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Here’s a tarot spread for you guys for the Summer Solstice!

Summer Solstice Tarot Spread 

Card One: How can I best shine my light?

Card Two: How can I best keep grounded?

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to welcome and encourage a joyous and prosperous litha~

This is my go-to Weekly Tarot Spread which I do without fail every week. Three card spreads are perfect for anything and are able to cover a range of different topics. All that’s needed to differentiate between the meanings is the question that you’re asking the cards.

This spread can be done prior to the official start of the week you’re looking for insight on (Monday) as long as you change your question to match. I normally ask one of the two questions below:

What do I need to know for this week?

What do I need to learn for this week?

Majestic cat ❤️😍 

Get ready for Midsummer Witches of the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice has a special place in my heart now, but I'll leave that for another post 😉

What is Litha

Litha is the celebration of the midway point of Summer. It also falls on the summer solstice, or the "offical" start of summer. Litha is the longest day of the year, and consequently the days start to get shorter, brining the winter. Some still celebrate the Oak King (God of Light) handing over the reins to the Holly King (God of Darkness).

Celebrate

Whether you celebrate the oak king and the holly king changing rulership or the longest day of the year, Litha is pretty much celebrated by everyone.

The ancient Europeans used to light wheels on fire, and roll them down hills into bodies of water. The cells had massive bonfires made out of, you guessed it, wheels. Stonehenge is also a gathering spot for current pagans for this celebration.

For most of us. We don't have access to a massive wheel to set on fire, and if we do, we might be hard judged. And with the slow openings of pretty much everywhere in the US and the world, we have to be creative and celebrate with what we have.

So here is my list of activities to celebrate Litha!

Build a fire to roast marshmellows

Make a suncatcher

Make sun tea

Shadow art!

Sunrise or sun set yoga

Make lemon bread, or honey sweet cake

Make a sugar scrub

Go on a nature walk

Make a flower crown (obvi)

Have a BBQ

☀️Wake up with the sunrise, do a sun salutation and clean yourself up

🧘🏼‍♀️Meditate in the sunshine with sun associated crystals (I used Citrine, Sunstone, and Quartz), do a Litha tarot reading. Ask things like “in what ways have I grown?”, “what projects should I work on now?”, and “what aspect(s) of myself should I focus on to keep growing?”

☕️Make some tea and breakfast (I made some blueberry pancakes and peach tea), then sit and eat outside

🍯Set out some sun tea to brew and bake honey cake

🌊Go to the pool and soak up the sunshine

🛁Clean up and get ready for the party (My witchy friends and I began having the party last year, and we will try to keep it as an annual thing. We had a summer centric meal, played with water balloons, read tarot for eachother, and had a great time)!

Witchy Stained Glass Art by ColdHeartGlassCo

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