Midsummer: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Litha

by Llewellyn, Deborah Blake

Overview

Midsummer—also known as the Summer Solstice or Litha—is a time to rejoice in abundance and light. This guide to the history and modern celebration of Midsummer shows you how to celebrate and work with the energy of the longest day of the year.

• Rituals
• Recipes
• Lore
• Spells
• Divination
• Crafts
• Correspondences
• Invocations
• Prayers
• Meditations

Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738741826
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	05/08/2015
Series:	Darkover #16 , #3
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Llewellyn Publications has grown and expanded into new areas of personal growth and transformation since it began as the Portland School of Astrology in 1901. Along with the strong line of astrology books the company was founded upon, Llewellyn publishes books on everything from alternative health and healing, Wicca and Paganism, to metaphysics and the paranormal-and since 1994 has published a growing list of Spanish-language titles.

Llewellyn has long been know as one of America's leading publishers of New Age books, producing a wide variety of valuable tools for transformation of the mind, body and spirit. Reach for the Moon-and discover that self-help and spiritual growth is what Llewellyn is all about.

Deborah Blake is the award-winning author of The Goddess is in the Details, Everyday Witchcraft,and numerous other books from Llewellyn, along with herEveryday Witchcrafttarot deck. She has published articles in Llewellyn annuals, and her ongoing column, “Everyday Witchcraft,” is featured inWitches & Pagans.

When not writing, Deborah runs the Artisans’ Guild, a cooperative shop she founded with a friend in 1999, and also works as a jewelry maker, tarot reader, and energy healer. She lives in a 130-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with various cats who supervise all her activities, magickal and mundane.She can be found online at Facebook, Twitter, andwww.deborahblakeauthor.com.

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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Introduction . . . 1
Old Ways . . . 13
New Ways . . . 41
Spells and Divination . . . 65
Recipes and Crafts . . . 93
Prayers and Invocations . . . 135
Rituals of Celebration . . . 151
Correspondences for Midsummer . . . 181
Further Reading . . . 199
Bibliography . . . 203
Index . . . 207