Celebrate summer solstice today

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Here we are, we have arrived at the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Earth Goddess is now full and pregnant with Child (new life), and the Sun God is at the height of His virility. This is the peak of the Solar year and the Sun is at the height of its life-giving power. The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfilment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.

All around us is the birth of new life, the birds are fledging, the insects are flying, the flowers are in all their glory, the trees are in new leaf. Nature is doing her job inspite of us.

Celebrate Litha.

[ed]

Here we are, we have arrived at the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Earth Goddess is now full and pregnant with Child (new life), and the Sun God is at the height of His virility. This is the peak of the Solar year and the Sun is at the height of its life-giving power. The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfilment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.

All around us is the birth of new life, the birds are fledging, the insects are flying, the flowers are in all their glory, the trees are in new leaf. Nature is doing her job inspite of us.

Celebrate Litha.

I've had this thought before but never voiced it.....what about the antipodes?

when you say 'the earth' do you mean the northern hemisphere?

[andrew Ivimey]

Good point Ed.

We could wish for a little less sun sometimes too.

[Daniel Quinn]

Are you vying for curmudgeon of the year ?

[ed]

Are you vying for curmudgeon of the year ?

what!, and go up against you!...

believe me you've got the wrong fella.

[Nick]

The summer solstice (or estival solstice), also known as midsummer, occurs when a planet's rotational axis, or geographic pole on either its northern or its southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star that it orbits. On the summer solstice, Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23.44°. (Likewise, the Sun's declination from the celestial equator is +23.44° in the Northern Sky and −23.44° in the Southern Sky.) This happens twice each year (once in each hemisphere), when the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the north or south pole.

The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's summer. This is the northern solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the southern solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs some time between June 20 and June 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and between December 20 and December 23 each year in the Southern Hemisphere. The same dates in the opposite hemisphere are referred to as the winter solstice.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Ancient pagan ceremonies were from people who didn't even know the world was round. You also forget the tropics they have it all year. S American, C American pagan beliefs though similar see the sun as a vengeful God that tries to hurt the earth, due to how hot and the propensity for desert and drought. Ancient people just trying to explain what they see and live through. Our ones just reflect our environment. The one I am referring to is Celtic, but the Germanic One has great similarities but differences. They are the two traditions we inherited. We also had the Roman one imposed on us for a while.

Not religion, just simple people trying to explain their lives, and yet they probably hold more truth and less bullshit than the modern replacements.

[andrew Ivimey]

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What is point...... zzzzzz zzzzzzzz