect time to honor your inner fire.

The word imbolc roughly translates to “in the belly,” and refers to the time of the year when the sheep had their babies and produced life-giving milk after a long, cold season when the harvest stores were likely thinning.