Summer Solstice By G. de Purucker We now celebrate the third of the great spiritual and psychical events of the esoteric year, the initiation cycle centering in the Summer Solstice; we celebrate in teaching and by spiritual and intellectual suggestion the actual events of the initiations which take place at this time elsewhere on the surface of the globe. It is a most suggestive thought, and one ...

Litha 1995 A Midsummer ritual, for four people. The South Warden opens the Circle. South: Now is the time of summer, when the heat steams from the earth, the lakes grow warm, and the breezes bring heat with them, as well as rain. I invoke the warden of the South, Paralda. West: Now is the time of summer, when the rains fall hot and bring with them heat and making the air wet, soaking the earth.