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PICK A CARD Spiritual Cleansing During Litha Season
Disclaimer: Only take what resonates and leave the rest behind. I am only posting this reading on profiles I’ve listed on my Linktree (linktr.ee/carinasibila) – all other profiles that might post it are fake. Decks used in this reading: Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Blue Bird Lenormand* Enchanted Spell Oracle** PILE 1 The Hanged Man, Tree*, Luck** Back of the deck: Judgement Your spirit is (unconsciously) burdened by a harsh – perhaps too harsh and thus unfair – judgement you have made about a person/group of persons. To let go of this burden, you should not plan your cleansing, but spend this Litha season doing something that grounds you – possibly in nature, or creating something meaningful with your own hands. Things will fall into place! PILE 2 Temperance, Key*, Wishes** Back of the deck: Knight of Swords Your spiritual balance has been unsettled by (a) change(s) in your life: you acted too single-mindedly or even violated your own moral code in the course/as a result of the change(s). To restore harmony, this Litha season you need to open-mindedly meditate on what your actions mean for yourself and others and accept it – but do not focus on the negative, as you have gained something as well. PILE 3 II of Cups, Anchor*, Faith** Back of the deck: III of Swords Your spirit is marred by a deep emotional wound that still hasn’t healed: you have suffered the loss of someone close to you, perhaps the end of a friendship or the break-up of a romantic relationship. Your clinging to the memories of that relationship is weighing you down – this Litha season, you need to let go and focus on the possibility that better days might yet be ahead of you.
its the 20th of december!! litha has started :D
(i still need to figure out what im gonna be doing rip)
litha
so ive recently been getting into a lot of star wars culture n stuff,, especially Mandalorian culture. aNYWAYS I'm looking through some recipes, and cause its litha in around two weeks im tryna figure out what recipes i could make for litha/ what things i could do. anyways tldr; im a nerd and like to cook
Feel free to elaborate in the comments! ☀️🌅
Also! Disclaimer: by "yes i am" , i mean anything! Even small things.
PRACTITIONER AND THEIR ALTAR/SHRINE!
<3 Happy Summer Solstice!
So exited for Litha! Going to be with my grandparents so I will have to do a *slightly-still-in-the-broom-closet* celebration but I'm sure I can figure it out :)
Celebrate Midsummer
Outside:
Collect Herbs and Flowers
Make Sun Tea
Build a bonfire
Have a sunrise or sunset picnic
Sunbathe
Leave out honey offerings for the Fae
Cleanse and charge your magical items under the sun
Watch the sun set on the longest day of the year
In the Home:
Let in as much sunlight as you can
Make crystal or botanical suncatchers
Burn incense of sandalwood, frankincense, rose or myrrh
Try fire divination, or scrying with the flames
Make pressed flower candles
In the Kitchen:
Make Honey Mead Bread
Eat a spread of fresh summer fruits and vegetables
Make Midsummer Mead
Brew Chamomile Tea
Bake Pumpernickel bread
Make fruit & herb infused water
In the Bath:
Soak in a golden honey bath
Scatter sunflowers through your bathwater
Bathe around fiery solar colored candles
Treat yourself to a chamomile Tea Bath
On your Altar:
Represent the sun using colors of yellow, orange or gold
Incorporate solar imagery
Decorate with green stones like jade or emerald
Try decorating with woods of oak and pine
Use golden candle holders and decorations
Incorporate dried or fresh picked herbs
Trying to figure out how to make these vegan.. If anyone has tips let me know! Happy Solstice!
Litha! June 21st
Hi everyone! Here are some very EASY ways to celebrate midsummer!
Open up the curtains and let some good sunlight cleanse your room.
Open up the window.
Clean cobwebs from the ceiling and other places.
Go on a picnic!
Eat some berries.
Pick flowers.
Light a candle that reminds you of summer or of the sun.
Wear a floral print.
Make a honey and sugar face scrub.
Make a flower crown.
Garden, or water your plants.
Just sit in the sun, relax for once and soak in new beginnings :) -Freya
💫 summer 💫
1. no necklaces or rings allowed! too much sweat. invest in earrings.
2. hair up! invest in hairdos that keep you refreshed.
3. for your altar, you don't really have to attract the fire element, just honor the possibilities that the sun provides. attract water, wearing or decorating with water or sea symbols.
4. speaking of water, take more baths, enjoy the pool, the sea, drink water. make flavoured water.
5. this is the season of fruits and vegetables! eat specially the ones rich with water. make fresh and light meals like salads and eat lots of ice cream and açaí!
**Reminder that "smudging" is part of a closed practice. Please call it smoke cleansing.
🔥☀️ Litha for Lazy Witches ☀️🔥
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.
