Litha Practices

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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