Rise & Shine!

[jack_babalon]

To all you Pagan Priests and Priestess out there (Neo, classical & postmodern alike), to all you Wiccan Witches of the West, to all you summer time ritual arsonists, freelance Thelemites, arm chair occultists & sigil dabblers, to those concerned and to those who Know: Have a wonderful, magickal, sex, drug & alcohol filled...

Litha! MidSummer! World Humanist Day! Gathering Day! Day of Cerridwen and Her Cauldron! Alban Heruin or for the Anglo-Saxon inclined... Alban Hefin! Vestalia! Caledonii! All-Couple's Day! St. John's Day! Juhannus! La Festa dell'Estate! Līgo Svētki! Midsommarstång! Feill-Sheathain! Along with a very Happy Birthday to Jean-Paul Sartre and a bow of the head to her royal majesty, on this most sacred day dedicated to her grace... the faery goddess Aine of Knockaine!

"Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand;
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be"
~ William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III,scene II

"…marry in the month of May
most surely you will rue the day.
Marry in June when roses grow
And happiness you'll always know…"
~English nursery rhyme attributed to ancient Celtic fertility rites

"I celebrate the noon of Summer with this rite
held in honor of the Blazing God of the Sun.
All of nature vibrates with the fertile energies of the Goddess and the God.
The Earth is bathed with the warmth, and light and life of the Sun.
The Wheel of the Year turns again.
Today the Sun is high, the Light is bright, the Earth is warm.
As the Lord of the Sun blazes above,
the Fires of my celebration shall flame below."
~Opening of the Apythia Litha Ritual

Comments

[aumonae.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hope that you enjoy Litha also.

[ptpenguino.livejournal.com]

It is First Nations Day in Canada, too.