Also called Lado, Łada.
Their story
Lada appears in the sources only from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, often as a name called out in the refrains of spring and wedding songs. Later writers built a goddess of love and spring from these songs.
Their day
Friday. In modern practice, she is often honoured on Friday, a day given to goddesses of love.
Best times to give to them
- spring
- weddings
- Kupala at Midsummer
- Fridays
What they like being given
- flower wreaths
- honey and sweet bread
- birch branches
- songs
- mead, or sweet fruit juice
How to honour them
- Weave a flower wreath in spring and place it on your altar or float it on water.
- Sing a song, however simple, in her name.
- Work at harmony in your relationships.
- Decorate your home with birch or spring flowers.
How they can help you
- love and romance
- harmony in marriage
- weddings
- springtime joy
Symbols
- spring flowers
- birch trees
- wreaths
- swans
Scholars debate whether Lada was ever a pagan goddess or a song refrain later taken for one; her worship today is largely modern.