Writing Prompts and Rituals for Winter Solstice (Yule!)

December 20, 2022January 14, 2024 Jaclyn6 Comments

Yule, or the winter solstice, is a time of year when the days are the shortest and the earth begins to tilt to bring us more daylight. At its heart, Yule is a celebration of both the darkness and the light, and it is an opportunity for us to celebrate winter. This post contains ideas for Yule traditions, the spiritual meaning of winter solstice, Yule rituals for writers, and winter solstice writing prompts to help you connect with the season and your craft.

Winter Solstice

It’s impossible to let the solstice pass without recognition when one lives this far north. At 3:00 pm, the sun has already set and on cloudy days it’s hard to tell if it’s coming up at all. These days, depending on how you count your twilights, we are getting about three hours of sunlight, and everything else is dark.

Winter Solstice is one of our family’s favorite holidays, and we’ve created some of our own family Yule traditions. There’s something beautiful about knowing that you have been through the darkest time of year and you know each day will get brighter and brighter. Every solstice, we create a mandala with natural materials.

We also celebrate by decorating “Bruce the Solstice Spruce.” A few years ago, we started the tradition of finding our tree in the woods and bringing him home with us. The white and black spruces that grow up here might not be as full or as round as the store-bought trees, but there’s something magical about the act of actually bringing the tree in from the cold and celebrating it.

What is Yule?

Yule is an ancient Scandinavian festival that corresponded to the Winter Solstice, the shortest day or the longest night of the year. It was known as the time when the world is the darkest and people would wait with bated breath to see if the sun would return. But it was also a time of great celebration, because the sun did return.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice usually falls on December 21st or 22nd. In the Southern Hemisphere, Midwinter usually happens on June 21st or 22nd. When it is Yule in the Southern Hemisphere, it is Litha in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa. Yule follows Samhain in the Wheel of the Year, and it in turn is followed by Imbolc.

The solstice actually is just one measurable moment: the moment when the pole of your hemisphere is tilted as far as it will be from the sun, creating the longest night. However, because of the importance of this holiday, many cultures celebrate this time of year for many days, like the Twelve Days of Yule or the week of Saturnalia.

Winter Solstice Meaning

Yule at its heart is a celebration of the sun. We have made it through the long dark. We are on the slide into spring. The sun is coming up more and more each day, making the world brighter and lighter. As the sun returns, we know the plants and animals and mushrooms will also return.

On one hand, the Winter Solstice represents the depths of winter. The landscape is at its most threatening, and it is a time that the land is calling us to go inward, reflect, rest, and hibernate. On the other hand, it’s a time of incredible celebration because the darkest time of year has passed and we have made it through. The days get brighter from here.

Yule vs. Christmas

Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is celebrated on December 21st or 22nd, when the earth reaches its ultimate tilt, while Christmas is celebrated on December 25th. But there are other differences between these holidays as well. Though a lot of Christmas traditions come from old pagan Yuletide celebrations, to me they are very different holidays.

For me, Yule has been the hardest sabbat to write about. Christmas is so prevalent in my culture and was such a bulwark of my childhood that I can hardly ignore that it is happening. But all of the trappings of consumerism and expectations at this time of year honestly used to make me a little bit scroogey about Yule.

On the other hand, this is such a spectacular time of year in the Great North. All day, the light is breathtaking. At night, the aurora borealis are dancing among clear, glowing stars. There is magic in the air, and it begs to be celebrated.

In our family, we’ve decided that we will celebrate everything. We do celebrate both Winter Solstice and Christmas. But, unlike Samhain and Halloween, or Ostara and Easter, I do not think of these holidays as interchangeable.

Instead, we celebrate them separately, as two holy days that are interconnected. On solstice, we make a mandala, honor the sun, and celebrate nature, including decorating Bruce the Solstice Spruce. We try to spend as much time outside as possible, even when it is 30 below zero, like this year.

On Christmas, we celebrate abundance, warmth, and generosity with a big meal, family and friends, the coziness of home, and gifts under our solstice spruce. To me, Christmas represents the time when the return of the light is noticeable, the day when it really does feel like there is more light than there was just a few days ago, and that is definitely something to celebrate.

Winter Solstice Traditions

One of the beautiful things about this time of year is that there are so many ways to celebrate. You can honor the return of the sun, or you can honor the shadows and darkness. You can host friends and family, or you can retreat into your own cozy little world. Bonfires, feasts, sacrifices, and inebriation have all been part of Yule. But reflection, rest, home, and hearth are also important this time of year.

One Yule tradition that has persisted is bringing greenery inside the house. This happened both as Yule trees, which were decorated, or Yule logs, which were covered in ashes, and burned later in the year. You might bring in mistletoe to embrace the properties of the tree it grows on. You could create a simmer pot of spruce or pine. You might bring a stick of willow or birch inside to watch the leaves bud as a reminder of the coming spring, or an omen of good things to come.

Another lovely winter solstice tradition is to give a gift, offering, or sacrifice. This time of year, we put out bird seed in recognition that even our feathery friends might be in need. It’s a time when we must give what we can because we do not know if our neighbors have enough for winter.

In honor of the return of the sun, it’s also a wonderful time to bring fire into your world. You can light a candle or have a bonfire, sit by the fireplace, put up twinkle lights, or just spend time in the precious sunshine.

Yule Correspondences

One of the most recognizable symbols of Yule is evergreen. But this doesn’t just mean pine and spruce trees. Mistletoe is also evergreen, and was thought to bring the properties of whichever tree it grew on. Holly and ivy are also traditional evergreen Yule plants. Animals that correspond to Yule might be squirrels, deer, owls, ravens, or bears.

Food that evokes the Winter Solstice are oranges, apples, gingerbread, fruitcake, cinnamon, root vegetables, and game meat. The colors that correspond to Yule are those of the sun and holly: red, green, and gold. You might also choose to reflect the colors of the land this time of year: white, blue, silver and black. Crystals that correspond to Yule follow the colors: emerald, rubies, diamonds, bloodstones, garnets, and quartz are just a few. Wreaths, candles, stars, and bells can also be used to represent this time of year.

