tysmiha-witchnotes-info:

Litha is a celebration of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Celebrations focus mainly on the power of the sun.

Before Litha – A time for growing

• Focus on making decisions in your social and professional life that promote growth
• Re-pot plants

Arts & Crafts

• Make a besom decorated for Litha
• Make a honey or sugar scrub
• Make a pillow stuffed with lavender for peaceful sleep during the summer
• Make a suncatcher

Cleaning & Cleansing

• Do a house cleaning ritual
• Pick up litter
• Pull up the blinds and fill your home with sunlight

Cooking

• Bake a cake
• Brew your own mead
• Eat outside
• Hold a barbecue for family and friends

Decorating & Gardening

• Hang up suns in your home and garden
• Put a stone circle sundial in your garden

Spell-casting & Divination

• Charge your tools in the power of the Litha sun
• Go to the beach to perform some ocean magic or collect beachy tools to use later
• Make Ogham staves

Other Activities

• Attend a drum circle
• Celebrate the season with a big bonfire
• Do something for charity
• Get up before the sun and go to bed after it sets to experience the entire day
• Go hiking and bring a field guide to help you identify the wildlife
• Learn a new skill
• Meditate in nature
• Spend as much time as possible outdoors
• Watch the sunrise and sunset
• Wear a flower crown
• Wear warm colors

After Litha – A time for thriving

• Be active 
• Focus on goals and networking
• Get away into nature
• Go to the beach
• Go hiking
• Go swimming

aphrodites-witch:

– lots and lots of flowers that grow native in your area this time of year

– sunflowers, roses, lavender, dandelions

– flower crowns and flower garlands

– a bowl of fruit and vegetables, especially anything citrus like oranges 

– lots of candles (Litha is a fire sabbat)

– colours like yellow, gold, and orange

– you could have a vase of sticks with fairy lights in it to represent a bonfire

– maypoles are still a thing for Litha

– a cute offering dish to leave out sweets for the fae

– a jar of local honey

– anything that represents the sun

– incense (sandalwood, rose, lavender, frankincense, dragon’s blood)

– oak leaves and acorns

– anything that reflects the sun like suncatchers, glass beads, and mirrors

the-witch-in-black:

 Also known as Midsummer. The longest day with the shortest night, the counterpart of Yule.
Celebration of protection, luck, health, transformation, community, career and relationships.

Element: Fire
Colours: Blue, green, gold, yellow and red.
Flowers, plants and trees: Oak, honeysuckle, lavender, elder, hemp, mugwort, rose, larkspur, vervain, mistletoe, wisteria, 

St. John’s wort, violets, rue, fern, holly, pine tree, heather, yarrow, sunflower.
Food, drinks & herbs: Anise, camomile, honey, vegetables, lemons, oranges, carrots, fruit juices, sunflowerseeds, cheese, dairy products, sea food, beef.
Associations: Sun, fire, feathers, sea shells.
Crystals: Lapis lazuli, diamants, tiger’s eye, jade, emerald.
Animals: Horses, butterflies, caterpillars, seacreatures, wren, robin, cattle, bees, snakes.
Activities: Bonfires, drying herbs, spells for love, growth, luck, health and protection.

Happy Litha everyone !