AUGUST is a month of celebration, play and work. Summer light is waning, the fields are filled with colour and bounty. It's a time to savour the last weeks of summer bliss.

CORRESPONDENCES

Moons - New Moon 8   🌙   Full Moon 22

Zodiac - Leo & Virgo

Sabbats - Lughnasadh

Colours - Yellow, Green, Red, Orange

Elements - Fire & Earth

Symbolism - Abundance, Harvest, Celebration,  Gratitude, Sun, Labour, Make Plans, Success, Strength, Protection, Partnership, Good Fortune, Blessings, Passion, Fertility

Kitchen - Wheat, Corn, Berries, Breads, Sun Shaped, Cookies, Jellies, Beer, Cider, Honey, Nuts, Potatoes. Anything ripening at this time. 

"Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August..."

~ Denise Levertov

Lughnasadh

August 1st is the Celtic feast called Lughnasadh, it is one of three harvest festivals celebrated in the pagan wheel of the year. It is a festival where one would celebrate the bounty of their first harvest, feast on the first fruits of their labour, and would perform rituals around protecting their crops and livestock. Handfasting (marriage ceremony) were very common during Lughnasadh. It's a celebratory time, filled with large feasts, dancing, protection and ritual. 

Ritual ideas to celebrate Lughnasadh:

• Create an altar to honour the festival, with colours of the season (reds, yellows, greens, oranges), candles and symbols of the field (wheat, fruits, vegetables, honey, bread, corn).
• Light a tea light candle, close your eyes and think of all the blessings in your life, the growth you’ve had and offer thanks. Then Visualize all the blessings to still to be harvested and offer your gratitude. Let you candle burn out (in a safe manner).
• Bake bread, this is a traditional practice. When you bake break, we use the grain around us to sustain our bodies and consume natures holy gifts.
• Cook up a feast with your family and friends.
• Have a fire and write down all your regrets (from the past season) on paper/corn husks or project your regrets into pine cones and toss them into the fire to release them.
• Wonderful time to make your preserves.
• Honour the Grain Goddess and Create a corn doll. She is your representation of harvest. I created a how to video for you below!

Corn Husk Doll

A corn husk doll is a Native American doll made out of the dried leaves or "husk" of a corn cob.

• Corn dollies are magical charms thought to protect the home, livestock, and personal wellness of the maker and their family.
• They may be a home for the spirit of the crop. The tradition pertains to the idea that the crop of grain has a spirit that loses its home after the final harvest and it is therefore to be invited and housed in the home over the winter before being returned to the earth in spring for the next crop.

Enjoy making these blessed dolls! 

Music Moves The Soul

Dance is a wonderful way to express oneself and release heavy energies. Dance is a powerful way to uplift your soul and reignite your passion for life. There are so many benefits to dancing. It helps you feel young and free. It’s a way of expressing self. Dancing is a powerful tool for healing and creating new and healthy energy flow. It’s a powerful way to connect us deeply to ourselves. Dance is one of those life-changing rituals one can do for self. So, turn up this tune and dance to celebrate your life!

Dance to heal! Dance to enrich your soul!

Magickal Offerings

Soul Coaching® Certification

April 29 - May 5, 2022

Join Gillian White & Alishia Alibhai (both Certified Soul Coaching® Practitioners and Soul Coaching® Practitioner Trainers) for this upcoming course!

We are honoured and excited to weave our backgrounds together and share our wisdom that comes from our combined 20+ years of practice as Soul Coaching® Practitioners! We invite you to join us in a sacred setting in beautiful Banff for a journey filled with transformation, growth, and magick! We look forward to gathering with you and are honoured to welcome you to the world of Soul Coaching®!

As an additional bonus with this training, you will also be certified as an Inspired Life Guide, which will give you full rights and access to our 21 Days to a Soul Inspired Life program (created by us) - another beautiful tool ready for you to use with your clients and groups. This certification is valued at $1200 and we are including it as a bonus with this Soul Coaching Certification training in Banff! (Full details in link below) 

Wyld Women Tour

Northwest Ireland!

August 2nd - 9th, 2022

Only 5 spots left!

This tour is different from other spiritual tours… it's an experience that combines the sisterhood of bonding with a group of likeminded women, visiting and immersing yourself in mystical places of power, myth, and legend, as well as a fun-filled vacation in another country.  You can partake in the playful dance of energy experienced in the fairy places we will visit, spectacular breathtaking landscapes, heartfelt ceremonies to honour the land and each other, as well as some good Irish craic (fun!)  We will have a free-flowing magickal experience of this land to enable you to connect with the power of your inner witch, including both individual and group ceremony.  So, if you are a woman who wants a retreat-style experience that combines a spiritual journey and light-hearted fun in Ireland, this is your trip.

Wyld Sister Monthly Gatherings

August Dates Posted!

Come gather in a circle and feel the wonders of Sisterhood. These circles are a sacred space where you find your powerful voice, release limiting beliefs, feel connected, healed, heard and inspired. By gathering in ritual, we reconnect to the rhythms of nature, both around us and within us. This gives us the strength to be our full magickal, authentic selves.

Here are some of the teachings I have been weaving together. Please be sure you subscribe, so you don’t miss out when I announce them!

Magickal Teachings to watch for:

❊ Elements of a Witch (Available again shortly)

❊ Moon Magick (Fall 2021)

❊ Protection Magick (Fall 2021)

❊ Intro to Bone Throwing (October 2021)

❊ Hearth Magick

❊ Inspired Life Guide Certification with Alishia & Gillian – (June 2022)