Any of these correspondences, whether they be plants or colors, can be used to bring the joy and meaning of the season into your life. Anything you do with intention can help connect you to the turning of the Wheel of the Year. So break out your owl pictures, hang some mistletoe, light some candles, or eat an apple — it’s all ritual and celebration!

Yule Rituals for Writers

Here are some ideas about how to celebrate Winter Solstice. These Yule ideas are geared particularly at writers, as they are ways to connect with your creativity and your craft this holiday season. However, I’ve tried to leave them open-ended enough that they can act as Winter Solstice celebration ideas for anyone who wants to connect more with the season and the land. It’s a great time to reflect, be generous, take some time for yourself, and dream about the year to come.

Start a journal. It is time to go inward. Like the land, we can pull into ourselves so that we can grow even more next year. One way for writers in particular to connect with this inward-facing energy is to journal. Use one of those nice notebooks you haven’t touched. Use some of the prompts below that call to you. You might choose to start a daily practice, or to journal through the twelve days of Yule. Use your words to discover yourself.

Write the story of your year. As the year comes to an end, write about the key events of the year. What have you accomplished? What have you overcome? What is the overarching narrative of the year? What has changed? How have you grown?

Give gifts. What do you have to give, in terms of your writing life? Could you give lessons, encouragement, or even your writing itself? You have gifts to give, and giving can connect you to a community. How can you be generous this season?

Set intentions and make wishes. It’s a particularly good time of year to think about what you want to grow in your life. As the light comes back, take some time to think about the big picture dreams you are trying to nurture. It may not quite be time to set particular goals and make a plan, but explore your thoughts and intuition to dream about the potential for the coming year. Why are you writing? Is it to make money? To inspire people? To entertain? How can you grow into your fullest potential this year? What would it look like? It’s a great time to make a vision board.

Rest. Like the earth. As the world sits in stillness and waits for the light to come back, the animals, plants, and fungi outside are resting up for all the growth that is to come. We too need rest. This can be a busy time of year, and if you are anything like me, you have a huge to-do list of all the projects to complete, holiday plans to make, travel, and festivities. But these expectations of busyness at this slow and calm time of year makes it all the more important for us to be conscientious about the rest we are getting. Allow yourself to enjoy the time with others and to rest.

Winter Solstice Writing Prompts

Here are 30 Yule writing prompts to help you connect with your intuition and creativity at this powerful time of year. I have purposefully created these prompts to be interpreted in many ways, as inspiration for creative projects like poetry, fiction, or personal essays, or as Yule journal prompts. Don’t worry too much about what they mean. Instead, let your creativity fly with whatever comes to mind. It’s an especially good time of year to use these as winter solstice journal prompts, letting you turn inward to reflect and see what your imagination holds.

Write about a time of starvation.
Write a narrative that begins with finding a word written in the snow.
Start with a memory of a smell you associate with winter.
Write about an unexpected creature killed during a hunt.
Write about your biggest accomplishment this year. What kind of future does it propel you into?
Write about a scarcity.
You kiss someone under the mistletoe, and in that kiss, you gain some of their powers.
Write about what happens when the light comes back.
Listen to your dreams. Go to bed with a notebook and pen on your bedside, trying to remember your dreams. When you do remember your dream, write it down. Start your writing there.
Write the story of the next year. Pull one tarot card (If you don’t have a deck, you can use this.) per month, and write the story that comes up.
Write about giving birth to the sun.
Write about overcoming the darkness.
Go outside if you can. Take a walk with no set destination and let your intuition guide you. Write about where you end up.
Write about the naughty list.
Write about a party that lasts as long as the ale keeps flowing.
What percentage of your day is darkness on Winter Solstice? Do an erasure of a text that blacks out that percentage of the words.
Write about a fruitcake.
Write about being caught by the Wild Hunt.
Look at the variety of paints in the color white from Sherwin Williams. Pick one that is evocative to you. Start your story with the name of the color.
Write about a fire that burns all year.
Write a story that begins with an ending.
Find out how long the shortest day is where you live. Write a story that takes place in that amount of time.
Write about the first sunrise after the long dark.
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It’s not an easy time of year, but it is one of my favorites. As a girl who originally grew up in Florida, I couldn’t have imagined loving the world when it was forty below. But there’s something otherworldly and magical about the landscape of the north at this time of year. Everything, the trees especially, is dusted with hoarfrost, like icing on every surface. The snowflakes are distinct and glistening, which my four year old calls “glitter snow.” And the entire day is a sunrise or a sunset, depending on how you choose to look at it.

Either way, the light turns from pink to blue and slants across the ice to reflect on itself again and again so that the whole world is sparkling. And there’s something about the way that the air nips your cheeks that reminds you to be grateful that you are alive — that even if the sun isn’t shining, just existing is enough.

As I finish writing this, it is 12:18pm and already the sun has begun to set. The hills around us are pink with alpenglow and the snow is taking on the icy blue of twilight. There are hundreds of boreal chickadees in the yard. They are shaking the birch trees so that their seeds fall from their catkins and litter the snow. Even in these darkest of times, the land is preparing for new growth, and we can, too.

If you are looking for more prompts and rituals based on the Wheel of the Year, you can find them here. For more creative writing prompts, look here. For more ideas about how to deepen your writing practice with rituals, check out this post.

Writing Prompts and Rituals to Celebrate Lughnasadh and Craft a Magical August

July 27, 2022January 14, 2024 Jaclyn1 Comment

Lughnasadh, celebrated on August 1st, is the first harvest of the year, halfway between summer solstice and autumn equinox. Also known as Lammas, it is a celebration of creativity, craftsmanship, and harvesting what you sowed. This can be a powerful time for writers to connect with their productivity, hone their craft, and practice gratitude for what has been accomplished. This post includes a discussion of the difference between Lammas and Lughnasadh, the themes and meaning behind Lammas, Lughnasadh rituals for writers, Lammas correspondences, and ideas for how to celebrate Lughnasadh. It also features thirty creative writing prompts inspired by the holiday which can also be used as Lughnasadh journal prompts.

The Wheel of the Year is turning again. You can really feel the change up here. You definitely notice when it starts getting darker—not dark, still—but darker. Last week, for the first time in months, I turned the light in my bedroom on. I try not to look at the way the fireweed blooms are racing up its stalks. Or the fact that the irises and the dandelions are past their prime. Or that I know deep down we missed our chance to to pick spruce tips, which are one of my favorite foraged foods.

