midsummer

[Silvia Dewitt]

The festival is primarily the Celtic fire celebration, midsummer representing the centre of summer, and the shortening with the days on his or her gradual drive to winter months. Midsummer is typically celebrated about either the 23rd or 24th regarding June, although the longest evening actually comes on the Twenty first of July. The importance of the afternoon to our ancestors and forefathers can be traced back plenty of a long time, and many stone circles and also other ancient monuments are usually aligned to the sunrise on Midsummer's Day. Probably the most famous place is that in Stonehenge, where the sunlight rises over the heel natural stone, framed from the giant trilithons upon Midsummer morning.