When is Lammas?<\/p>\n
Predictably, Lammas\/Lughnasadh postings popped up on Pagan e-lists and blogs on the 1st of August. But that is just what the calendar says. Astronomically, according to the online astronomical calculator<\/a>, it comes at 1541 hours GMT on August 7.<\/p>\n But I think it’s when the hummingbirds start to leave, and the mewing cries of the juvenile black-headed grosbeaks diminish in the oak brush around the house. Or when the Cordilleran flycatcher fledglings<\/a> from the nest on our front porch are suddenly gone one morning, after standing outside the nest the previous day checking out their new feathers.<\/p>\n That day–let’s call it “bird Lammas”–was July 30th.<\/p>\n Today brought cooler weather and a splatter of rain before noon: “weather Lammas.” I remember a friend who lived in Florence, Colorado, telling how the high temperatures seemed to drop a little on the first of August, and she was right, for eastern Fremont County.<\/p>\n If you are timing a ritual, then I suppose you want to watch the astronomical times. But otherwise the corners of the year are more like mini-seasons than single days or nights.<\/p>\n Tags: Lammas<\/a>, Paganism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When is Lammas? Predictably, Lammas\/Lughnasadh postings popped up on Pagan e-lists and blogs on the 1st of August. But that is just what the calendar says. Astronomically, according to the online astronomical calculator, it comes at 1541 hours GMT on August 7. 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