Come and celebrate Litha With Us:
Date: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Time : 7pm door closes at 7.30pm for Ritual
Cost: $10 and a plate of goodies
Venue: The Magickal Broom Closet
633 Hight St
Thornbury, VIC
Please phone: 03 9480 4431 to register your interest. or email events@magickalbroomcloset.com.au
Sabbat Info:
Litha
Midsummer, Litha, Samradh, Alban Hefin, Aerra Litha, Gŵyl Ganol yr Haf (Welsh)
North: 19–23 June (summer solstice) South: 19–23 Dec (summer solstice)
Midsummer is one of the four solar holidays, and is considered the turning point at which summer reaches its height and the sun shines longest. Among the Wiccan sabbats, Midsummer is preceded by Beltane, and followed by Lammas or Lughnasadh.
Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in Bede's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves a list of the (then-obsolete) Anglo-Saxon names for the twelve months. Ærra Liða ('first' or 'preceding' Liða) roughly corresponds to June in our calendar, and Æfterra Liða ('following' Liða) to July. Bede writes that "Litha means 'gentle' or 'navigable', because in both these months the calm breezes are gentle and they were wont to sail upon the smooth sea."
Date: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Time : 7pm door closes at 7.30pm for Ritual
Cost: $10 and a plate of goodies
Venue: The Magickal Broom Closet
633 Hight St
Thornbury, VIC
Please phone: 03 9480 4431 to register your interest. or email events@magickalbroomcloset.com.au
Sabbat Info:
Litha
Midsummer, Litha, Samradh, Alban Hefin, Aerra Litha, Gŵyl Ganol yr Haf (Welsh)
North: 19–23 June (summer solstice) South: 19–23 Dec (summer solstice)
Midsummer is one of the four solar holidays, and is considered the turning point at which summer reaches its height and the sun shines longest. Among the Wiccan sabbats, Midsummer is preceded by Beltane, and followed by Lammas or Lughnasadh.
Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in Bede's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves a list of the (then-obsolete) Anglo-Saxon names for the twelve months. Ærra Liða ('first' or 'preceding' Liða) roughly corresponds to June in our calendar, and Æfterra Liða ('following' Liða) to July. Bede writes that "Litha means 'gentle' or 'navigable', because in both these months the calm breezes are gentle and they were wont to sail upon the smooth sea."
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