Light has begun to decline again. The sky
is orange and gold. An altar with purple altar cloth stands at the centre. Upon it a
single loaf of bread and cup of wine stand. Around the altar a group of twelve people are
standing in a circle.
In the Pagan story lughnasadh celebrates the death of the Sun King for life. The God is
symbolically eaten as bread. The sacred writings tell us that the sun of righteousness
declared to his followers that his death was a sacrifice to bring about new life. He
encouraged them to often share a meal together in which they ate bread to symbolise the
death of his body on the tree, and to drink wine to symbolise the spilling of his blood.
This meal was to help them remember the sacrifice.
In the foreground some seeds are sprouting. Berries are also growing around the altar.
These can serve to remind us of this new life and that it is intended to apply not only
to us but to the whole earth. They also tell us that a harvest is coming.