Midsummer

The event is primarily a new Celtic fire festival, midsummer representing the middle of summer, and the shortening in the days on the gradual drive to winter season. Midsummer is traditionally celebrated on either the particular 23rd or perhaps 24th of June, although the longest evening actually comes on the Twenty first of June. The importance of the morning to our forefathers can be tracked back many thousands of years, and many rock circles along with other ancient monuments tend to be aligned on the sunrise about Midsummer's Day. Probably the most famous alignment is that at Stonehenge, where the sunshine rises within the heel gemstone, framed with the giant trilithons upon Midsummer morning.