Summer Witchcraft Practices for Seasonal Magic

The Gundestrup Cauldron

My witchcraft shifts and changes throughout the year, and right around the Summer Solstice, I begin weaving in my summer magical practices. This season of summer magic and seasonal witchcraft often includes welcoming different deities and spirits, taking more of my practice outdoors, actively harvesting for a bit of green witchery, and working more frequently with flowers and the winged messengers that love them.

During the summer, my practice turns toward green witchcraft and the magic of flowers, fire, and water, and I spend a lot of time with trees, breathing with them and feeling their energy at the time of year when they are most active.

Spirit Work for Summer Witchcraft

If you work with spirits or would like to, you can make a simple altar to the Green God and ask him to bring his magic into your life. My ancestors mostly came from Europe, so I see him as very similar to Cernunnos or the Horned God. He is a fierce protector of the wild green of nature and the beings that live there. The Green God will bring a little bit of the wild into your life, yard, and home.

You can create an altar outside or inside. Start by finding a small plaque of the Green God. If you don't have one or can't find one, you can make an image using leaves, sticks, twigs, pebbles, cones, or sticks for his features. If you make the altar outdoors, you can place rocks or sticks in a circle around the altar to define it as special. If you want, you can finish the dedication by lighting a candle, pouring water around it, and placing some offerings there. My offerings usually include water or seasonal foliage.

An Expansion Spell for Your Witchcraft Practice

Although people think of winter as the time to do research, summer holds a lot of expansive magical energy. So you can create a simple spell to help grow your magical practice. Start by lighting a candle at any summer new moon and ask to be shown ways that your practice can expand and grow. Then ask for dreams or sources to come to you that will help. And take note of what comes to you.

Another way you can do this is to write on an oak leaf your desire to grow in your craft. Then you can burn that leaf at noon or at the new moon. If you can't find an oak leaf, you can simply burn shredded oak bark that you buy as you're stating your desire to grow in your craft.

A Simple Water Blessing Ritual

With wildfires becoming more prevalent, water sources, rainfall, and snowpack are very much on my mind. I do a lot of magic around honoring water. In the summer, I like to do regular offerings of water to the Earth. And it just involves doing something I already do. Watering my plants. But it can be done anywhere outside. You can do that in your yard, you can do that on a balcony, you can do that with your houseplants, whatever works for you in your life.

Fill a jug, a hose, or a watering bucket. As you pour the water out, just offer a simple blessing or a wish out loud for the Earth to have the water it needs in the right amounts.

You can also donate money to Indigenous water protectors anytime. But if you want to give it a boost, you can do that at noon near the summer solstice, or you can do that at the new moon. Then ask that your offering and their work be magnified ten times.

You can also just go to a local water source in town, even if that's the local fire hydrant, and just offer a wish or a prayer that water's ability to be here on the Earth can survive and thrive and be accessible to all.

A Flower Spell for Self-Blessing

Summer is the season of flowers, and a self-blessing ritual using summer’s blooms is one way to do that. It can be as simple as creating a vase of flowers, adding a candle, and a picture of yourself that you like. Then, just as you light the candle, try to say a phrase that includes something you can authentically say that you like about yourself three times. When you're done, either snuff the candle or let it burn all the way out.

It's possible that, for some of us, this practice might feel like a bit of a stretch, or we might feel uncomfortable doing that. Often, the less we fit the cultural norms of being white, young, skinny, a binary gender, or many other things, the harder it is to feel accepted and to accept ourselves.

One thing someone said to me during a ritual that might help you is that our bodies literally come from the Earth. It's unlikely that the Earth looks around at the things that have emerged from it and thinks, "Wow, I don't know about that rock or that mountain or that formation. I just think it's not quite right." Maybe that's something that helps you, maybe it doesn't. Cultural change is the real solution.

I feel that the journey of finding something valuable in yourself and being able to express it is worthwhile and helps contribute to finding your authority as a witch, and makes you stronger in your practice.

A Bee Blessing Spell.

This one is a very simple practice. You can just do this whenever you see a bee or other pollinator. You can say something like, "Survive and thrive." It’s great if it’s something very easy. If it’s too elaborate, you won’t do it. If you garden, you can plant things that bees like, and there's a lot of information online with a very simple search about plants that attract bees. I also think of bees and pollinators as messengers that bring info and spread info magically.

Green Witch Summer Tea

And I want to end this blog with a little herb magic by sharing my favorite summer iced tea. It’s mint for clarity, hibiscus for calling on summer's passion and fire, and honey for the sweetness of this season. As I add each of these ingredients, I speak those specific properties to call them forth from the herbs and thank each herb. I also like to thank the bees for creating the honey with its ability to bring sweetness and ease.  

Summer Thoughts

We live in times that very much need our attention, our witchcraft, and everything we can bring to the table. Amidst all of that, I hope that each of you can have some measure of sweetness and ease during the summer months.

Colette Gardiner
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