Litha: Third Thoughts
Posted on 18th Jun 2020
by mhcweb01
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Things to Do
- Celebrate unions of all kinds
- Charge magickal tools, tarot cards, jewellery, crystals etc. (if they require sun energy, but not if they flourish with moon energy)
- Decorate with bright orange or yellow e.g. candles. Crystals, flowers
- Drink Mead
- Eat Honey
- Gather Herbs
- Honour both God and Goddess
- Light a Bonfire (safely!)
- Light a Citrus Incense
- Light Candles
- Make a Divination or scrying to discover how to direct your own power/energy and to what
- Make a Midsummer Honey Cake (recipe on Litha in pagan festivals page)
- Make Charms for success, protection, health and anything needed potent energy
- Make Elder Flower Champagne (recipe on Litha in pagan festivals page)
- Meditate on the Sun and draw in his energies into your body and life
- Meditate with the Earth Goddess or with the dark Goddess in the Underworld
- Visit an Oak tree
- Welcome and watch the Sunrise on solstice morning
Use Litha to achieve any of these to improve your life
- Be Empowered by the sun and in turn Empower others
- Bless the Bounty of the Earth and do not squander it
- Bring a project to Completion
- Build your Life Force and use it for the greatest good
- Celebrate all the good things in your life, people, animals, plants, environment, work, health…
- Do your workings that need Potency, Power, Strength and Vitality at his time
- Even at this time of plenty and vigour, remember that Nothing Lasts Forever
- Give Healing to yourself, others, animals, environment etc.
- Go to a Hand-Fasting or re-new your vows to your life-partner
- Increase Fertility in all its aspects in your life
- Let your Inner Radiance shine through
- Make a list of all the Abundance you have in your life and be thankful and grateful
You might like to add these, or their representations to your seasonal sacred space
- Associations: Bonfire, Flaming Wheels, Processions, Candles, Labyrinth (inner journey through fears)
- Animals: Bee, Bull, Cattle, Horse, Robin, Spider, Summer Birds, Wren
- Mythical Creatures: Dragons, Faeries, Firebirds, Manticores, Satyrs, Thunderbirds
- Colours: Gold, Green, Oranges, White, Yellows.
- Goddesses Mother Earth, the Mother, Pregnant and Dark goddesses, Aine, Aphrodite, Arachne, Ariadne, Arianrhod, Artemis, Ariadne, Astarte, Athena, Danu, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, Kali, Isis, Juno, Venus
- Gods: Apollo, Bel, the Dagda, Father Sun, Father Gods, Gwydion, Green Man, Helios, Holly King, Lugh, Lugh, Oak King, Ra, Sol, Sun Deities, Zeus, Thor
- Element: Fire
- Food: Honey, Lemons, Oranges
- Drink: Ale, Mead, sweet Wines, fresh Fruit Juice, Herbal Teas
- Herbs: Basil, Chamomile, Cinquefoil, Copal, Elder, Fennel, Fern, Honeysuckle, Lavender, Lemon, Mint, Mugwort, Rue, Saffron, St John’s Wort, Thyme, Vervain, Verbena, Yarrow
- Spices: Frankincense, Sandalwood
- Trees: Laurel, Mistletoe, Oak, Pine, Roses, Wisteria, Ylang-Ylang,
- Stone Circles: Stonehenge, Callanish in Lewis, Ring of Brodgar in Orkney
- Stones: Amber, Citrine, Diamond, Emerald, Gold Tigers Eye, Golden Topaz, Heliodor, Malachite, Opal, Pyrite, Quartz Rutilated, Sunstone
- Symbols: Spear (God), Cauldron (Goddess)
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