The full moon June 2024 promises a celestial treat for skywatchers, featuring an unusually large and colorful display. This phenomenon, known as the “strawberry full moon,” will grace the evening skies on June 21, the day after the summer solstice.

This year’s summer solstice will begin just one day before the full Strawberry Moon on June 21, according to the Almanac, because of this occurrence, June’s full moon phase will be the lowest full moon in years. 

The solstice full moon owes its strangeness to yet another little-known lunar reality. Since the full moon is opposite the sun at midnight, when the sun is lowest down, the full moon is highest up.  

This year, since the full moon and summer solstice align, the sun is at its highest point of the year, and the moon, in contrast, at its lowest. The result will be a huge viewing of a full moon because of the moon illusion. 

If you stood at the Sphinx on the summer solstice and gaze toward the two pyramids, you’d see the sun set exactly between them.

The strawberry moon is the most colorful of the year because it takes a low, shallow path across the sky.

Other names for June’s full moon are the mead or honey moon, and the rose moon.

With the full moon taking place in Capricorn on June 21, it’s a perfect time to set boundaries in your relationships.

With the full moon in Capricorn happening on June 21, we have to look back six months to what was stirring in our world and see how we interacted with those influences.

Governed by Saturn, Capricorn approaches emotions more clinically and rationally. 

Capricorn teaches us how to work and use the world around us.

Litha or Midsummer is a time of bonfires, mugwort, mythical beings, nights and days of mischief and love. The veil is thin. The Celts, the Norse and the Slavs believed that there were three ‘spirit nights’ in the year when magic ran amok and the Otherworld was near. The first was Halloween, the second was May Eve and the third was Midsummer Eve. 

All sorts of enchantments are in the air now and Spirits and Fairies abound. 

Midsummer or Litha, is one of the most powerful days of the year to perform spells and rituals, especially those concerning health, love, passion, protection, and purification.

Now is also a great time to use the peak energy of the Sun to burn away old, negative patterns that have held us back

Herbs commonly associated with Litha include rose, St. John’s wort, mugwort, plantain, lambs cress, nettle, betony, chamomile, thyme, fennel, sage, mints, Calendula, elderflower, meadowsweet, and verbena.

Hawthorn – Magical uses include chastity, fertility, fairy magic and rebirth.  Success in career, work, and employment. Use it to work with the fae and for hope, protection and happiness. Element Fire. 

It is believed to enhance intuition, psychic abilities, and spiritual clarity, making it a favored herb for divination and meditation. Hawthorn is also associated with the heart chakra, promoting emotional healing.

Magickal Uses: Hawthorn is valued in magickal traditions for its protective and transformative energies. It is often used in spells or rituals aimed at warding off negative influences, attracting love and fostering spiritual growth.

Blessed Litha