Midsummer

The festival is primarily a new Celtic fire festival, Midsummer representing the center of summer, and also the shortening from the days on their own gradual goal to winter months. Midsummer is typically celebrated about either the 23rd or perhaps 24th regarding June, although the longest day time actually falls on the 21st of June. The importance of the afternoon to our ancestors can be followed back many thousands of a long time, and many gemstone circles and also other ancient monuments tend to be aligned to the sunrise on Midsummer's Day. By far the most famous position is that at Stonehenge, where the sun rises over the heel natural stone, framed by the giant trilithons upon Midsummer morning.