Litha: Third Thoughts

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)