Summer Solstice is also known as Litha. It’s on June 20th in 2020 and 2021. Our song Celebrate Summer depicts pagans greeting the solstice dawn, then enjoying dancing and drumming throughout the longest day. We live in the Southwest United States, where summer is dry and hot until the monsoons bring the blessed thunderstorms. Our song Bring the Rain is a prayer to the Goddess of the Rain to bring the much-needed storms.
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Posts about Summer Solstice / Litha:
Solstice Magic
Healing in the Water I spent the weekend camped alongside the Arkansas river, trust, and believe she is rolling with all the ferocity available to her banks. All the flood gates were open wide, with the speed and determination she carries within her boundaries left me speechless. I found myself...
The Wonder of Midsummer
Ah, MidSummer. That time of the year when the days are long, fruits and vegetables are reaching ripeness beneath the warmth of the sun, and the natural world is buzzing and singing with life. It is also the time of Festivals and Gatherings across the world, with people coming together...
The Sun in Pagan Beliefs and Practices
The sun has been a central figure in Pagan beliefs and practices for millennia. As the source of light, warmth, and life, it holds profound significance in many Pagan traditions. During the Summer Solstice, or “Midsummer”, Pagans celebrate the peak of the sun’s power and its vital role in the...
Squinting at the Sun
The Dream of Gaian Culture Almost all of the Gaia Consort ideas came from the dream of building community and culture around celebrating the natural world. Imagine a world where the Great Cycles were taken seriously, hearkening back to the early days of agriculture, when we didn’t have the “luxury”...
Bring the Rain
As a child I loved playing in the monsoon rains of my childhood home of Colorado, splashing in the puddles and helping the earth worms back to their dark earthy homes after they were washed out onto the street. As an adult I have also run out into the spring...
High Summer Reigns!
The first three words of the song that I wrote called High Summer comes from a poem a friend of mine wrote years ago. “High summer reigns” and then her poem continues. The poem inspired me to write about my own experience of summer and the festivals that I attended...
Welcome to the Summer Solstice!
Summer Solstice. Midsummer. Litha. Alban Heflin. Feast of the Sun. Sonnenwende. Thing-Tide. By whatever name you know it, ’tis the season to celebrate the sun! The Summer Solstice has been celebrated for millennia all over the world. So, chances are, you know at least a bit about it. But how...
Aphrodite Rising: Summer of Love
All of the sacred self-care advice I see has started to sound the same. Take a yoga class. Be more mindful. Count your blessings. Meditate. Tune out the world. Turn off social media. Calm down. Chill. Relax. Blah, blah, blah. I’m over it. In the same way that I despise...
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