This year we combined Lammas and Mabon themes to express our thankfulness for the gifts of our harvest.  The central question of the day was: What have you "harvested" this year that you are most thankful for--that you welcome most deeply into your heart?   

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To help us find the answer to this question we journeyed in a profound, guided meditation to meet the Mother of the Harvest; we then decorated beautiful  folding paper "gift shrines” to hold our symbols and blessings of our harvested energies and to express our Thankfulness;  and we broke into small groups to share our shrines and harvest stories. To conclude our day we empowered these "shrines" with a ceremony of blessings of elemental energies by adding symbolic pinches of  lavender (air), cinnamon (fire), shells (water) and sunflower seeds (earth) into the pockets in our shrines!  

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All these activities were augmented by the Harvest Lore shared by Freya, the meditation written by Vee, the folding templates designed by Mandella, chants by Pannthera, and a beautiful handout booklet designed by Lea!