Litha with the Gaia Temple 2024

Join us on the 22nd of December for a Solstice celebration of the abundance of summer.

The Goddess represents the power and force of the light of the sun. At Summer Solstice (or Litha) we will come together in celebration. We celebrate summer, passion and success. A time for expansion and gratitude, to experience her radiance shine forth from us and share it in the world.

‘…as Light reaches Her peak, our closest contact with the Sun, She opens completely, and the seed of darkness [to come] is born.’ – Glenys Livingston

Litha is Kangaroo Apple Season in south-eastern Australia, when goannas are active, Bundjil the wedge-tailed eagle is breading and the Cherry Ballart and Kangaroo Apple are fruiting. The weather is changeable and thundery.

Come to share a Litha ritual followed by a pot-luck meal.
This year in the ritual we are blessed to have Sue Gee, folk singer-songwriter to sing for us about the season.

Details:

DATE: Sunday December 22, 2024 

TIME:  6:00pm for 6.30pm start

WHERE:  the Gaia Temple pop-up, Essendon Terrace, 262 Pascoe Vale Road Essendon.

COST: This is a donation-based ritual, pay what you can afford.

A No Woman Left Behind ticket supports another woman to come to a ticketed event in the future. 

BRING: A plate of food to share for a pot-luck dinner afterwards.

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The Gaia Temple acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin nation as the traditional owners of the land that this event takes place on and recognise that this land was stolen by force. We stand in solidarity with the continued struggle for sovereignty of all First Nations People.

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