| Midsummer Ritual |
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| Midsummer is the when the God and the Goddess consumate their marriage. Also, the Fae are at their most active during this time and it is the longest day of the year. |
| Alter Decorations: Fresh Flowers, Blue, Yellow, Golden, and Dark Green Candles, Fruit, and Carnelian stones. Ritual Soap: Lavender Incense: Lavender Cakes: Fruit Salad Ale: Absinthe Colours: Dark Green, Blue, Yellow, and Gold. Invocation: Fireflies and summer sun, In circles round we become as one. Singing songs at magic's hour We bring the winds and timeless power. Turning inward, hand to hand We dance the hearth to heal our land. Standing silent beneath the sky We catch the fire from our God's eye. Swaying breathless beside the sea We call the Goddess, so mote it be! (invocation taken from A Victorian Grimoire by Patricia Telesco) Activites: - Blessings - Harvest magickal herbs - Walking naked through a garden insures fertility - Faery Magick is good - Midsummer is a traditional night for all sorts of magic. - Make amulets and dispose of old ones in the Midsummer fire. - Put a ring of flowers around your cauldron or a large bowl full of mugwort. - Hang a bundle of freshly harvested herbs out of dry and use them for spice in a Litha feast, usually of cooked summer vegetables. - Light a white candle and place it in front of a mirror; recite a Litha prayer over it and allow it to burn itself out. - Make a love charm with a seashell and hang it around your neck. - Catch fireflies. - Read a fairy tale. - Make liberations or leave an offering for the fey. - Magick to bring wealth is traditional, along with love magick and other kinds of enchantment. - Watch or do a reading of A Misummer Night's Dream by Shakespear. - Have a bonfire. Traditional Foods: Beer, barley bread, beans, peas, tomatoes, peaches, in season fruits and vegetables, and veal. Herbs: Hazelnut, aniseed, pine, fir, oak, rowan, iris, feverfew, sunflower, rue, red heather, honeysuckle, hyssop, thyme, rosemary, sage, mint, basil, fennel, chive, chervil, tarragon, parsley, lavender, fern, mistletoe, St. John's wort, mugwort, vervain, meadowsweet, and heartsease. |