The Summer Solstice – sometimes known as Litha, a term that may date back to the 8th century – is a highlight of the yearly pagan calendar. ...

The summer solstice will occur on Friday, June 20, and it will be both the longest day and shortest night of 2025 in the ...

Modern pagans call the celebrations Litha, and many will mark it on Summer Solstice day of June 21, as mentioned in the calendar of festivals on The Goddess and The Green Man website. But others ...

Litha is a Wiccan holiday occurring on the summer solstice. According to Indiana University , it is one of eight sabbats during the year and celebrates the beginning of summer and nature’s ...

When is the summer solstice? The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere occurs on June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. EDT (0242 GMT on June 21), and the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) – A celebration of summer is returning to downtown Wilson Park with the second annual Summer Solstice celebration Festival of Litha.

For pagans, Litha represents a fight between light and dark, and between the ruler from the winter to summer solstice – the Oak King – and the ruler from summer to winter – the Holly King.

The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer, which is the circle marking the latitude 23.5 degrees north, and which runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt ...