MADISON – August 6, 2026

Welcome back, sisters, to another WLRN music hour. This month, as promised, the focus will be on Lammas, the holy day of my female-centered earth-based spiritual tradition on The Wheel of the Year whose Old European roots stretch back into Neolithic times. Here around my home on HERground in the South Eastern mountains of the US, crepe myrtles have reached their long anticipated peak beauty, fields of sunflowers pull me into a swerve as I pass,  basil and thyme has gone to flower and the agastache has gone to seed for the goldfinches. I can’t forget to mention the  urgent caution of the season around nests of hornets and ground bees ever abundant at this time on The Wheel. And always, watching for the bears who mark the time  with their growing cubs and small clans ambling purposefully towards the wild cherry trees or dangling hornet nests to gorge.  The light of the days is lessening, though it’s subtle. Lammas is a subtle holy day, but while subtle, her energy is profoundly beautiful to dance with.  

I will read some again from Dr. Kim Duckett’s important book The Wheel of the Year as an Earth-based Spiritual Psychology for Women as well as from some other sources of inspiration of this season of Lammas to include Judy Grahn and Anya Robyak. 

I hope you enjoy both the information and the creative playlist I’ve crafted this month of music to include a variety of musicians from around the world. Since I live in the Northern Femisphere, I am experiencing the late summer energy while my sisters on the flip side are in late winter energy of a very different earthscape. Interestingly enough, both the holy day of Lammas and the holy day of Imbolc (which is directly across The Wheel, six months for us) are both times of fragility and leaning into one’s community/tribe. These two themes will run through my play list along with themes of celebration, gratitude and remembering our phenomenal spiritual fortitude as women, born under Patriarchy.

Thanks again for tuning back in! We’ll begin with music by Ayla Nereo called Wheel of Time.