Wild Wellness with Jess

After the Summer Solstice, we officially entered the Dark Half of the Year, though it probably didn’t feel like it. Subtly we started waning in hours of sunlight each day, and as we approach the Autumn Equinox, it’ll grow more and more noticeable.

Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh, is a festival often celebrated on August 1st, marking the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox, as well as the first harvest of the wheel of the year.

Lughnasadh is the old Irish name for the festival - and the old spelling too. Fun fact: Lúnasa is actually the Irish word for August! Lammas is the more English Anglo-Saxon name.

It’s not too late to celebrate! Lammas is not just one day, but a portal, a Season. Time is hyperlocal, and traditions vary.

While some celebrate on August 1, some celebrated much earlier on “Lunar Lammas” with the 8th Full Moon after the Winter Solstice, which fell on July 29. “Solar Lammas” is on August 6 this week!

Lammas invites us all to reflect on the first harvest—both in Nature and in our lives. It asks: What has come to fruition? What still needs tending? And what might be time to let go of?

Press play on ep 333 of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast to hear more about...

- Honoring grief this time of year even as we hold joy, the tension between opposites and the magic that can result

- Reflecting back to Imbolc on Feb 1, seeing what has bloomed and what hasn’t

- Reasons why we sometimes don’t get the harvest we expected, and what to do with that

- Slowing to the pace of Nature as much of the animal kingdom is really quiet this time of year in the oppressive heat, and how this can be our permission slip too

🎧 Listen to ep 333 of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast on Apple, Spotify, or at http://anchor.fm/wildwellnesswithjess 🔗 in bio

Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh, is a festival celebrated on August 1st, marking the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, and the first harvest of the year in the Wheel of the Year.

It’s a time where Nature is modeling for us the themes of…

🙏 gratitude and abundance

🌾 harvest and reaping

🌀 transformation and sacrifice

👭 community and sharing

📝 and reflection and planning

❓Did you know👇

The word Lammas actually comes from the Old English “loaf mass.” 🍞

People baked a loaf of bread from their first harvest and brought it to the church ⛪️ to be blessed.

🔮 This bread was believed to have healing and protective properties, so they placed it in the corners of their homes and barns for protection and blessing.

Even though the exact traditional date of Lammas is August 1,

🌕 Lunar Lammas (the 8th full moon after Winter Solstice) is July 29 and

☀️ Solar Lammas, the exact midpoint between the Solstice and Equinox is August 7,

so we can really celebrate this whole Season.

In this week’s episode of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast, you’ll learn...

🌾 the origins, history, and symbolism of Lammas

🌾 what Nature is modeling for us physically, spiritually, and energetically, and how we can align

🌾 11 easy and enjoyable ways to celebrate Lammas

🌾 8 journal prompt themes to help you reflect and process the inspiration of this season

🎧 Listen to ep 332 of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast on Apple, Spotify, or at http://anchor.fm/wildwellnesswithjess 🔗 in bio

Where do we go for Wisdom?

Not information or strategies. Not another podcast, course, or expert.

Wisdom.

And I do capitalize it and personify it, because I’m in good company—not only with my Celtic roots, but my old growing-up-in-church roots too. In the Bible’s Book of Proverbs, Wisdom is a She, Sophia, existing along with God and Christ even before Creation.

One of the things I learned while researching this month’s Celtic Lunar Tree theme—the Oak Moon—is that the Celtic Druids were closely associated with Oak. In fact, the word Druid means “Oak Wisdom” or “Oak Knowing.”

In ancient Celtic society, the Druids were the high-ranking learned class who served as priests, judges, and teachers. They were relied upon sources of Wisdom, and it wasn’t something the Druids simply studied. It was something they cultivated in relationship with Nature.

Whether you need Wisdom in your health, work, or relationships, it’s easy to believe the next answer is always outside of us: another strategy, framework, proven system, or productivity hack.

And don’t get me wrong—I love learning. I’m a 1/3 profile in Human Design and listen to multiple podcasts a day on double speed. Give me all the research.

But lately I’ve been wondering...

What if some of the deepest Wisdom we’re looking for can’t be consumed?

What if it has to be cultivated?

