Quick Specs
- Brand: Lailokens Awen
- Type: Beeswax pillar candle, hand-anointed with Summer Solstice oil
- Size: 4 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches diameter, yellow
- Best for: Litha altar, peak solar workings, growth and vitality rites, midsummer fire
Litha and the Peak of Solar Power
The Summer Solstice, called Litha in many modern Pagan traditions, falls around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun reaches its highest arc and the day is longer than any other in the year. This is the moment of the Oak King’s full power, the solar force that has been growing since Yule, now at its zenith before it begins the slow decline toward darkness. Midsummer bonfires have been lit across Northern Europe since at least the early medieval period, with communities climbing hilltops to ignite communal fires as offerings to the sun and as protection against midsummer spirits believed to be especially active at the threshold between seasons.
Lailokens Awen creates this candle on the actual day of the Summer Solstice, working with the Hermetic principle that ritual materials made at the moment of maximum correspondence carry the strongest attunement to that energy. The yellow beeswax aligns with the sun’s color at its peak, and the Summer Solstice anointing oil is blended from organic essential oils associated with solar and vitality correspondences. St. John’s wort, which traditionally blooms at midsummer and carries solar symbolism in folk herbalism, is among the plants historically cut on this day for protective and healing use.
Solar Workings and the Midsummer Altar
A Litha altar typically includes sunflowers, citrine or sunstone, beeswax candles, and symbols of the sun such as spirals, wheels, or gold discs. This yellow pillar candle anchors the fire element on that altar and carries the specific intention of the solstice rather than generic solar energy. Practitioners use Litha workings for anything connected to peak vitality, creative output, confidence, projects already in motion that need the full solar push to complete, and thanksgiving for what has grown so far in the year’s arc.
The candle can also be burned throughout the summer months to attune to growth, vitality, and solar energy whenever you need to draw on that correspondence outside the solstice date. Trim the wick to a quarter inch before each burn session. Lailokens Awen’s propolis-free beeswax makes this a good choice for practitioners sensitive to the typical beeswax allergen profile. Slight color variations occur between batches as a natural result of working with beeswax from different harvests.
How to Use the Summer Solstice Altar Candle
Steps for working with the Lailokens Awen Summer Solstice candle on Litha and throughout the summer.
- Set your Litha altar
Arrange sunflowers, citrine or sunstone, gold fabric, and sun symbols around the candle. Trim the wick to one-quarter inch. Place it in a pillar holder at the altar center to anchor solar fire for your Summer Solstice working.
- Light at noon or sunrise on the solstice
Light the candle at the sun’s highest point on June 21 or at sunrise to greet the solstice dawn. State what you are grateful for and what you want the peak solar energy to carry into fruition before the light begins to wane.
- Burn through summer for vitality workings
Use the candle throughout the summer for any working tied to growth, creative output, confidence, or vitality. Each session draws on the same Summer Solstice correspondence the candle was anointed with, extending its ritual value.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock Lailokens Awen’s sabbat candles because the production standard is genuinely different from what most shops carry. Making each candle on the day of the corresponding sabbat, using propolis-free beeswax and organic essential oils, takes real commitment to the Hermetic framework rather than just labeling a generic pillar candle with a seasonal name. For the complete set of sabbat and seasonal candles from the same maker, browse my full Lailokens Awen collection. For ritual and altar tools to build out your Litha working, explore my altar supplies.
Frequently Asked Questions
In modern Wicca and Druidic practice the Summer Solstice is most often called Litha, though Midsummer is also widely used. It falls around June 21 and marks the longest day of the year when solar energy is at its annual peak.
Yellow aligns with solar symbolism and the sun’s peak brightness. In Oak King mythology the Oak King rules the waxing half of the year and reaches full power at the Summer Solstice, represented by gold and yellow in most traditions.
Yes. The description encourages burning it throughout the year to attune to solar energy, growth, and vitality. The anointing oil carries the Summer Solstice correspondence and works for aligned intentions regardless of the date.
It carries only a faint balsamic trace from the organic essential oil blend. Propolis-free beeswax reduces the typical beeswax scent. This is an intentional ritual candle formulated for Hermetic correspondence, not strong scent throw.
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