Rose Embyrs Spells

A Spell for Litha & Summer

My favorite spell during Litha and Summer is that which grants the wishes of women for a husband. Litha is known as Midsummer, Midsummer’s Eve, St. John’s Eve, and Alban Hefin. There are many correspondences for this time of the Witch’s wheel, but here are the one to use with the spell below.

correspondences

Symbols: Spear, cauldron, St. John’s Wort, Sun images, faerie images, fire

Foods: Fresh fruits and vegetables, pumpernickel bread, ale, mead

Plants: Rose, lavender, orchid, yarrow, oak, vervain, St. John’s Wort

Incense and oils: Rose, Lily of the valley, lavender, lemon

Candle Colors: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue

Stones: Topaz, agate, alexandrite, flourite, moonstone, pearl, emerald, jade

Animals: Butterfly, frog, toad, wren, robin, peacock

Mythical creatures: Satyrs, faeries, firebirds, dragons, sylphs

Goddesses: Aestas (Roman), Aine of Knockaine (Irish), Anu (Irish), Aphrodite (Greek), Astarte (Canaanite), Bast (Egyptian), Elat (Semitic), Eos (Greek), Flora (Roman), Freya (Norse), Gaia (Greek), Gerd (Teutonic), Grianne (Irish), Hathor (Egyptian), Hera (Greek), Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian), Isis (Egyptian), Juno (Roman), The Muses (Greek), Nut (Egyptian), Olwyn (Welsh), Venus (Roman), Vesta (Roman)

Gods: Any sun God, fire God or fertility God.  Apollo (Greek), Baal (Phoenician), Baldur (Scandinavian), El (Semitic), Hadad (Babylonian), Helios (Greek), Hephaestus (Greek), Jupiter (Roman), Lugh (Irish), Osiris (Egyptian), Prometheus (Greek), Ra (Egyptian), Sol (Roman), Zeus (Greek)

Activities: Family and friends picnic, leave food in the garden for faeries, jump or walk between bonfires, and gather herbs.

Rose Embyrs SPELL:

I call the Goddess Anu and the God Lugh

Bring me a lover, honest and true.

With this peacock feather and red candle

I burn St. John’s Wort and hold an emerald.

Let the Faeries dance, and bring me romance

I invoke the Lord and Lady for their glance

A bride I wish to be on this summer’s eve

So bring me a lover, for in you, I believe

St. John’s wort is honored by women who picked St. John’s Wort in hope to divine a lover.

A   M I D S U M M E R ‘ S   CELEBRATION

by Mike Nichols

The young maid stole through the cottage door,

And blushed as she sought the Plant of pow’r;–

‘Thou silver glow-worm, O lend me thy light,

I must gather the mystic St. John’s wort tonight,

The wonderful herb, whose leaf will decide

If the coming year shall make me a bride.

And the glow-worm came

With its silvery flame,

And sparkled and shone

Through the night of St. John,

And soon has the young maid, her love-knot tied.