Instead, I am focusing my attention on the fact that, like every week in the Alaskan summer, the land has given us new wonders, both in our garden and in the woods. It’s a chance to resolve that even if I missed the spruce tips this year, I can make sure I make the most of currants and the kale. Plus, my first dahlia is threatening to bloom.

What is Lughnasadh?

It’s the first harvest! Lammas, also known as August’s Eve and Lughnasadh, is a time to celebrate the fullness of summer and to begin preparations for the winter. It’s time to enjoy the abundance of fruits, flowers, and vegetables that the land is offering up, while also preparing some of that abundance for the leaner times. The holiday revolves especially around grains like wheat and barley, and the crafting of those grains into foods, like bread and beer.

It’s the day that the Wheel of the Year starts to turn toward fall. Though the earth is still bursting with abundance, you can hear the first whispers of winter.

In the northern hemisphere, Lammas is usually celebrated around August 1st, about halfway between summer solstice and autumn equinox. In the southern hemisphere, Lammas falls around February 1. Lughnasadh is across from Imbolc on the Wheel of the Year.

Like Imbolc, Lughnasadh is often overlooked, which is maybe not surprising. It’s a holiday about wheat and when we’re all out here lost in the throes of summer, we might not think a holiday about wheat is super-sexy. And maybe there’s a part of us that doesn’t want to recognize that the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting real.

But it’s a beautiful time to pause and really appreciate the abundance that is around us this time of year: Berries are coming ripe, the shyer flowers are bursting forth, and there’s still so much sunshine. It’s easy to get so caught up in the joy of summer that you fail to savor it, to be grateful for it. The lovely thing about Lammas is that it gives us the chance to slow time, to take it all in, take stock, and renew our summer energy.

Writing Prompts and Rituals to Celebrate Lughnasadh and Craft a Magical August

Lammas vs Lughnasadh

You might be wondering, what’s the difference between Lammas and Lughnasdh. For the purposes of this post, I am using these holidays interchangeably, but they are definitely not the same. Lughnasadh traditions and histories differ from those of Lammas, but there are also some important similarities.

Lughnasadh was originally a Gaelic festival (shout out to my foremothers!) named after the god Lugh, a master craftsman and artist who created a funeral celebration for his mother after she died from overwork trying to get the crops to grow. Another story associated with Lughnasadh imagines Lugh as the one who sacrifices his life so that the community can eat. As John Barleycorn, Lugh inhabits the spirit of wheat and barley, allowing himself to be cut down so that others will not starve.

The name Lammas is derived from “loaf mass,” a nod to the importance of bread in this Anglo-Saxon Christian holiday. Like Lughnasadh, Lammas celebrates the first harvest around August 1st and pays special homage to the grains that are coming ripe. It was a time to harvest the first grains, bake the first bread, bless the fields and houses, and give thanks.

Many people use the terms Lughnasadh and Lammas interchangeably these days, and I can see why. To me, these holidays are different flavors of a similar celebration. Including these holidays together allows me to consider as many options for celebrating this time of year as possible.

Lughnasadh Correspondences and Symbolism

Colors of Lughnasadh

The colors that evoke the feeling of Lammas are those of wheat, the sun, and plants. Think fiery. Orange, yellow, green, brown, and red can all be used to remind us to be grateful for the harvest we currently enjoy and to start preparing for the close of the year.

There are so many ways to celebrate a holiday using just color. Wear red, write with an orange pen, add some more green to your writing space, or bring in a vase of yellow flowers. All these little signals can help you feel the energy of the season and be a little more mindful and intentional.

Foods for Lammas

Barley! Bread! Wheat! Beer! Lughnasadh is a very glutinous festival. You can imagine that baking plays a prominent role in traditional understandings of “Loaf Mass,” so anything baked is welcome at a Lughnasadh feast. But there are other foods to celebrate at this time as well. Just look around you at what is coming ripe. Here at our house we have strawberries and currants, salad greens, and the very first of our tomatoes and cucumbers. The zucchini have just started to emerge. Honey and mead can also be a great representation of the fullness of the sun and the abundance of the earth at this time of year.

Crystals for Lughnasadh

Again, the crystal correspondences for Lughnasadh are those that evoke fire and the sun, as well as those that evoke growth. You can choose a crystal based on what you want to highlight. Yellows and oranges, like citrine, carnelian, and tiger’s-eye can help you shine. Green abundance crystals like aventurine and moss agate can help you channel the growth and peace of nature.

The Meaning of Lammas

Though Lughnasadh is one turn of the Wheel of the Year that is often overlooked, the themes celebrated and evoked at this time are especially profound. Why do we celebrate Lammas? Some of the themes of this time of year have to do with rebirth, gratitude, abundance, harvest, and craftsmanship. Many of these can be very powerful for creatives.

First, there is the abundance to celebrate. It’s a time of creativity, of things coming to fruition. The earth is highly productive right now, and you can be, too. Use this period when the sun still shines bright to create and celebrate that creation.

It’s not just that the world is alive with the creative abundance of summer. Lammas celebrates that we worked for the harvest, that the intentions and seeds we planted earlier in the year have come to fruition. It is not only gratitude for the fertility of the earth, but also to our former selves for planting seeds, putting in the effort, and knowing how to make things grow.

It’s a good time to reflect on the work you’ve put in thus far and on how much your work has helped guide you toward your goals. Pat yourself on the back for the new skills you’ve gained, the work you’ve done so far, and the harvest that you are now reaping.

Not only that, it’s time to harvest what we’ve grown and turn it into something. This is the importance of bread for Lammas. It’s not just that everything is flourishing, it’s time for us to take action and turn the gifts we are given into something meaningful, something important, something that will feed us. And that’s exactly what we need to do with our words and our art at this time of year. Take the raw material and the skills and turn them into something that will nourish the soul.

Lammas is also a great time to think about the direction you are heading, and to change course if need be. There’s still a lot of time for growth before the winter. It’s even the time of Lammas growth, a phenomenon in trees where they put on a second flush of leaves. You too still have time for tremendous growth in the coming months. What do you want to accomplish in your writing life? How can you use the energy of Lughnasadh to support that? Let this pause before we fall into autumn rejuvenate your creativity. Take advantage of it!

