Late Summer Breeze: Flowers and Bees for Māra's Day

Traditional calendars divide the year into 8 seasons marked by solstices, equinoxes and the cross-quarter days between them. The exact dates can vary slightly year to year and in many cultures are rationalised to specific dates. Between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox is a cross-quarter day around August 6: Māras or Māras Diena, Mara's Day or Great Mother Day (she is actually assigned 4 days through the year, as befits a GreatGoddess!) in Latvian culture; Lughnasadh in the Celtic/British tradition, Lammas is the Christianised version; Freyfest or Hlæfæst is a version of the Nordic tradition (I'm unclear on an original name for this day in the Nordic tradition, but they surely marked it.- see more on my blog post, which should be up soon after the video). The exact dates and details vary, but across Northern European cultures, this is a late summer/beginning of autumn celebration, often associated with harvest. For me, as with all of the 8 seasonal markers, it is about noticing the