Celebrating Lammas | Family Traditions, Seasonal Tarot Spread, Lughnasadh Bread Wheel

🌾 Celebrate Lughnasadh / Lammas: First Harvest Rituals, Reflections, FamilyTraditions & a Magical Bread Recipe 🍞✨

Welcome to Birdberry Sparks! In this video, we celebrate Lughnasadh (or Lammas) - the first harvest festival in the Wheel of the Year. It’s a time of slowing down, giving thanks, and savoring the abundance that’s beginning to ripen all around us.

We‘ll explore:
🍞 The meaning of Lammas
🌿 A Lammas bread recipe for the occasion
🃏 Ideas for celebrating and gathering
🌾 Seasonal journal prompts & tarot reflection
❤️ And some cozy thoughts to take with you into the golden days ahead

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📝 Lughnasadh Journal Prompts & Tarot Spread:
Reflect on your personal harvest with these prompts:
1. What in your life has come to fruition?

2. What is still growing?

3. What may be hindering your growth?

4. What will help you move forward?

Want to make it a tarot ritual? Just draw a card for each question and create a beautiful Lammas tarot spread.

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🍞 Herb & Onion Bread Ring – Lammas Recipe

This harvest bread is shaped like a wheel to honor the turning of the seasons. It’s rich with herbs and sweet onions – perfect for celebrating the grain harvest and the soon to come 'Kräuterweihe' (German tradition of Herb Consecration).

Ingredients (for 1 ring):
• 3½ tbsp (50 g) butter
• 1 cup (¼ liter) lukewarm water
• 0.9 oz (25 g) fresh yeast (or about 2¼ tsp active dry yeast)
• 2½ cups rye flour (300 g)
• 2½ cups all-purpose or bread flour (300 g)
• ¾ tsp salt
• 1 (or more!) tbsp chopped herbs (marjoram, sage, tarragon, basil, fresh parsley)
• Some chopped onion
• Oil to lightly grease your baking sheet

Instructions:
1. Melt butter in the lukewarm water.
2. Stir in the yeast until dissolved.
3. Sift rye flour and half of the white flour into a bowl. Add salt.
4. Mix in the yeast liquid and knead into a smooth dough.
5. Cover and let rise for more or less 60 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
7. Knead in the rest of the flour and the herbs & onion.
8. Shape into a loaf, poke a hole in the middle with the end of a wooden spoon, and widen into a ring.
9. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise for another 20 - 30 minutes.
10. Brush with water and dust with flour.
11. Add 1 cup of water to the bottom of the oven at the start, to create some steam.
12. Bake 20–30 minutes.

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🤗 Let me know:
Do you have any Lughnasadh - or general family - traditions, recipes, or rituals of your own? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:11 A Little Background
02:08 A Wheel Of Bread
03:58 Celebration & Togetherness
04:59 First Harvest Reflection & Tarot Spread
06:36 Closing Thoughts
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🎵MUSIC
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