How to Celebrate Lammas

There are quite a few writing-oriented ways that you can use the energy of August to further your writing practice, and especially to hone your craft as an artist. It’s a great time to practice gratitude, reflect on the year so far, work on honing your craft, savor the sensual feast that is summer, and set yourself up for the rest of the year. Here are some ideas for Lammas rituals that can also support your writing and creativity.

Give thanks. Look at what you have to be thankful for in your writing practice. Do you have a great community? Have you written a lot of words this year? Created one piece you are especially proud of? Create a list of all the things around your writing practice that you are grateful for. Keep this list near your writing space, in your planner, on your desktop, or in a drawer, as a reminder when the days start getting darker.
Take stock. Lammas is a perfect time for reflection. What have you harvested? Have you reached the goals you had hoped to by this point in the year? What has been accomplished? What has fallen by the wayside? What unexpected growth or challenges have you encountered? Challenge yourself to make a list of 25 accomplishments and wins so far this year. You might be really surprised at how much you have done, even if it wasn’t the writing goals you expected.
Create a scent that represents what you want to harvest with your writing. This is a great time to gather your fragrant flowers, your favorite herbs—everything that the land is bursting with—while the growth of the plants are hitting their peak. Make a scent that reminds you of this moment, this harvest, the bounty that is provided. Use this scent in your writing sessions to remind you of the fullness and abundance that is available when we nurture what we want to grow.
Level up your craftsmanship. When was the last time you focused on the craft of writing? This is a great time to get in touch with those skills, grow your craft, and really focus on the practice of writing. Find a craft book, a course for writers, or craft videos on youtube and develop your skills. Maybe a few new ideas will help you go further or get unstuck.
Burn your negativities. What do you think is holding you back right now? What’s keeping you from reaching your writing goals? What do you need to let go of to make the most of the rest of this year? Write down all your negative attitudes and bad habits and burn them. Let them go.
Bless your writing space. This is a time of year when blessings are all around us. We can use this energy to give new life to our writing space. How can you make your space a little more sacred? A little more conducive to creative production and harvest? Create a small ritual to recognize, give thanks, and bless the space where you write, even if it’s the kitchen table.
Recalibrate. You can see now what has been going well so far this year, and what has not. Lammas is this unique moment in time when we can see the direction we’ve been heading, and we still have time to change course and experience growth and creativity before the slow times of winter. What has been working and what has not? How can you move forward in a direction that will help you realign and get on the right track?
Set yourself up for the great harvest. It’s a good time to be finalizing the projects you are working on. It’s time to start shaping them into their final forms and getting them out into the world, whatever that means to you. What is the end goal of your writing? Being published in literary magazines? Developing your blog? Finding a publisher? Start moving in that direction. Polish off those pieces and get them out the door. It is time for harvest!

Lughnasadh Writing Prompts

Here are 30 Lammas writing prompts to help get your ideas baking. I have created these prompts to be interpreted in many ways, so don’t worry about “what it means.” Just let yourself write and see where your creativity takes you.

Many of these are intended as inspiration for creative projects like poetry, short stories, or memoir. However, I’ve tried to leave them open-ended enough that they can also function as Lughnasadh journal prompts. How can you explore yourself through these lenses?

Write about your first taste of the harvest.
Write about a corn doll that comes to life.
Write about a great sacrifice.
Research one of the crystals of Lammas (Here is a partial list: aventurine, citrine, golden topaz, obsidian, moss agate, rhodochrosite, clear quartz, carnelian, peridot, sardonyx, tiger’s-eye.) How is it made? What are its properties? What does it represent? Create a character with the same attributes as the gemstone you researched.
Write about someone who doesn’t know they are in decline.
Write about a plant inhabited by the spirit of the divine.
Create a narrative in which a wicker man takes on all the negativity of the people around him.
Write about the dimming of the sun.
Create a recipe for bread that makes dreams come true.
Write about a king who sacrifices himself for the people.
Finish a piece of writing you have already started. Craft it into something fulfilling.
Write about a skill you know well as if it were the favorite sport of the gods.
“This is just the beginning of the fall…”
Write a poem, story, or hermit crab essay in the form of a contract.
Make something greater than its parts. Free write about summer. Cut out the best lines and make them into a poem.
Write about an athletic competition that takes place at a funeral.
Write about collecting seed from something as it dies.
Research a local fruit. What is its lifecycle from fruit to seed to fruit? Tell its story.
Write about a prophetic dream that is spawned by an ash leaf under the pillow.
Write about what happens when you eat the body of the sun god.
What is a smell that you associate with baking? Write about that smell and the memories around it.
Write about a habit that goes up in smoke.
Write about someone sharing their first fruits.
Spend time outside. Document every detail you can. Soak it all up. Use this as the basis for a story, essay, or poem.
Write about the first whispers of darkness.
Use your memory. Think of one moment you wish you could capture. Write about that moment in as much detail as possible.
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I hope you enjoy these Lughnasadh rituals and writing prompts. It’s the time of year to celebrate everything we’ve accomplished so far, everything that has grown, and everything we have created. Feast on the berries and breads. We are an extension of the creativity of the land, and it is our turn to take what is on offer and turn it into something fulfilling, something beautiful.

So give thanks for the strawberries and savor that first dahlia. Bake some fireweed scones and let the things holding you back go up in smoke. These summer joys are fleeting. But they are oh so beautiful. And that’s something to write about.

I hope this helps you find some way to connect with the season and with your writing. Are you doing anything special for Lammas/Lughnasadh? Have any of these writing prompts inspired you? I would love to hear about it!

Writing Prompts and Rituals for a Magical Summer Solstice

June 15, 2022January 14, 2024 Jaclyn2 Comments

Litha, the summer solstice, is a time when the earth is bursting with creativity and a time when writers can get inspired by the sun and let their writing shine. This post has ideas for how to connect with the summer solstice, also called midsummer and Litha. It includes an explanation of the holiday, Litha correspondences, summer writing ideas, summer solstice rituals for writers, ideas for how to celebrate Litha, and creative writing prompts that can also be used as Litha journal prompts.

