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Litha Practices

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

cats-tarot-wine:

Here it is! The Summer Solstice Tarot Challenge! 

How does this work?

You follow the prompts for each day and tag them under #SummerSolsticeTarotChallenge. The persons with the most activity in the tag will be put in a drawing to win a handmade tarot bag by myself. 

Rules (to win):

Must be following me. I WILL check!

U.S. only for the prize (sorry, shipping is hefty!) but feel free to participate for fun!

Must be 18 or older and able to give me your address 

And that’s it! Have fun everyone!

🔥☀️ Litha for Lazy Witches ☀️🔥

sleepydryad:

Litha, also known as the Summer Solstice and Midsummer, marks the official start of summer. It’s also the longest day of the year, meaning the most amount of daylight. The sun is central in summer solstice celebrations.

Crystals: 

  • Fire opal.
  • Carnelian. 
  • Citrine. 
  • Pyrite. 
  • Sunstone. 
  • All green stones (esp. jade and emerald). 
  • Diamond. 
  • Quartz.
  • Fluorite.
  • Tiger’s eye. 
  • Pearl.

Activities: 

  • Light a candle, incense, or start a bonfire. 
  • Take a bath with gold/yellow bath bombs or corresponding herbs and flowers. 
  • Sunbathe.
  • Watch the sunrise or sunset. 
  • Meditate. 
  • Leave offerings for the Fae. 
  • Try divination using fire scrying. 
  • Create a flower crown.

Herbs/Flowers/Scents: 

  • Daisies. 
  • Marigolds. 
  • Carnations. 
  • Roses. 
  • Sunflowers. 
  • Chamomile. 
  • Parsley. 
  • Frankincense. 
  • Lemon. 
  • Lily. 
  • Hydrangea. 
  • Orchids. 
  • Sandalwood. 
  • Thyme. 
  • Sage. 
  • Peonies.
  • Mint.
  • Myrrh.

Colors: 

  • Gold.
  • Yellow.
  • Orange.
  • Red.
  • Green.
  • Blue.

Trees: 

  • Oak.

Decorations: 

  • Candles.
  • Sea shells.
  • Herbs.
  • Flowers.
  • Crystals.
  • Feathers.
  • Oak leaves.
  • Symbols of the sun.