(Festival of the Faerie Folk – Feast Day of the Fae)
Also known as the Summer Solstice or Festival of the Faerie Folk

As the sun reaches its zenith, the world glows with fullness and fire. Là Fhèill Sheathan, the Feast Day of Sheathan, honors this high tide of light—a moment poised between growth and the first whisper of decline.

We call this Là nan Sìthichean, the Day of the Fae. It is a time of enchantment and revelry, when the veil thins not with sorrow, but with celebration. The Sìthichean—the Faerie Folk—walk more freely on this day, and we honor their presence with offerings, dance, and song.

We mark this solstice with:

• Gathering of herbs at dawn, said to be most potent on this day
• Bonfires, leaping for luck and fertility
• Wreaths and garlands of midsummer flowers, offered to the land
• Feasts from the season’s abundance, shared with kin and kinfolk of spirit
• Rituals of mirth and magic, danced beneath the longest day’s sky

Though the sun stands highest, we know that it now begins its long descent. In this moment of brightness, we give thanks—and make merry with wild hearts. The Earth is in bloom, the spirits are abroad, and for a breath of time, we are all kin beneath the faerie sun.