Summer Solstice

The summer solstice is one of my favorite times of year. In truth, I never noticed the turning of the Wheel of the Year until I moved to Alaska. Here, you can’t ignore the changes of the seasons. You don’t just notice them, you plan your life around them. In a matter of weeks, our yard went from several feet of snow to wildflowers. These kinds of transitions beg to be marked and celebrated. It feeds the soul to take a look outside and let yourself sync with the seasons, to let go when the trees let go and shine bright when the sun does too.

Image of a snowy May 9th and a Green June 9th

This post is an ode to those brightest of days, summer solstice. In our yard, roses, dandelions, and strawberries are just starting to bloom. The garden is taking root and it doesn’t get dark anymore. The air is abuzz with sunshine, mosquitoes, and bees. I can feel the energy all around and I want to connect with that energy, to infuse my writing with that energy, to let the heat of the sun light my words on fire.

Here are some ideas about useful ways to think about Litha, writing rituals to help embrace that potent longest day of summer energy, and a month’s worth of creative writing prompts inspired by the summer solstice. I hope they help you find calm, connect with the world around you, and create something beautiful.

What is Litha?

Litha is the pagan celebration of the summer solstice. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Astronomically, the summer solstice can hit its peak any time between June 20th and June 22nd in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern Hemisphere will feel the full strength of the solstice between December 20th and 23rd. When it is Litha in the northern hemisphere, it is Yule in the summer hemisphere and vice versa. It’s a time when the sun seems to stand still, frozen at the pinnacle of its strength.

This holiday is all about the sun. Litha is a time when everything reaches its peak: the sun, summer, the flowers, the trees. The world is bursting with life. The goddess is at the height of her pregnancy, ready to bring forth the fecundity and harvest of the earth.

But there is another side to the summer solstice that is often overlooked. It’s also the day that the power of the sun will begin to wane. As all things happen in due time, so too does the sun begin to cede its power to the night.

Litha Correspondences

One of the easiest ways to celebrate any holiday is to bring out the colors that correspond to that day. For Litha, think anything sun-like or fire-like: red, orange, yellow, gold, and brown all fit the bill. You can think of crystals in the same way. Many of the crystals that correspond to Litha are fiery, solar colors: carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, and sunstone can all help represent that height-of-summer energy.

All flowers are midsummer appropriate, in my book. To get especially deep into the holiday, you could use flowers that look like the sun: dandelions, daisies, marigolds, chamomile, and of course sunflowers are good examples. Also, the flowers that are currently in bloom locally are always a great choice.

There is a legend that summer solstice is the day that the Oak King gives up the throne to the Holly King, marking the turn into the darker time of the year. Because of this, oak and holly are both great to work with at this time of year.

All kinds of herbs might also be ready to be harvested around this time, and the peak of the sun’s strength is also associated with the peak of the herb’s strength. It’s a beautiful time to forage herbs or pick the herbs in your garden. If you don’t know your local herbs, summer solstice, when the herbs are at their most vibrant, is a lovely time to get to know them.

For feasting, honey is the quintessential Litha food. Edible flowers are perfect for that midsummer feel (We love deep-fried dandelions in our house, but I assume they are not traditional!). Citrus fruits and strawberries also taste like the height of summer. This is one holiday where fresh herbs will never go amiss.

Litha Rituals

Suncatcher

The summer solstice ritual I am most excited about starting this year is to make a suncatcher. Making one and hanging it in your space on the longest day helps to act as a reminder of the light of our nearest star, even on dark days. It can help spread more light and joy around your home as it reflects sunlight through your window.

Flower Crown

This Litha ritual is almost instinctive. The pull of the flowers in midsummer is irresistible and they beg to be made into a crown. I, and countless others, have probably made flower crowns without thinking of it as a summer solstice ritual. There is just something primal and beautiful about adorning your crown with the bounty of the summer. Let the beauty of the flowers inspire your thoughts and your words.

Bonfire

Though Litha is not one of “the” pagan fire festivals, fire features prominently. It’s hard to celebrate the fullness of the sun without celebrating fire. Traditionally, Litha was sometimes marked by a whole-night-long bonfire, from sunset the night before solstice (Midsummer’s Eve) to the sunrise on the morning of the longest day. Even if this bonfire-marathon is not available to you, you can have a BBQ, light a candle, or turn on your salt-lamp. Even small things can remind you of the light and life-giving power of the sun.

Mandala

This is a particularly personal summer solstice for our family. This is a Litha ritual that we actually have done every solstice — summer and winter — since The Surfing Novelist and I got together. In our own family solstice ritual, we collect the bounty of the season: flowers, rocks, catkins, whatever speaks to us. Then we use those things to create a circular mandala pattern. When we are done, we let the mandala stay where it is outdoors, letting the birds pick away at it and the flowers wilt as a reminder of the seasons passing.

Why Litha Matters for Writers

Solstices are incredibly powerful times and intense turning points. Summer solstice especially so. The world around us is bursting with its fullest potential, and you can be too. If you have been feeling like you want to step into your power, to live up to your potential, to really shine, then Litha is a great time to harness the energy of the growth happening all around you. Follow nature’s lead and let yourself be bursting: confident, creative, shining!

Sometimes as writers, we really need that push to get our work out there, that boost of confidence that our words matter, even if it is only to us. Litha is a great time to hone your inner sun, to step into your potential and let your stories shine.

Litha also represents the height of creative potential. The creativity of the land is blossoming all around us, and asking us as artists to blossom as well. Now is the time to let the fire within you burn, to follow your nature and express your true self.

How to Celebrate Litha as a Writer

Here are some ideas about how to use the power of the summer solstice to connect more deeply with your writing practice. Use the one(s) that speak most to you. Intuitively, you know what will help spark your creativity and inspiration, so feel free to tweak these ideas and make them all your own.

