Litha 2025: A Witch’s Guide to the Summer Solstice Celebration

Welcome, midsummer magic.

Litha—also known as the Summer Solstice—is when the Sun is at its peak, blessing us with the longest day and the shortest night of the year. In 2025, Litha falls on June 20th in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a sacred turning point on the Wheel of the Year, a time to celebrate abundance, vitality, and the radiant power of the Sun.

As a Green Witch, this is one of my favorite sabbats. Nature is thriving, the energy is alive, and everything feels possible.

What is Litha?

Litha is one of the four Lesser Sabbats in the Pagan calendar. It’s a fire festival, a solar celebration, and a reminder that life moves in cycles. After this day, the sun begins its slow descent—the light fades little by little as we journey toward the second half of the year.

This is a time to honor balance, abundance, and personal power. It’s also a reminder: the wheel turns, always. So dance in the sunlight while it’s here. Drink in the warmth. Celebrate your growth.

How do you pronounce Litha?

Say it with me: LEE-thuh. Soft and simple, like a whisper carried on the summer wind.

The name likely comes from Anglo-Saxon roots for “midsummer,”—and today, many Witches, Wiccans, and other Earth-based practitioners use it to mark this sacred seasonal shift.

The Spiritual Meaning of Litha

Litha isn’t just a day of sunshine and flower crowns (although I’m here for both). Spiritually, this is a time for:

• Honoring the Sun and all it brings—life, growth, healing, and joy.
• Celebrating our own personal harvests: What have you grown this year?
• Setting intentions for the rest of the year, while the energy is still vibrant.
• Finding balance between light and shadow, action and reflection.

It’s a potent moment to stand in your power. To shine unapologetically. To take up space.

🌻 Litha Correspondences

These symbols and tools can help you align your rituals and space with the energy of Litha:

🔥 Colors:

• Gold & Yellow – Solar energy, joy, and vitality
• Green – Abundance, fertility, and growth
• Blue – Water, clarity, and the sky above

🌿 Herbs:

• St. John’s Wort – Protection, courage, solar blessings
• Lavender – Peace, calm, spiritual connection
• Mugwort – Intuition, divination, dreamwork
• Chamomile – Rest, reflection, gentle healing
• Rose – Love, sensuality, sacred beauty
• Lemon Balm – Joy, heart-opening, lightness
• Mint – Vitality, prosperity, fresh energy
• Sage – Purification, clearing, wisdom
• Yarrow – Strength, boundaries, protection
• Calendula – Solar power, happiness, luck

Use them in teas, incense, baths, wreaths—or place them on your altar to soak in their energy.

🌸 Flowers for Your Rituals:

• Sunflowers
• Roses
• Lavender
• Marigolds
• Daisies
• Chamomile
• Yarrow

Make flower crowns. Toss petals into your bath. Let nature spill into every corner of your sacred space.

🔮 Crystals for Litha:

• Citrine – Joy, abundance, solar energy
• Sunstone – Confidence, leadership, light
• Amber – Protection, warmth, connection to ancient wisdom
• Tiger’s Eye – Strength, grounded action, courage

🕯️ Deities of the Summer Solstice

You can call upon sun-aligned deities during your rituals, such as:

• Brigid, Gaia, Freyja
• Lugh, Apollo, Helios

Work with whoever feels right in your practice. Or simply honor the Spirit of the Sun itself.

🎴 Tarot Cards for Litha Energy

The following cards channel that midsummer fire and vitality:

• The Sun – Illumination, joy, triumph
• The Empress – Growth, fertility, creation
• The Emperor – Order, protection, solar authority
• The Lovers – Union, harmony, heart-alignment
• The Ace of Wands – New beginnings, passion, energy
• The Four of Wands – Celebration, community
• The Nine of Cups – Fulfillment, wish-granted
• Wheel of Fortune – Cycles, change, surrender

Use these in your readings to reflect on what’s blooming in your life—and where you’re being called to shine.

🔥 Litha Traditions and Rituals

There’s no wrong way to celebrate, but here are a few ideas from my witchy heart to yours:

• Light a bonfire or candles and offer gratitude to the Sun
• Decorate your altar with fresh herbs, flowers, and solar symbols
• Dance barefoot under the sky
• Make a meal with local, seasonal ingredients
• Craft a wreath, flower crown, or herbal bundle
• Write intentions in sunlight, charge them with a sunstone
• Meditate at dawn or dusk and feel the turning of the wheel

🌞 Create a Litha Altar

Your altar is your energetic mirror. Let it reflect this moment of warmth, beauty, and growth. Consider adding:

• Solar symbols, gold candles, and representations of fire
• Fresh summer flowers and herbs
• Crystals like citrine or amber
• A bowl of water and salt to balance the elements
• Personal items that represent your growth or gratitude

This is your sacred space. Make it shine.

🔆 A Simple Litha Ritual

You’ll need:

• 1 yellow or gold candle
• A flower or herb (rose, sunflower, lavender)
• A bowl of water + a pinch of salt
• Optional: incense like sandalwood or frankincense

1. Set up your altar or ritual space.
2. Light your candle. Feel the warmth. Breathe.
3. Bless your water with the flower/herb, saying:
   “I welcome the light of the Sun and the gifts of the season.”
4. Dip your fingers in the water and anoint your third eye, heart, or hands.
5. Meditate on what you’re grateful for. What have you grown this year?
6. Blow out the candle with a wish in your heart.
7. Pour the water into the earth, offering thanks.

This is a simple way to realign with nature and honor the cycle we’re part of. Add music, movement, journaling—make it yours.

🌻 Final Thoughts

Litha is a time to bloom, to stand tall, to burn bright in your truth. Whether you celebrate with a full ritual or sit in the sun with your feet in the grass, know this:

You are part of nature’s rhythm. You are sacred. You are light.

Blessed Litha, my witches ♥

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