Litha is coming up pretty quickly! June 21 st. Litha is the Midsummer festival celebrated on the summer solstice, and is also referred to as the Fire Festival. Summer begins on Beltane (May 1st) and ends on Lughnassadh (August 1st), with the Summer Solstice midway between the two. Sadly after the summer solstice the days will once again be growing shorter.
So here is a good source of collective information about Litha http://twopagans.com/holiday/Litha.html
Also I have a neat little concoction I wanted to share with you for the Fire Festival
3 tablespoons Epsom Salt
2 tablespoons rubbing alcohol
1 lit match
And in 3,2,1 you have a nice little fire with no wood necessary that lasts about 15 minutes. The flames at first burn bright blue and very hot and eventually grow to about 8-10 inch flames. Please use a fire safe bowl like your cauldron and you may want to consider doing this outside on cement or if you choose indoors make sure you put something underneath your cauldron to protect your altar (or carpet) from the heat.
When I did this I doubled the amounts and put it in my fire pit outside with great results.
So what do you do for Litha? Any good spells or recipes? Please share!
So here is a good source of collective information about Litha http://twopagans.com/holiday/Litha.html
Also I have a neat little concoction I wanted to share with you for the Fire Festival
3 tablespoons Epsom Salt
2 tablespoons rubbing alcohol
1 lit match
And in 3,2,1 you have a nice little fire with no wood necessary that lasts about 15 minutes. The flames at first burn bright blue and very hot and eventually grow to about 8-10 inch flames. Please use a fire safe bowl like your cauldron and you may want to consider doing this outside on cement or if you choose indoors make sure you put something underneath your cauldron to protect your altar (or carpet) from the heat.
When I did this I doubled the amounts and put it in my fire pit outside with great results.
So what do you do for Litha? Any good spells or recipes? Please share!
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