Reconnect with your goals. The wheel of the year has turned halfway. If you set goals at the beginning of the year, look back and see the progress you have made. Give yourself some love for how far you’ve come, even if it’s not as far as you might have wanted. What about the plans for the rest of the year? Do you need a new direction? Are there goals that you are ready to go after? Or goals you are ready to let go of?
Build your confidence. The sun shines confidently and powerfully, especially on Litha. It’s an opportune time to work on shining confidently and powerfully as well. Think about things you could do to help you build your confidence. I’m not talking about things that are dependent on others, like getting accepted to a magazine. I’m talking about things you can do. Share your poetry with friends, publish a story on Wattpad, start or join a writing group. What are some things you can do to make yourself feel more confident about your writing? Make a list and start doing them!
Write from sun down to sun up. It’s the shortest night, and one way to mark that is to write until the sun comes up. Where I live, the time is about two and a half hours between sunset and sunrise. Find out what the times of sunrise and sunset are, grab some wine, and let your fingers dance all night.
Write in a fiery place. If any day of the year is one to be outside, this is it. Jumpstart your creativity by writing in a new place or new situation. Particularly midsummer-y ideas are to write by bonfire, in the forest, or while sunbathing.
Do a writing ritual to connect with your creativity. Y’all know I love my writing rituals. Here’s one especially designed to boost your creativity.
Charge your writing. Use the energy of the sun to give your current WIP or your writing tools a boost. Find something that represents your writing: a copy of your manuscript, your favorite pen, a new notebook. Leave this item in the sun from sunrise to sunset, so it can absorb the entirety of the sun’s power. Make sure it isn’t something too precious (For the love of goddess, do not put your only copy of your manuscript or your laptop outside all day!). Alternatively, you can leave it inside next to a sunny window.
Let go. Like the sun, we all need to ebb and flow. What is holding you back from reaching your fullest potential? Are there people, situations, or beliefs that are standing in your way? As the earth begins to tilt away from the sun, you can use this energy to move closer toward your most potent self by letting go of those things that no longer serve you. Write them on a paper. Throw them in a bonfire. Let them go.

30 Litha Writing Prompts

Here are 30 summer solstice prompts to help get your creative fires burning! I have created these prompts to be interpreted in many ways, so don’t worry about “what it means.” Just let yourself get writing and see where the little jog of your creativity takes you.

Many of these prompts are intended as inspiration for creative projects, like poetry, short stories, or memoir. However, I’ve tried to leave them open-ended enough that they can also function as summer solstice journal prompts. Imagine yourself as the main character. How would you react in these new or different situations and what can your behavior tell you about yourself?

Write a story about a character whose fate is changed when they jump over the fire.
Write from the perspective of bees.
Go for a walk and note the first yellow thing you see. Use this in your first sentence.
Write about what happens when the sun doesn’t set.
Find a flower that calls to you. Do a bit of research about its reproductive processes. Write about people who undergo these processes.
Write something that features a medicinal herb.
Craft a story that centers around something that has stopped growing.
Write a story that takes place over the course of the shortest night.
If you were an herb, what sort would you be?
Write what happens when the fairies come out.
Create a character who starts their story at their peak. It all gets darker from here.
Write from the point of view of the sun.
What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of the summer solstice? Type this word into relatedwords.org and use as many of the words that come up as possible.
Write about the freshest feast.
Create a narrative that takes place entirely in a ‘tween-time, when everything is standing still but also in transition.
Write about the sunrise after the longest day.
Let yourself go skyclad and write about it.
Write about a pregnant goddess on the eve of giving birth.
Pull the Sun tarot card. (If you don’t have a deck, you can find pictures of the sun card online. I particularly like this one.) Looking at only the picture (Don’t use the description!), write everything that comes to mind. Don’t stop writing for ten minutes.
Craft a piece that centers around a meal that has been foraged.
Write about a dance that never ends.
Listen to fire. Light a candle or a small (safe!) bonfire and watch the flames. What do you see? Make a list of everything you see in the fire (Think looking for shapes in the clouds — but with flames!). When you feel you have a good list, create a piece that includes everything you saw.
Open a book to the exact middle page, and find the exact middle sentence on that page. Use this sentence to begin your own piece.
Write about twins who battle for the sky.
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I hope you enjoy these writing prompts for summer solstice and that these seasonal writing rituals help you connect a little more, create a little more, and let your inner light shine. Litha is summer, it is light. It is the full flowering of the fecundity of the earth. This is the time of year to spread your arms to the universe, or at least to your backyard, and let yourself burn as bright as you can. Collapse on the earth and contemplate the universe, then sleep deeply and wake up to the year’s next moment of change.

Do you have summer solstice traditions that you observe? How are you going to celebrate? Our family will be making our traditional mandala, and this year I am hoping to introduce the little one to suncatchers. I personally am hoping for the chance to write through the shortest night. If you use any of these prompts or rituals, please let me know how it goes.

If you are looking for more prompts and rituals based on the Wheel of the Year, you can find them here. For more creative writing prompts, look here. For more ideas about how to deepen your writing practice with rituals, check out this post.

Writing Prompts and Rituals to Celebrate Beltane and Inspire a Magical May

April 22, 2022January 14, 2024 Jaclyn4 Comments

Beltane, also known as May Day, is the beginning of summer and a great time to connect with your creativity. This post includes 30 creative writing prompts for Beltane, an explanation of what Beltane symbolizes, some Beltane ritual ideas, and how to celebrate Beltane as a writer.

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Writing Prompts and Rituals to Celebrate Beltane and Inspire a Magical May

What is Beltane?

Beltane is a pagan holiday that celebrates the coming of summer. This sabbat takes place around the halfway point between the spring equinox (Ostara) and the summer solstice (Litha). In the Wheel of the Year, it is even considered the first official day of summer. It is a celebration of fire, flowers, passion, romance, and creativity. It is the time of year when the outside world begins to teem with life. Reproduction is on display, from the birds to the bees to the flowers and trees.

Beltane is usually celebrated around May 1, though the exact date of the astrological middle between equinox and solstice can vary quite a bit. Beltane is also known as May Day or May Eve and shares similarities with Walpurgis Nacht and Floralia, the Roman celebration of the flower goddess.

Beltane Rituals

Beltane Fires

Beltane is a fire festival, and bonfires are central in celebrating the holiday. My favorite Beltane ritual is the idea of lighting your hearth from the communal fire. Traditionally, all hearth fires would be put out and people would light their home fires from the larger communal Beltane bonfire. Fires were also used for cleansing and protecting livestock. Fire, even in the form of a candle or small fire in a fire pit can be a great way to mark this day.

