Your Talents Are Ripe for Harvesting

(And Lugh Wants You to Notice)

You know that moment when you walk past a garden in late July and the tomatoes have gone from “maybe someday” to “oh my gods, eat me now”? It’s definitely happening in my garden.

That’s not just a tomato thing. That’s a you thing too.
Even if I’ve never met you, I can assure you that you have important gifts to share with the world. Probably the things you feel least confident about.

You know… those secret journals you’ve never shared with anyone. Your passion for singing, even though you think you can’t carry a tune (so you save it for the shower). The time it just felt right to drop everything and take a walk and you actually did it, even though there was work to do.

Those are little gems hiding in your psyche, waiting to find a way to shine in the world.

• I’m not saying you have to publish your journals. Heaven forbid! But maybe it’s time to start writing a book or a couple of blog posts, since writing comes naturally.
• Maybe your silly doodles are a doorway to painting—or guiding others in neurographic art for stress relief and manifesting their dreams.
• Do you find people often laughing around you? No need to change anything. Just own your talent for making people feel at ease.

This is Lugh’s season, and Lugh is never one for modesty.

I suppose he must be a Leo.

He was the multiple-arts god—master of poetry, smith-craft, healing, music, strategy, and pretty much every skill his fellow gods could name, which is how he talked his way into Tara’s royal court (as the story goes, he showed up, listed his talents one by one, and the gatekeeper kept saying “we already have someone for that” until Lugh asked if they had anyone who did all of it at once—nobody did, and in he walked).

So stand at the threshold of life and claim your gifts as Lugh did at Tara.

It’s the only way to enter the feast. The effortless flow. The joyful expansion you came here to experience. No holding back!

In case you’re not familiar with him yet, Lugh is the Irish god of mastery, sunlight, and the confidence that comes from being genuinely good at something—unapologetically.

His feast is Lughnasadh and it’s almost here, which means the wheel of the year has rolled around to the first harvest. It’s the moment when what we planted in spring finally ripens, ready to be gathered.

I’ve picked a few zucchinis and lots of tomatoes from my garden. The basil is abundant too, which is a must for our extended-family pesto dinners. Our local Gravenstein apples are showing up in the markets. And somewhere inside you, something has been ripening too—a skill, an idea, a piece of your own magic—and it’s more ready for the world than you may think. It’s what you came here to explore and express.

That’s the energy of this holiday. It’s not just “the crops are in,” but “look at the gifts you have to share.”

The Harvest Isn’t Just in the Fields

I’ve noticed, in thirty years of coaching, that inner gifts are easily overlooked. Other people often see them before we do. Our dogs definitely see them.

Often they are things we are afraid to share, or things that seem like second-nature to us. Yet other people may marvel at them.

My mother was a master at making pies. I have a friend who can engage just about anyone in a lively conversation, a talent she assumes is available to anyone. It’s not!

Another friend can keep people fascinated with his stories for hours, but it’s so effortless he doesn’t notice what a unique talent that is.

Like gold, those gifts are precious. Nobody hands you mastery. It’s cut, threshed, and separated from the chaff over months (sometimes years) of living, and Lughnasadh is the moment you’re invited to stand in the field and say look what I grew.

And there’s also a darker thread running through this holiday: nothing ripens without something being given up first. The old stalk dries up so the grain can be gathered. The seed had to disappear underground before it could sprout.

Whatever you lost, gave up, or released this year—that sacrifice fed this harvest. It counts.

Gold, Sun, and Crystals That Match the Season

Late summer light has a unique color to it. A golden glow that makes everything look like it popped out of a Maxfield Parrish painting, especially late in the day. If you want to work with that glow on your altar or in meditation, try using something made of gold, or choose a crystal or gemstone with a golden hue, like Citrine, golden topaz, or golden calcite.

Build a small harvest altar if you like to celebrate that way—bread, grain, late-summer fruits (just make sure the mice can’t get to it), a gold candle, and maybe one of these stones sitting in the center like it’s holding court.

It doesn’t need to be elaborate.
Lugh was a master of many arts—not many props.

A Practice for Lughnasadh

If you want to celebrate Lughnasadh on your own, try this: open a journal and list your gifts. Not your job title, or your résumé. Actual skills, insights, and inner resources you’ve noticed or developed over your lifetime, even the small or unglamorous ones that don’t seem important.

If they express who you are, they are the most important gifts in the world.

Have you learned to say no without over-explaining? That’s a harvest.
Finally trusting your intuition in a decision, no matter how small? Also a harvest.

Write them down.

Then ask the question every good harvest requires: what’s actually ripe and ready to be shared, and what still needs another season in the field?

Not everything is ready to share with the world at once. That’s not failure—it’s just how ripening works.

You’re Invited to Gather Your Harvest With Me

If you’d rather explore all of this with Lugh and the crystal devas as guides, and human company instead of a solo journal session, I’d love to have you join us at Crystal Clarity & the Golden Harvest of Your Soul Gifts.

It’s my Lughnasadh workshop on Zoom this Saturday, August 1st.

We’ll gather crystal clear insights from the crystal devas, take guided shamanic journeys to mine our inner gold, and harvest any gifts you’re ready to claim and share. We’ll call on the light of Lugh to illuminate what’s ripe in your life right now, and anchor it all in the hidden caverns of your heart.

Come gather your golden harvest with us.

Save your spot here → https://www.celticmysteryschool.com/crystal-clarity-your-golden-harvest/