Litha

Other Names: Summer Solstice, Midsummer

Date: June 21 (there about)

Celebration of: The Goddess is pregnant with the God

Related Holiday: Feast of John the Baptist

Colors: White and Pale Yellow

Symbols: Spear (God) and Cauldron (Goddess). Summer flowers, St. John's Wort, birch, white Lilly's

Notes: Longest day of the year. The God is at his peak strength. Midpoint of the year. Light large bonfires after sundown. Peak of magickal power. Remember that nothing lasts forever. Celebrate abundance, fertility, virility, beauty, and the bounty of our earth. Good time for handfasting, workings for empowerment and consummation.

 

LITHA, (say Lee-Thuh) the Summer Solstice, represents the time of fulfillment. The God and Goddess ar wrapped in the ecstasy of their union. Midsummer is one of the significant turning points in the year. The sun is in the highest point in the heavens. However, there is also a change. Once the God has reached his zenith the dark begins to grow; the God begins to become introspective and to accept that his path leads to sacrifice and death. The Goddess must prepare herself for Cronehood. Nothing is certain but change and change is the basis of life. This is a time of celebration of the earth in full glory but it is also a time for the realization that change is inevitable and an anticipation of the harvest to come. Significant symbols are the making of Sun Wheel on a Solar Disk, bonfires as represented by candles, flower wreaths.