May Pole

Perhaps the most famous ritual of May Day is the May Pole. The most recognizable image of the May Pole is that of a large pole with ribbons strung around it. Often in the celebration of the May Pole, participants will erect a large pole or branch and dance around it. Beltane is a time of gathering after the harsh weather of winter, when everyone can finally come together outside and dance.

May Bush

One of the most beautiful traditional rituals for Beltane is the ritual of the May Bush, which is a small tree or even just a branch decorated with flowers and ribbons. The participants could decorate the tree to represent their wishes by writing them on ribbons, decorating the tree with something symbolic of the wish, or making the wish while they decorate. This ritual is easy to adapt to an at-home practice. Anything from decorating a tree in your front yard with ribbons to tying a wish on a favored houseplant will do the trick. Let the life and fertility of the plants around you help you find your own vitality and creativity.

Beltane Symbolism and Correspondences

Beltane is especially known for flowers. Celebrants make wreaths and crowns and adorn themselves, their houses, and their beloved ones in flowers. White, red, yellow, and orange flowers are perfect for celebrating the strength of the sun and the arrival of summer. Hawthorn, birch, and rowan are also associated with this sabbat.

Oats, wine, and dairy are all foods associated with Beltane, so eat some oatmeal cookies after your wine, or drink some oat milk. But also, it’s an ideal holiday for feasting in general, so invite over some friends and be merry.

In case all the fires and phallic poles and vulvic flowers didn’t tip you off, this particular sabbat is also associated with romance and sacred sex. Beltane is often seen as the time of year that gods and goddesses come together to copulate and marry, so it can be associated with weddings, love, lust, and new unions.

Colors associated with Beltane are green, silver, white, and the fiery romantic colors: red, pink, yellow and orange. In the same vein, crystals of these colors can also be used around Beltane. Emerald, malachite, carnelian, rose quartz, garnet, and bloodstone are all excellent crystals to celebrate this time of year.

How to Celebrate Beltane as a Writer

For writers, Beltane offers new, exciting ways to connect with the creative energies around us and inside us. As the landscape bursts forth with new life, so too can we find these fertile forces in ourselves and our own writing practices. If you have felt stuck as the winter dragged on, or are looking for something new and inspiring to light your writing fire, Beltane is the ideal time to act on those impulses. Here are some ideas for how to bring the celebratory, fiery, creative energy of Beltane into your writing practice.

Experiment. Beltane is an excellent time to let yourself play, let yourself dance around the metaphorical fire of your writing. Try new prompts. Try a new form. Draw your story. Beltane is a great time to try something new and see where the fires of creativity take you.
Honor your ancestors. At Beltane, like at Samhain, the veil between worlds is thin. This is an ideal time to think about your literary foremothers. Who has inspired you and your writing? Reread the things that lit your literary fires and let yourself reconnect to what got you writing in the first place.
Lose yourself in music. Have you been wanting to create a writing playlist? To find music that helps you write? To create your own background music? Beltane is an optimal time to immerse yourself in the ecstasy and rapture that music can add to your writing practice.
Let nature guide you. Take your writing utensils outside and let nature be your muse. Find a flower, animal or tree to inspire you. You could use this prompt about plants, or just allow a nature bath to renew your writing.
Light your candle from the communal fire. As we all begin to come outside and rejoice in the warmth of the sunshine, it’s an excellent time to connect with other writers. Join or start a writing group. Attend literary events or conferences. Find community that will inspire you and get your creative juices flowing.
Connect to your creativity. One powerful way to connect with your creative side is to establish a writing ritual. Here’s a guide to developing your own ritual and here’s a ritual specially made for connecting to creativity.
Start a union. Beltane is also a fortuitous time to hook up with other writers (did you see what I did there?). Find an artist or another writer whom you’ve always wanted to collaborate with and ask! Beltane will be supporting the endeavor!
Adorn yourself. Perhaps you are the kind of writer who is inspired to wear flowers in their hair. Ahem. Or perhaps some bright red lipstick, a new scent, or a particularly special piece of jewelry might help you connect to a different side of yourself as a writer.
Adorn your space. If your writing space is a little on the tired side, this is a great time of year to introduce plants, flowers, and fire elements. Buy a bouquet for your writing space and see if the beauty of the flowers rubs off on your writing. Get a new candle or a new plant to help transform your office (or kitchen table) into a place where magic can happen.
Explore your sensual side. If ever there were a time of year to explore the more sexual side of your writing, this is it. If you’ve wondered about spicing up your stories or trying your hand at writing romance or erotica, Beltane is ideal.

Creative Writing Prompts for Beltane

Write about a marriage that happens when the veil is thin.
Write about two characters whose hands are fasted together.
Write about a character who jumps over a broom and finds themself in a new life.
Go outside and find a plant or animal that piques your interest. Research and write about their reproductive habits. (Here is an example.)
Write a story or poem that centers around the different wishes tied to a May Bush.
Write from the point of view of a flower.
Write about something good that comes from a fire.
Create a character based on a dangerous plant.
Use music as inspiration. Put on something entrancing and just let yourself write whatever comes to mind.
Write about a sexual fire being rekindled.
Start a collaboration. Find another writer or artist who inspires you and create a story, poem, or work of art together.
Write about a romance that sets the world on fire.
Write about a union that starts at the May Pole.
Write about a dance that changes everything.
Spend time in a wooded area and listen for nature spirits or fairies. What do they tell you? What are their stories?
Write about a sexual ritual.
Write about what happens when the spirits of nature come out to play.
Use your favorite line from a song as the premise for your own piece of writing.
Write about your wishes.
Create a character who is transformed when they adorn themself with flowers.
Write about an old woman decorating a may bush.
Listen to a tree (bonus points for birch, hawthorn, or rowan, which is also known as mountain ash). Find one particular tree and connect with it. What are its stories? Write what the tree knows.
Write about what grows when the veil is thin.
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What are you doing to celebrate? If you use any of these prompts or rituals, please let me know how it goes! Your work could be showcased here.

If you are looking for more prompts and rituals based on sabbats, you can find them here. For more creative writing prompts, look here. If you’re interested in reading creative work based on some of these prompts, they are here. To deepen your writing practice with rituals, check out this post.

