The summer solstice and Midsummer are magical date on which Nature gives us his magic. Take advantage of these parties to make a wish, improve your income, cure ailments and even increase your psychic powers or attract true love. Here are some rituals in which plants, whose power increased during these days, play a role.
The Night of San Juan has happened to our calendar as a Catholic festival, but has its roots in pagan rituals that were held during the summer solstice and the zenith of the sun. In the Northern Hemisphere, at noon on June 21, the Sun reaches the highest point in the sky, and the journey becomes the longest of the year. Since then the days get shorter. Our ancestors feared that the sun is hiding out gradually and did not recover its full splendor. And to ensure its return, and to promote soil fertility and abundant harvests, carried out ceremonies where the fire was the star as a solar symbol.
These festivals ranging from 20 to 24 June, and for them took place all kinds magical rituals. Celtic Druids, for example, large lighted bonfires which were passed to protect from livestock epidemics. It was believed that in those days fairies and elves of Nature went loose in the fields, so that they are engaged in offering a reward for his help. Fires were made before the doors of the houses in the village squares, on the summits of hills and mountains or the sea, in which burned wooden wheels that were missing at roll down the slopes and organized processions with torches. But the most widespread protection ritual was dancing and jumping around the fire. In the morning the fires were extinguished as a renewal.
Similar backgrounds can be found in the festivals of Beltaine (May 1) of the Druids, whose name means fire beautiful. Also in Greek mythology the solstices were considered as the gates of the year and were dedicated to the god Janus, the god of two faces. It was said that the winter solstice door opened into the realm of the gods and the summer solstice to the realm of men.
not hard to see the similarity between Janus and John, and assume that the Christian religion inserted the Feast of St. John the Evangelist (December 27) and San Juan Bautista (June 24) in the vicinity of the two solstices to give continuity to the pagan rites overlapping. These could well continue to be held without being suspected of witchcraft. And as a result we have reached many rituals to enhance the protection of nature and its beings and to make wishes come true. Here we collect some of them, mainly based on the magical powers attributed to the legend associated plants tonight.
make a wish on June 23 evening put under your pillow, a branch of common ivy and a white paper on which you wrote that you would like to improve your life. Make sure that your desire to fit a real need, not be as fancy or ambitious it impossible to obtain. And also note that compliance with respect to others. You can not ask something that causes the evil alien. Before going to sleep, light a white candle, let it consume and then introduced along the paper and wax ivy that are left. Lie asking the universe that meets your prayer and give thanks for what you already have. The next day the paper burn and bury all the items in your garden in a pot in your home or in the field to make it fruitful land your hopes.
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