Our ancestors celebrated 8 points in the year using them as a framework for their lives. The "Wheel of the Year" combines the astronomical cycle of the solstices and equinoxes, with the turning points of each season, marked by the Celts with the 4 Cross Quarter festivals, formerly known as the 4 Great Fire Festivals; Imbolc, Beltain, Lammas and Samhain. In the past huge community bonfires were lit on hilltops, uniting communities in common focus and celebration of their lives and the earth.

Lammas falls between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox and celebrates the beginning of Autumn. It is the time of the grain harvest, providing the basic food that will sustain us throughout the winter. It is important to recognise that this grain is also the seed that becomes next years harvest,the seed that lives on and completes the cycle.

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