Bring your drums, as well as food and drink to share for the feast to follow the Ritual. The public is invited to attend the ritual which will conform to, and celebrate, the ancient Pagan traditions. There will be drumming, dancing, chanting, and feasting. This day marks the division of the year and the peak power of the Sun. At this time Apollo gives way to Dionysus, Osiris to Set, Baal to Mot, the Oak King to the Holly King, Sir Gawain to the Green Knight, Lugh to Goronwy, and the rule of the Dark Lord supersedes that of the Lord of Light over the wheel of the year.
Balance is maintained.
Litha celebrates abundance, fertility, virility, the beauty and bounty of Nature. It is a good time for empowerment, for strong magick and male rituals, for handfastings and communing with Nature Spirits, for workings of consummation or culmination. The door to the Faery Realm is said to open on Midsummer Night, and twilight to be the best time for faery magick. Litha is a fire festival. The traditions of jumping the fire and driving cattle between two bonfires are observed the same as for Beltane.