Celebrate summer solstice today

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Celebrate summer solstice today

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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.

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Fantastic Doc !!! It's truly wonderful :dance:

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As a proper Englishman I reserve the right to sit here in my shorts moaning about it being too bleedin' hot.
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Try doing physical work outdoors in 30 deg C. Sweaty is an understatement. On Monday I hosed myself done on several occasions with the hosepipe.
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It's Wednesday. Yesterday was Tuesday and tomorrow is Thursday. It's a simple astronomical situation.... what's to celebrate exactly?
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So why do we celebrate the winter solstice and call it Christmas, and please don't tell me Jesus was born then as it is just bullshit. The nearest people can prove is he was born in the summer so better to do it now. BUT THE TRUTH IS the winter pagan ceremony was far more ingrained in society and early Christians could not get rid of it and it passed across all European Pagan and tribal beliefs, so they simply hi-jacked it, and many of our traditions for the day are still pagan. Sooo why shouldn't we at least acknowledge something from our past that was celebrated for longer than Christianity has existed.

I like to recognise both equinoxes as well as both solstices. It is the circle of the year passing from yin to yang.

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Spot On - lets celebrate - I will with Cider.
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I've just celebrated with a big hunk of cool melon and a bottle of Old Speckled Hen. And it's still too bleedin' hot. :lol:
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December 21st to 31st, agriculturally speaking, there's not much to do. So it makes sense to use this period to sit around indoors drinking and debauching. June 21st, there's more to do. Even if it's just doing outdoors summer activities.

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Christian or Pagan.... whatever. Jesus was born in a Cleethorpes boarding house some 2017 years ago? My question still stands... what's to celebrate? So this is the longest daylight and the winter solstice is the shortest, and the spring / vernal equinox is same daylight as dark. Yin and Yang is I feel immaterial here. It's merely the balance of an planetary orbit around a star.
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