🌿🍊Litha Orange Honey Cake🍊🌿
Hello my greenies! Happy Litha! I hope you’re all enjoying the summer sun and nature. Even during quarantine, if you’re able to take a walk in nature without contact with others, I highly recommend doing so. If you’re unable to go outside, I recommend taking the time to bake and maybe listen to some nature sounds on youtube. Those have helped me during these times. I wish you all the best with this yummy cake! I hope you all like this recipe:)
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
½ cup softened unsalted butter
2 eggs
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ cup granulated sugar
½ cup milk
½ tsp salt
¼ cup brown sugar
2 tbsp fresh orange juice
2/3 cup honey
1 tbsp vanilla extract
around a tbsp of orange zest
Optional Glaze
½ cup honey
¼ cup brown sugar
some lemon juice
juice of 4th of orange
couple pats of ground cinnamon
dash of vanilla
½ cup (maybe.. I never measure this out)sliced almonds
Mix until syrup state.
Directions
Preheat Oven for 350°F and coat pan with non-stick or other alternative. I honestly don’t know what size my pan is…so I’d say eyeball it and see how much you can fit? Lol
In medium bowl, mix dry ingredients (including the orange zest). Set that to the side while you mix the other ingredients in a larger bowl.
Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl with the other ingredients in batches. So, sift a little in and mix then repeat that until all the dry ingredients are mixed in.
Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for about 28 to 35 minutes. Check with a long toothpick:3 After you take out you can pour over an optional syrup that I think is amazing!
There’s no particular chant I do for this recipe, I mostly just pray for the sun and for the health of those I care for. I like to visualize the sun and its heat and color wrapping me in an embrace and that same warmth infusing the cake.
I hope you call have a lovely Litha and special time with those you love a care for.
- Kenzie
☀️ A Midsummer Bath ☀️
Inspired by this post, I decided to create a Midsummer bath last night after sunset! It was a great way to connect with the energy of the season. I know it’s a bit late to share the recipe, but I figure it’s good for anytime between now and Lughnasadh, and perfect whenever you need a boost of summery energy (though if it’s cold out you might want to skip the last step!). I used a fair number of ingredients, so modify this however you need to to suit your budget and available materials!
You’ll need:
☀️ 4-5 ginger tea bags (black tea bags and ginger slices work too!) ☀️ 1 cup of honey** ☀️ Red and yellow food coloring ☀️ a couple oranges and/or lemons, sliced ☀️ Lavender sprigs (please wash them first!) ☀️ Gold bath-safe glitter (not visible in the pictures, but it’s there!) ☀️ Beeswax candles ☀️ Tealights and/or yellow and orange candles ☀️ Midsummer-related crystals (I used citrine, fluorite, rutilated quartz, fuchsite/aventurine, green goldstone, and rock crystal (clear) quartz) ☀️ Sandalwood or lavender incense/candles ☀️ Spa water (if you stay in the bath as long as I do, you’ll want this. Trust me) ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ Midsummer Spa Water: add lemon slices, cucumber slices, celery sticks, and mint sprigs to a pitcher, then fill it to the top with ice water and stir it around. It’s ready to drink right away! You can also freeze it to make super refreshing ice cubes.
Start running your bath - make it a little hotter than you normally would (please be safe, though! Don’t burn yourself). Add the tea bags and honey. You might need to stir the water around with your hands a bit to mix the honey in, and you can check the temperature at the same time. If you choose not to use honey, a drop of orange or lavender essential oil makes a great substitute.
While the bath is filling, set up your candles, incense, and crystals around the edges of the tub. I prefer to keep the incense across the room so it doesn’t overpower the scents of the other ingredients. If you can’t burn incense or candles, try a lavender room spray. Add red and yellow food coloring to the water until you’ve achieved a summery, sunny orange!
When the bath is full, toss in the orange/lemon slices and the lavender sprigs. Sprinkle a bit of gold glitter across the surface, dim the lights, and get in! It’ll be like a lovely-smelling hot tub with much better atmosphere :) This is when that spa water will come in handy - don’t let yourselves get dehydrated, witches!
Once you’ve had enough of the heat, turn on some icy cold water. Try not to splash around too much (otherwise you’ll just end up with a gross room-temperature bath), instead letting the cold water sink to the bottom of the tub. The feeling of hot water on the surface with cold water underneath is super refreshing and perfectly suited to Midsummer - the sun is beginning its decline into winter now. Enjoy it for a bit, then get out before you get chilly!
Don’t forget to put out your candles. Have a fun and safe summer ☀️
**Vagina owners, please be careful with using honey in your bathwater! The sugar can cause yeast infections.
Id like to propose a Working for this Summer Solstice, the point in our hemisphere of the greatest Light and the greatest Solar Energy, a mass Working directing our energies at our nation’s politics, practices, and policies in hopes of spreading Light and Wisdom…. enough to stop these senseless policies of child abuse, highway immigration stops, the senseless rising tide of racism and hatred towards People of Color (whether our own citizens or not), the general turn towards Fascist Collapse our nation has been falling down in the recent past. We stand dangerously close to becoming, as a nation, the very thing we’ve been taught to fight against and the very thing we historically have fought against.
