I just wanted to give everyone a peek at my Lughnasadh altar setup and talk a little about a few of the items on it (including some new items that will be listed in the shop soon). It was important to me to choose flowers and bread intentionally based on what can be harvested in my area during this time of year.

If you are looking for more info about Lughnasadh check out this blog post.

I'd like to preface this by saying that I don't really use altar cloths much. We live in a house that is over 100 years old and it just gets dusty to quick for me. I prefer to be able to wipe down my altar when it gets dusty instead of having to wash a cloth. I tend to opt for a small altar board under my cauldron to protect the surface of my shelf. This altar board I specifically designed for the harvest festivals and features hand drawn sheafs of wheat and small pentacles with chippy orange paint.

While I'm sure wheat is grown semi-locally it isn't easy to just go grab and have on my altar. I ended up picking up a small bundle at Micheal's to add to my sunflower arrangement. Sunflowers are blooming all around town and that's why I choose to add them to my altar. I'm using faux flowers just to keep the pollen out of my bedroom, but will get some fresh sunflowers the day of Lughnasadh to display in our dining area. By the way, that GORGEOUS pitcher I'm using as a vase came from Ikea and I adore it and the pop of green it adds to the space. I feel like the green balances the summer with the traditionally more fall colors associated with the harvest.

The beeswax spell candles on the altar were hand dipped and rolled in herbs for an abundance spell I will be doing on Lughnasadh. The herbs I chose were red clover, chamomile, and oatmeal because let's be real this is an abundance spell aimed at my wallet haha. I'm still working on perfecting the spell candles and am hoping to have them ready to list in the shop in the next couple of months. They are SO much fun to make and a really stunning addition to my altar space.

I just made these stacking altar shelves and the labels for some of my herb bottles and I am super excited with how they turned out. My altar isn't very deep, or really very big in general and I needed a way to keep some herbs out without taking up a ton of surface space so I devised this stacking shelf system. Each of the herb jars has the name of the herb and a few of the magical properties of each. Fingers crossed these will be up in the store before Yule.

On the shelves I have one of my many tarot decks, a few crystals that I felt drawn to add, my handmade corn dolly (tutorial here), jar of charcoal discs, and my handy dandy match jar.

I made a pretty tasty loaf of savory zucchini bread (recipe here) and added some fresh blueberries as offerings to the local land spirits. We'll put a small amount of each outside but we will include the bread and blueberries in our dinner.

I hope these pics inspire you to create your own beautiful Lughnasadh altar that works for you and your practice.

Blessed be the Witches.