Brón Trogain also means “birth pains of the earth.” It may seem paradoxical to speak of birth in a season when things are dying back, but late summer is the season when plants are focused on bringing forth fruit and seed. Most modern Pagans think of Bealtaine as the season of fertility, but more properly speaking, it is attraction and pleasure and flowering and pollination that we experience in spring – it is autumn that the forest and field are fecund.  Fecundity and fertility are the maturation of the friskiness of spring. Lughnassadh is the time of fruition but also the time the first seeds are nestled in the soil.

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