Litha

Litha is the festival celebrated around midsummer/summer solstice, somewhen between the 19th and 25th of June. Personally, I celebrate as much as possible around this time as English summers are notoriously temperamental. It is the longest day of the year, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, which varies from year to year (this year it is the 21st of June) and is often celebrated over a few days.

At this time the Goddess is with child, the Horned God is at his most virile and all feels in harmony; thriving and existing before the Autumn harvest. To me it marks the feeling of the days ahead: Joyous and bountiful having done the hard work in the spring, we can now enjoy the balmy summer days and all it brings, where we celebrate the high points in our own lives. We are reminded to…