somberkind replied to your photoset “This tart started my cooking spree tonight lol. It was a special...”

Lol thank you!! I did mess up the custard part though but it’s still tasty (you can not make custard normally with coconut milk I learned this the hard way lol) but I will try to make way more tarts in the future anyway. 

This tart started my cooking spree tonight lol. It was a special magical tart just for this Sabbat. The crust was yummy and moist and made like an oatmeal sugar cookie flavored with almond extract and brown sugar. The filling was a custard flavored with homemade syrupy peach whiskey, honey and homemade jasmine extract. The peaches were from the union square farmers market and it’s topped with edible pearl dust and gold star sprinkles. The peaches were so delicious they were the best part of the tart but the oats together made it really yummy and earthy. (I choose oats cause of the harvest)

I was going to make some food for myself but my family is over so I decided to make a feast for everyone! It was worth it and fun to put together. I made elderflower mint iced tea which I put in the fish bottle, a yellow tomato (I find yellow tomatoes lucky for this Sabbat) salad with olives and basil served with ancient grain bread. (The loaf with the oats), zucchini and summer squash stir fry with turmeric, lemony cod fish and a strange summery melon I've never seen or heard of in my life but I love it it tastes like honeydew but with the texture of a ripe pear. For dessert I made a special tart which inspired the whole dinner but it's a honey peach oat tart. The crust is made like an oatmeal sugar cookie and it's soft and flavored with home made jasmine extract (we have a jasmine plant) and almond extract. The custard was flavored with what was left of a home made peach whiskey I had and honey and it was topped with farmers market peaches and gold star sprinkles. The custard texture cane out too soft cause I could only use coconut milk since there was no cow milk but it was still nice!! I'll probably have to keep practicing.

I'm thrilled to have gotten this fish bottle. So random but it's my favorite beverage holder. I made mint elderflower iced tea with mint from the garden for the dinner.

My lughnasadth pillar. It's anointed with cedar and ginger oil and topped with oats, dried sunflower petals and wheat seeds. The candles behind it are wonderful smelling beeswax candles

My lughnasadth breakfast. Today was very chill with a lot of cooking and crafting. I started it off with some blueberry waffles I made with ingredients from the farmers market.

the august banner image from my instagram.  I am doing so much today but also creating a lot which makes me happy!! The right is supposed to represent the celestial events. There is a meteor shower this 11th that goes into the morning of the 12th. A partial Lunar eclipse the 7th on the full moon and a total solar eclipse the 21st around the new moon. The middle of course is August and the first harvest! And the left is a grasshopper that just wants to enjoy summer and play music while the ants are too busy preparing for the tougher times ahead and reaching their goals before the end of the harvest. Some ants are getting distracted though and dancing to the music too! I love the Ants and the Grasshopper story cause it’s such a Lughnasadth/Summer Crossquarter tale. It fits with the sabbat very well.  

@suchprettypride Sorry I’m on mobile I’m going to be traveling today and I’m getting ready

So yes there is a holiday called Midsummer that’s not really the summer solstice it’s on June 25th and in some Christian cultures like specifically England it’s to honor some saint I forgot his name but there’s a lot of magic involved with the holiday especially with the fae.

But when I say Midsummer here in context it’s like saying Midautumn, midspring, midwinter which are also names I refer to the other crossquarters as. It can def get confusing in the pagan world for those pagans that observe Midsummer but I meant it as the Midsummer Sabbat since it’s the middle of summer.

I can try to edit the text around to make it a bit clear but I did attempt to type at the beginning the various names and why. I should edit it when I have the chance.

✧ . 🌾 Summer Crossquarter Solitary Rituals 🌾 *✧

The Summer Crossquarter is also referred to as Lammas and or Lughnasadth. Summer’s Pinnacle is only next week! It is the zenith of Summer (like the way the full moon is the pinnacle of the lunar cycle, this is the pinnacle of summer) where it's at it's height and it's hottest but after will begin the steady transition into fall and shorter cooler days. This is also the middle of the year where we start to enter the darker half of the remaining year and we acknowledge what we've gained so far (reaping what we sowed) yet seeing what it might take to reach our goals which lies ahead. It’s time to finish projects and enjoy the first harvest of the harvest season! Enjoy the wonderful concert of crickets, the height of summer and the wheat and corn feast. I have a personal correspondences post that might help explain why I chose certain things! (Also here is my personal tag!)

A lot of us witches practice alone and have our own solitary rituals for each sabbat that we observe (or the ones we’ve created just for ourselves that we observe alone!) Like any solitary eclectic witch I do things my own different way but some of these things might line up with others practices.

When I am alone and casting spells a lot of it is visualization/intent so my solitary rituals are more like activities I like to do then specifically casting a spell. If I am doing a spell with an activity based on it a lot would be listening to music to get in the mood and focusing on a candle while visualizing for a period of time! Eves are also important to my celebration as I like to stay up until midnight and cast a spell then!

August’s Eve

Monday July 31st 2017

Midnight Spell:

Summer Crossquarter (lughnsasadth) Day

(Wednesday June 21st 2017)

Evening

between the two summer sabbats it’s interesting how they compliment each other in the way that I practice them.  Summer solstice is more fire and air where as Midsummer is more water and earth. Summer Solstice is celebrated with fire, the sun, blue skies, fireworks, fireflies, sparks, bonfires and Midsummer is the celebration of the leafy emerald greens bearing fruit and vegetables, the fish in the water, the streams, the summer storms that quench the earth and help things to grow. Midsummer is about prosperity which is fitting that it’s colors for me are gold for the wheat and corn harvest but it’s also green for the vegetables and deep thick emeralds that surrounds me in my woodsy hometown. Also green for me is very much a color for prosperity so it’s still fitting. 

Summer Green Man plaque. Seasons of the Year, Midsummer

I'm thrilled my dad is teaching me how to care for the hive while he's away. I've always wanted a beehive and the bees are so kind and docile. He gave me a small extra piece of honeycomb and I love the pattern. It's on my summer crossquarter altar now.

In the process of cleaning my space and I cleansed my altar and have it set for the Summer Crossquarter. I wanted to record the pretty song of the crickets since it's such a summery vibe but aloud ass ice cream truck came haha but it helps the summer theme too. It smells like lemongrass, citronella, straw, lemons, ginger, sandalwood and cedar.