Teine Grian Deas
Southern Lugnasa basks under the high summer sun, and the acorns on oaks ripen. The coined term Teine Grian Deas, the Southern Sun Fire, recognises that more than just the seasons are marked by the Celtic Fire Feasts – the constellations are just as part of each festival, and wherever we are in the world, it is an Imbolg story being told in the stars for Celts. Still, it is impossible not to celebrate the high summer when that is the season you are in! The oaks at Tranby House on the banks of the Swan River in Perth are bursting with acorns, and soon they will be falling as the autumn comes around; this brings to mind the episode in the Mabinogi of Math ap Mathonwy where Hen Wen goes to eat ‘Lleu’s rotting flesh’, that is the acorns, highly favoured by our porcine friends, and Gwydion sings his englyns to retrieve the wounded Lleu.