What if it grows slowly through giving Attention?

Through lived experience, making mistakes, relationships, listening, and spending enough Time with one question that it begins changing us.

The Oak doesn’t rush. It grows roots before branches.

It reminds us that becoming deeply rooted is never wasted Time.

People don’t need us to have all the answers. They need us to become trustworthy enough that they can rest beneath the shade we’ve spent years growing.

That’s the conversation I’ve been sitting with this month, and it’s woven throughout my free Celtic Oak Moon guide.

🌳 Download it here: https://mailchi.mp/19ac7ef753c5/celticfullmoon

You can also click it through the link in my bio 🔗

Most of us live inside linear, scheduled time. Our culture measures every minute and asks us to manage time as if it were money. But our ancestors lived by different rhythms. They knew time as cyclical, sacred, and alive.

Unlike astrology, which can feel overwhelming with so many moving parts, the Mayan calendar offers a simple yet profound way to attune to the quality of time every single day.

The Mayan Sacred Calendar repeats in predictable cycles through twenty nawales, or archetypal energies. 

These patterns invite us to notice synchronicities, shift our awareness, and experience life through Kairos time, mythic time that stretches and breathes, rather than only Kronos time, the linear time of calendars and clocks.

In this replay of a gathering of the Wild Wellness Women’s Circle, guest expert Diana Paez walks us through:

🌀 The Mayan calendar as a living system: how cyclical time repeats in archetypal patterns

🌀 An introduction to the nawales: the 20 archetypes you will meet again and again as companions on your path

🌀 Your Mayan birth chart: how to begin exploring your unique essence through the quality of time you were born into

🌀 A rewilding of your relationship to time: moving from productivity-driven Kronos time into the spacious, sacred experience of Kairos time

Connect with Diana Diana Paez

- Follow the daily Mayan Calendar Readings with her Substack and/or Instagram
- Learn your Birth Essence (Mayan Nawal) with her free calculator
- Workshops, Study Groups, Consultations, Podcast, and more on her website

How to walk with me Jess Reid 🌏 Wild Guide & Women’s Circles

🗣️ DM me let’s get to know each other better with voice noting!

🆓 Get on my email list by signing up for any of the free resources linked in my bio. This’ll be the best place to get invites to upcoming women’s circles!

🎧 Listen to ep 331 of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast on Apple, Spotify, or click http://anchor.fm/wildwellnesswithjess 🔗 in bio

Most of us live inside linear, scheduled time. Our culture measures every minute and asks us to manage time as if it were money. But our ancestors lived by different rhythms. They knew time as cyclical, sacred, and alive.

Unlike astrology, which can feel overwhelming with so many moving parts, the Mayan calendar offers a simple yet profound way to attune to the quality of time every single day.

The Mayan Sacred Calendar repeats in predictable cycles through twenty nawales, or archetypal energies. 

These patterns invite us to notice synchronicities, shift our awareness, and experience life through Kairos time, mythic time that stretches and breathes, rather than only Kronos time, the linear time of calendars and clocks.

In this replay of a gathering of the Wild Wellness Women’s Circle, guest expert Diana Paez walks us through:

🌀 The Mayan calendar as a living system: how cyclical time repeats in archetypal patterns

🌀 An introduction to the nawales: the 20 archetypes you will meet again and again as companions on your path

🌀 Your Mayan birth chart: how to begin exploring your unique essence through the quality of time you were born into

🌀 A rewilding of your relationship to time: moving from productivity-driven Kronos time into the spacious, sacred experience of Kairos time

Connect with Diana

- Follow the daily Mayan Calendar Readings with her Substack and/or Instagram
- Learn your Birth Essence (Mayan Nawal) with her free calculator
- Workshops, Study Groups, Consultations, Podcast, and more on her website

How to walk with me

🗣️ DM me let’s get to know each other better with voice noting!

🆓 Get on my email list by signing up for any of the free resources linked in my bio. This’ll be the best place to get invites to upcoming women’s circles!

🎧 Listen to ep 331 of the Wild Wellness with Jess podcast on Apple, Spotify, or click http://anchor.fm/wildwellnesswithjess 🔗 in bio