Litha
Litha is a pagan festival. It is the Summer solstice, the festival semi summer, opposed of Yule, it is also the most important day of the year for the old solar worships.
Its name appears in the Of temporum rations Bède Worthy the where it gives the Anglo-Saxon names of the months. This period would be supposedly favourable with the magic such as the love, the cure, protection… the Capacity is intense. In the calendar of the festivals of the Wicca there are twenty and one celebrations, of which Litha. They are the four Sabbat S major (Samhain, Imbolc, Beltaine and Lugnasad H), the four minor Sabbaths with the Solstice S and the equinox S (Yule or winter solstice, Ostara or vernal equinox, Litha or summer solstice, Mabon or autumnal equinox). Traditionally, the magi collect magic grasses in this day which is also longest of the year.
This festival corresponds to the Fête of the Saint Jean for the Christians. It is the festival of the rebirth and the fertility.
History
God and nature is with the apogee of their force, it reigns as a lord of the forest on a green heart throne the ground swims in the fertility, this day is famous because the sun is with its zenith, but it points out its future decline. The god of the oak fights the god of the houx which goes him, to gain the victory and to reign until Yule. The days racourcissent. The veil between the two worlds is as thin as in Samhain, one can thus meet representatives of the " small peuple" and the spirits of dead can more easily cross the border. The legend tells that if one walks accidentally on of Millepertuis the evening of Litha, one can find oneself with the country of the fairies!
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