Lughnasadh Celebration Range

Our Lughnasadh celebration range is designed to enhance your rituals and celebrations with limited edition and specially handcrafted products that feature a unique blend of apothecary items corresponding to Lughnasadh. Featuring a Blackberry, Calendula and Vervain base the Lughnasadh celebration range smells good enough to transport you a long feasting table, surrounded by friends and family and laden with bread and harvest foods. Blackberry - to attract prosperity and encourage fertility, know as the fruit of the Fae. Calendula - to prevent negativity and evil entering the home as well as promoting love and constancy. Vervain - to protect against harmful spells cast against you and to rekindle a waning love. Citrine - to raise energy and attract wealth and and abundance and aid manifestation. Peridot - to ward from negative energy, stimulate psychic ability and heal damaged relationships. Traditional Southern Hemisphere Date February 2nd - Traditional Northern Hemispehere Date August 1st Lughnasadh or Lammas is the time to take a moment enjoying the waning summer days before the work of the first or grain harvest begins.  We begin to recognise and reap that which we have sown throughout the Spring and Summer and acknowledge that Summer is reaching it's end.   The word Lammas is a derivation of the term loaf mass and shows the festivals close ties with the harvesting of grain and the making of breads.  Whereas the great Celtic Sun King, Lugh, lends his name to the festival of Lughnasadh which he instructed be celebrated to honor his mother with feasting and circle dancing and to acknowledge his waning strength and the approaching darkness of Winter.   It is traditional to celebrate Lughnasadh with the baking and eating of bread and loaves.  Especially those heavily laden with seeds and whole grains to honour the first harvest and acknowledge the gifts and sarifice of Lugh.  Lugh, is the embodiement of the living spirit of the grain and as the stalks are cut to harvest the grain, so Lugh is likewise cut down. He sacrifices his his life so that the those that honour him may be sustained by the grain, and that the life of their community may continue in health and prosperity through the Winter.   Hollow Hill container candles are made using sustainable and ethically sourced Australian made soy and coconut waxes from our wonderful Melbourne based supplier.  Hollow Hill bath salts and soaks are made with a base of sustainable epsom and sea salts or buttermilk and Australian clays from our Australian supplier in Perth.