28 Creative Writing Prompts to Celebrate Imbolc and Inspire Your February

January 28, 2022January 14, 2024 Jaclyn3 Comments

Can you feel it in the air? It’s the depths of winter, but there’s something stirring. Even as the snow is still coming down, the end of winter is in sight. Even here in Alaska, the birds have started singing.

It’s Imbolc! Imbolc is the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, and it’s a great time to start new projects. In celebration of the day, I’ve created 28 creative writing prompts based on the sabbat.

Imbolc is the first day of February, and in the year this post is written, it is also a new moon and the lunar new year. So, the number 28 is no accident. Try one writing prompt for each day of February, if you feel inspired. Or, you could think of it as one prompt for each day of this Snow/Storm Moon. A moon’s worth of writing prompts. Write your way out of winter, and start your lunar new year off right!

What is Imbolc?

Imbolc is a traditional Celtic holiday that falls halfway between Yule (winter solstice) and Ostara (spring equinox). It’s the day the tide changes in favor of spring. The world is waking up from the slumber of winter’s darkness. The sunlight is coming back in a way that’s actually noticeable and though the world is still covered in snow (at least here!), the earth is beginning to awaken with the light. We are now closer to the balance of the equinox than we are to the drastic darkness of the solstice. It’s a time for hope and preparation.

It’s also celebrated as Candlemas, St. Brigid’s Day, or February’s Eve. Imbolc honors the goddess Brigid, especially in her roles as the goddess of the hearth, of fertility, and of creativity. It’s traditionally a fire festival, a time when baby lambs are on the way, and when there is the promise of spring and new life.

Imbolc is, to me, one of the most underappreciated pagan holidays. One of the things I love about Imbolc is that it is really a time for a fresh new start. Imbolc is a recognition that you need a period of rest and readjustment after the busyness of the winter holidays. It’s hard to start fresh the day after New Year’s Eve, especially if you’ve been out celebrating. If you are already falling down on your New Year’s resolutions, never fear! Imbolc has your back. It’s time to start anew.

How to Celebrate Imbolc as a Writer

Imbolc is an especially powerful holiday for writers. Why? It’s Brigid’s day, and Brigid, in addition to being the goddess of hearth and home, is also the goddess of poetry. This means that anything we do to boost our words and our creativity will be supported.

There are lots of ways to use the Imbolc energy to move your writing forward. It’s a great time to start a new project, to daydream and to plan. It’s the original spring cleaning. Here are some ways that writers can observe Imbolc to support their writing practice:

Spring Clean your Writing Space. Out with the old, in with the new inspirational space. Imbolc is a great time to declutter, rearrange, and create a space that will inspire a new year of writing.
Start a new habit. It’s a great time to start something small and daily that could have a big effect in the long term. Read a poem a day, start a new writing habit, start a new hobby, pick something new to learn about, journal, or pull a tarot card each evening. Find something small and manageable that will help support your writing.
Set some new writing goals, or spend time daydreaming about your vision. It’s time to focus on the new year and this fresh start. Now that the hustle and bustle of the depths of winter is over and we can finally see the light again, it’s a useful time to make a new vision board, or create goals for the new year.
Create a new writing ritual. Especially if you (like me) are the kind of person who has trouble getting in the mood for writing, a little ritual to start you off could be just the thing to connect you with your muse. Put on some music, light a candle or some incense, do a meditation, wear your sassiest lipstick or cozy up in the sweater that makes you feel like your best self. This is the time to think about how the small actions you take can be seeds that grow into a new way of being.
Spend some time writing outside. It’s not always easy to get outside this time of year, but Imbolc is a great reminder that it still does the soul good to be out in the trees and under the sky.
Try something new. Imbolc is a time of new beginnings, and sometimes the most refreshing thing you can do for your writing is just to try something new and get out of the same-old-same-old rut. You could do this with your writing (take a playful stab at a new genre, or a new voice), but I also think trying any kind of new thing can revitalize our writing. Go ice skating, go to a new park, or try a new activity. Anything that can give you a fresh perspective also helps make you a better writer.
Start a new project. See below for prompts to help with this one!

Creative Writing Prompts for Imbolc

Celebrate Brigid with some poetry. Use the Poetry Foundation to find one line of poetry that really speaks to you, and start there. You could create a poem, a story, or even nonfiction. Use the line of poetry that spoke to you as the starting point for your own writing.
Write about something waiting to be born.
Write about someone who meets the goddess Brigid.
Go outside and see it with new eyes, and ears, and… Use synthesia to describe what you see. What do the colors taste like? How does the sky smell? Bring us there by mixing all your senses and letting your metaphors run wild.
Write a story about a character who finds something magical while cleaning out their home.
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“The world has been still. But something has started to stir underground…”
Write about what happens when the snow starts to melt.
Check out the Ace of Wands tarot card. This is the card of new growth and emerging to a new state of being. Use this card as the jumping off point for your writing.
What happens when St. Brigid and the Goddess Brigid meet?
The nuns of Kildare, the monastery founded by St. Brigid, were tasked with keeping an eternal flame. Write about keeping a flame alive.
It was rumored that if a man crossed the hedge of the Church of Kildare, he would be cursed or be driven insane. Write a story about a man who crosses the hedge and goes insane.
Clean it out! Do an erasure poem of the wikipedia page of Imbolc. (Or another related page of your choosing).
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Write about making a bed that never gets slept in.
Write about a girl made of reeds who comes to life.
Do a meditation. (You can find Imbolc-specific meditations here.) Jot down the images that come up and create your work from there.
“It’s time to burn it all down. She lit the match…”
Write a story that begins with an initiation.
Find three things that need to be cleared out of your house. Use those three things to describe growth, without using the word growth.
“When I looked into the water of the well, it was not myself looking back at me…”
Write about something that has died within you, thank it and lay it to rest.
Winter is ending, and this means new beginnings are on the horizon. Write a story that begins with an ending.
Write about something unexpected “in the belly.”
“The serpent awakens…”
Write a story that takes place at the exact moment between seasons.
Write about starting a small new habit that changes the character’s life (or yours!).
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As always, if any of these prompts inspire you, I would love to read what you create. Drop a link below or send me a message. Truly, nothing makes my heart happier than helping people create, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate this special time of year than to write new possibilities into being.

Enjoy!

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