Correspondences for Midsummer

• Also called Litha, Alban Hefin, Sun Blessing, Gathering Day, Feill-Sheathain, Whit Sunday, Withsuntide, Vestalia, Thing-Tide, St. John's Day
• The longest day and shortest night of the year
• Usually occurs on the 20^th or 21^st of June
• Fire Festival
• Midsummer is the time to�
  • Honor the God at peak of his power
  • Celebrate the triumph of the Holly King over the Oak King
  • Honor the Pregnant Goddess
  • Prepare for the harvest to come
  • Gather herbs such as St. John's Wort, Mistletoe, and Mullein
  • Bid farewell to the Waxing half of the Year
  • Welcome the Waning half of the Year
  • Commune with field and forest sprites and faeries.
  • Address business needs or situations where the power of masculine energy is needed.
• Colors traditionally used at this time are red and gold
• Traditional Incense: frankincense, lemon, myrrh, pine, rose, wisteria
• Traditional candle colors: blue and green
• Traditional gemstones: emerald and jade
• Traditional foods: fresh fruits and vegetables, pumpernickel bread, ale, mead
• Traditional herbs: chamomile, cinquefoil, elder, fennel, larkspur, lavender, male fern, mugwort, pine, rose, St. John�s wort, thyme, wisteria, verbena
• Traditional animals: robins, wrens, summer birds, horses, cattle
• Suggested decorations: Mugwort, vervain, chamomile, rose, lily, oak, lavender, ivy, yarrow, fern, elder, wild thyme, daisy, carnation, images of the Sun, balefires, blades, mistletoe, Sun wheels, images of Faeries
• Suggested activities: jumping the balefire, gathering herbs, clan gatherings, well dressings
• Attunement teas: anise, carrot drinks, lemon, nettle, orange
• Ritual oils: heliotrope, cinnamon, sandalwood, lavender, orange, all mint oils, lemon, saffron
• Mythical creatures: satyrs, Faeries, firebirds, dragons, thunderbirds, manticores
• Key actions: nurture and love
• Taboos: giving away fire, sleeping away from home, neglecting animals
• Goddesses of Midsummer:
  • All Pregnant Goddesses
  • All Sun Goddesses
  • All Young Mother Goddesses
  • Most War Goddesses
  • Aestas (Roman)
  • Aine (Irish)
  • Amaterasu (Japanese)
  • Anahita (Persian)
  • Aphrodite (Phoenician)
  • Artemis (Greek)
  • Asherah (Hebrew)
  • Athena (Greek)
  • Banba (Irish)
  • Bona Dea (Roman)
  • Cerb (Iberian)
  • Chup-Kamui (Japanese)
  • Coatilque (South American)
  • The Corn Mothers (Native American)
  • Dag (German)
  • Damona (Breton)
  • Dana (Irish)
  • Dia Griene (Scottish)
  • Djanggawaul Sisters (Australian)
  • Elat (Semitic)
  • Eos (Greek)
  • Epona (pan-Celtic)
  • Erce (English)
  • Eriu (Irish)
  • Erzulie (Haitian)
  • Flora (Roman)
  • Freya (Norse)
  • Gaia (Greek)
  • Gerd (Teutonic)
  • Gokarmo (Tibetan)
  • Grianne (Irish)
  • Hathor (Egyptian)
  • Hera (Greek)
  • Iamanja (South American)
  • Inanna (Sumerian)
  • Indra (Aryan)
  • Ishtar (Mesopotamian)
  • Isis (Egyptian)
  • Jord (Teutonic)
  • Juno (Roman)
  • Kali (Hindu)
  • Keca Aba (Russian)
  • Kou-Njami (Siberian)
  • Kupulo (Russian)
  • Madb (Irish)
  • Maeve (Irish)
  • Marici (Tibetan)
  • Mawu (Dahomey)
  • Mitra (Aryan)
  • Nut (Egyptian)
  • Olwen (Welsh)
  • Oshun (West African)
  • Rhiannon (Wales)
  • Robigus (Roman)
  • Sekhmet (Egyptian)
  • Shekinah (Semitic)
  • Spider Woman (Native American)
  • Tiamat (Semitic)
  • Tonantzin (Mexican)
  • Vesta (Roman)
  • Wurusema (Hittite)
  • Xatel-Ekwa (Hungarian)
  • Yellow Land Earth Queen (Chinese)
  • Yemaya (West African)
  • Zoe (Greek)

• Gods of Midsummer:
  • All Sun Gods
  • Most Thunder Gods
  • Most War Gods
  • Apollo (Greek)
  • Baal (Phoenician)
  • Balder (Norse)
  • Bochica (South American)
  • Chacol (Mayan)
  • Dagda (Irish)
  • Dharme (Aryan)
  • Donnus (Irish)
  • El (Semitic)
  • Hadad (Syrian)
  • Helios (Greek)
  • The Holly King (Anglo-Celtic)
  • Hyperion (Greek)
  • Ganges (Hindu)
  • Gwydion (Welsh)
  • Jupiter (Roman)
  • Legba (Voodun)
  • Llew (Welsh)
  • Lugh (Irish)
  • Maui (Polynesian)
  • Orunjan (Yoruban)
  • Prometheus (Greek)
  • Ra (Egyptian)
  • Sol (Roman)
  • Thor (Norse)
  • Upulero (Indonesian)
  • Xiuhtecutli (Aztec)
  • Zeus (Greek)

• Suggested chant (author unknown):
"Air, I am.
Fire, I am.
Water, Earth,
And Spirit, I am."
• Midsummer Incense:
  • 2 parts sandalwood
  • 1 part mugwort
  • 1 part chamomile
  • 1 part gardenia petals
  • a few drops each of:
    • rose oil
    • lavender oil
    • yarrow oil