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Litha, another way of saying the Summer Solstice, comes on the longest day of the year and is at the opposite side of the year from Yule, the Winter Solstice. This Solar Festival marks the day when the Sun God is at the height of power. It is a time of merriment and magic as noted in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Goddess is now pregnant with the God and it is the time of the quickening. This is Litha 5th Pagan Sabbat in the Wheel of the Year

Lughnasadh marks the time of the first harvest in the calendar year. The corn is ripening in the fields and must be harvested. In the past all grains in Britain were called corn. The God, at the height of his power at Litha, is now weakening, and with the cutting of the corn suffers his first death. This is Lughnasadh The 5th Sabbat in the wheel of the year