Wheel of the Year: Reiki & Reflection at Lammas (Lughnasadh)
Honouring the first harvest with energy & stillness… as the wheel turns once more, we arrive at Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh, the first of the harvest festivals.
Mary-Ann Robinson
8/1/20252 min read
Traditionally celebrated around 1st August, this sacred time marks the beginning of the grain harvest, a moment to pause and give thanks for the fruits of our labour, both physical and spiritual. Lammas invites us to reflect on what we’ve sown and what we’re now beginning to reap. In nature, golden fields ripple in late-summer light, symbolising abundance, gratitude, and transformation. It is a time to honour the cycles of growth, release, and renewal. And it offers the perfect threshold to deepen our self-care through Reiki Therapy and meditation.
The Energy of Lammas
This Sabbat carries the element of fire—not the bright, blazing heat of midsummer, but the slow-burning, amber glow of ripening purpose. It’s a time when solar energy gently wanes, encouraging us to ground, centre, and listen inwardly.
Lammas is a bridge between the outward expression of summer and the inward call of autumn. Through energy healing and stillness, we can align ourselves with the season’s lessons: gratitude, letting go, and presence.
Reiki for Harvest Season
Reiki at Lammas helps to clear energy blockages around self-worth, productivity, and fear of change. Just as the earth naturally sheds what is no longer needed, so too can we. Here are some ways to work with Reiki energy during this sacred time:
Set intentions of gratitude before a self-Reiki session. Place your hands over your heart and solar plexus, feeling into the warmth of appreciation for your efforts, your growth, your being.
Use Reiki symbols (if attuned) to send energy to projects or dreams that are coming to fruition, as well as those requiring closure.
Invite Reiki to help you release what no longer serves - patterns, attachments, or unrealistic expectations - by gently scanning your aura and sending healing to those areas of tension or heaviness.
Lammas Meditation Ritual
This simple meditation honours the turning of the wheel and reconnects you with your own inner harvest.
Lammas Gratitude Grounding Practice (10–15 mins)
Sit or lie down comfortably. Breathe deeply, feeling the rise and fall of your belly.
Visualise yourself in a golden field of wheat beneath a soft amber sky.
With each inhale, breathe in the energy of abundance… with each exhale, release any tension or worry.
Begin silently repeating: “I am grateful for the seeds I have sown. I welcome the blessings I now receive.”
Place your hands on your heart and gently send Reiki energy there (or simply rest in stillness if unattuned).
When you are ready, offer a soft smile and give thanks: to the land, to your spirit, to the season.
A Sacred Reminder
Lammas teaches us that life unfolds in cycles, and every step - planting, tending, harvesting, and resting - has its own sacred rhythm. In honouring this seasonal shift with Reiki Therapy and meditation, we deepen our connection not just to nature, but to the quiet wisdom within.
Let this first harvest be a moment of pause… A breath…. A bow to your own becoming.
Sending harmony & light, Mary-Ann x