If we can come together and put aside the petty divisions used to keep us separate, I believe we can fight this turn towards Fascism.
I dont propose a scripted Working; I know that the community I am connected to shares many different working Traditions, and in turn each of the people I am connected to is themselves connected to a rainbow of diversity in their world, and so on through each of our connections… each and every one of us has a different skill set and different things to bring to the communal Table, and each and every one of our remarkable and beautiful Traditions is an expression of the Melting Pot our nation is SUPPOSED TO BE. This is an opportunity to revel in our diversities while sharing Enlightenment and the Light of Wisdom; it shouldnt come from one script or imply there is only one way to be a real American.
Solitaries, Covens, Iles, Houses, Circles, Munansos, Churches, Fellowships, Kingdom Halls, Lodges, Clans, Kindreds… we can all come together in common purpose and need. The Solstice is this Thursday, the 21st. We could easily keep this going with those who may only have time to Work this weekend; we can easily put aside the barriers that stand between us and come together.
Will you join me?
Rather than scripting rites or dictating the things I feel people should pray for, I ask one thing; a common fixation point as a receptacle of our prayers and raised energies, a common symbol we all instantly know and who’s meaning is being degraded with every passing moment.
Lady Liberty’s Torch.
Share this post if you would; tag people, temples, and shops. Pass it around if you can, and together we can see how many Workers we can bring together across this country (and we’ll GLADLY accept help from around the world, too!) Come together with us to rekindle real Liberty in this country, as that proverbial Light is threatened with being extinguished. Bring our diverse lights together in our shared humanity, beautiful differences and all.
I would like to offer services at my altar for any who would like a candle lit for their prayers; I ask and encourage ALL of us with stores, temples, or public altars to open them as well to our communities and to those who wish to participate but who do not have the spaces to do so. Small donations to cover costs of candles and supplies are welcomed through paypal to hounganmatt@darklady.net if you’d like to join in the altars here, and I encourage other shopkeepers, lodges, temples, and churches to offer the same.
May we Shine.
Happy Litha everyone! I will be performing a rite today at noon central time for this purpose. If you would like me to light a candle and send energy on your behalf, please let me know within the next few hours so I can make preparations.
Id like to propose a Working for this Summer Solstice, the point in our hemisphere of the greatest Light and the greatest Solar Energy, a mass Working directing our energies at our nation’s politics, practices, and policies in hopes of spreading Light and Wisdom…. enough to stop these senseless policies of child abuse, highway immigration stops, the senseless rising tide of racism and hatred towards People of Color (whether our own citizens or not), the general turn towards Fascist Collapse our nation has been falling down in the recent past. We stand dangerously close to becoming, as a nation, the very thing we’ve been taught to fight against and the very thing we historically have fought against.
If we can come together and put aside the petty divisions used to keep us separate, I believe we can fight this turn towards Fascism.
I dont propose a scripted Working; I know that the community I am connected to shares many different working Traditions, and in turn each of the people I am connected to is themselves connected to a rainbow of diversity in their world, and so on through each of our connections… each and every one of us has a different skill set and different things to bring to the communal Table, and each and every one of our remarkable and beautiful Traditions is an expression of the Melting Pot our nation is SUPPOSED TO BE. This is an opportunity to revel in our diversities while sharing Enlightenment and the Light of Wisdom; it shouldnt come from one script or imply there is only one way to be a real American.
Solitaries, Covens, Iles, Houses, Circles, Munansos, Churches, Fellowships, Kingdom Halls, Lodges, Clans, Kindreds… we can all come together in common purpose and need. The Solstice is this Thursday, the 21st. We could easily keep this going with those who may only have time to Work this weekend; we can easily put aside the barriers that stand between us and come together.
Will you join me?
Rather than scripting rites or dictating the things I feel people should pray for, I ask one thing; a common fixation point as a receptacle of our prayers and raised energies, a common symbol we all instantly know and who’s meaning is being degraded with every passing moment.
Lady Liberty’s Torch.
Share this post if you would; tag people, temples, and shops. Pass it around if you can, and together we can see how many Workers we can bring together across this country (and we’ll GLADLY accept help from around the world, too!) Come together with us to rekindle real Liberty in this country, as that proverbial Light is threatened with being extinguished. Bring our diverse lights together in our shared humanity, beautiful differences and all.
I would like to offer services at my altar for any who would like a candle lit for their prayers; I ask and encourage ALL of us with stores, temples, or public altars to open them as well to our communities and to those who wish to participate but who do not have the spaces to do so. Small donations to cover costs of candles and supplies are welcomed through paypal to hounganmatt@darklady.net if you’d like to join in the altars here, and I encourage other shopkeepers, lodges, temples, and churches to offer the same.
May we Shine.