bonfire
- Celebrate the end of the day with sparklers, storytelling, and music
- Offer a gift to the Gods of your tradition
- Hold a drum circle
- Plan a spiral dance
- Go for a bike ride
- Take a walk around your neighborhood
- Play outdoor games (horseshoes, volleyball, basketball, corn hole)
Dedicate your time or money to others
- Hold a yard sale and donate the money earned to a favorite charity
- Collect clothes around the house that are no longer used and donate them to a homeless shelter
- Organize a neighborhood or park clean up
- Sop by a neighbors and see if they need help (house cleaning, yard work, babysitting, grocery shopping, etc...)
Read a book
- Pause your busy life today and simply take some time for yourself
- Sign up for a summer reading program at your local library
- Join a local book club
Spend some quality time with your family
- Turn off every one's phone, TV, computer, video game, etc...
- Spend quality time with loved ones
- Take a trip to the zoo, a museum, park, or ball game
- Play board games or do a puzzle together
- Fix a family meal together
Clean and organize your home
- Go through attic, basement, closets and get rid of items that are not needed or used any longer (garage sale, community yard sale, donate to a charity or shelter, or swap items with friends, family, or neighbors
- Wash windows, clean baseboards, under furniture
- Perform a house cleaning ritual
Learn and Grow
- Spend some personal time for spiritual growth
- Learn something new about your tradition
- Learn a new skill (knitting, sewing, gardening, cooking)
- Take a class (meditation, yoga, dance, tarot)
Honor the Day
- Perform a ritual to honor the Sun Gods (like many ancient cultures did)
- Take a few moments to recognize the sun and the awesome power that it has
- Add various symbolic items of the season to your altar (sun symbols, candles, and fruits, vegetables, herbs, and/or flowers of the season)
This is also a time for strong magick, empowerment, and a time to connect and interact with the many spirits of Nature. It is said that on Midsummer Night that the field and forest elves, sprites, and faeries come out to cavort and romp around in great numbers. It’s considered traditional by many people to leave presents (which can consist of food or herbs) for the faeries on the evening of Litha.
It’s also said that the veils between the world’s at this time are thin, and so are a valuable time to do divination.
This is a day of inner power and brightness and so an excellent time to do a self-dedication ceremony, a re-dedication or affirmation as part of your Litha Sabbat celebration, ideal time to do love, marriage, and/or family magick or to rid yourself or your home of negativity.
Crafts, Recipes, Prayers, Meditations, and Rituals
CRAFTS THAT CAN BE DONE AT LITHA / MIDSUMMER
- Blessing Besom, Elemental Garden, Lavender Dream Pillow, Stone Circle Sundial, and a Handfasting Basket
- Litha Spiral Candles, Sand Candles, Pagan Candle, Stained Glass Sun Catchers, and a Mud Cast
- Offering Altar for Faeries
- Midsummer Feather Wreath
- Finger Knitting
- God’s Eye (or Eye of God)
LITHA / MIDSUMMER FOOD AND DRINK RECIPES
- Sun’s Up Cobbler, Lunchtime Cranberry Sun Mold, High-In-The-Sky Sunny Sandwiches, Setting Sun Taco Salad, Bright Memories Parfait, and Warm Glow Applesauce.
- Herbal Lemon Cookies, Lavender Cheesecake, Honey-Lavender Biscotti, Summer Pudding, Fruit Salad, Faery Honeycakes, Green Garden Goddess Dip, Faery Nectar, and many more
LITHA / MIDSUMMER INCENSE AND OIL RECIPES
LITHA / MIDSUMMER PRAYERS
- Prayer for the Earth
- Prayer to the Sun
- Prayers for Litha, Garden, Beach, 4th of July, and to the Sun
LITHA / MIDSUMMER / SUMMER SOLSTICE MEDITATIONS
LITHA / MIDSUMMER / SUMMER SOLSTICE RITUALS
Colors of Litha / Midsummer
Altar Candles of Litha / Midsummer
Incense of Litha / Midsummer
- Frangi Pani
Herbs of Litha / Midsummer (Herbs and Plants are said to be extremely powerful when gathered on this day)
- St. John’s Wort
- Dragon’s Blood
Plants of Litha / Midsummer (Herbs and Plants are said to be extremely powerful 