Summer Solstice Celebrations – Midsummer In The Celtic Lands

When Christianity came to Great Britain, the focus of the midsummer celebrations became the feast of St John the Baptist lying on the 24th of June. Most saint’s days mark the anniversary of their deaths, fairly over and over again as martyrs, excluding unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, fairly suitable as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and new early period, not bereavement and endings. Inside some parts of Britain, the customary Midsummer Bonfires are immobile lit. The Old Cornwall Society revived the custom in the premature 20th century and bonfires are currently lit all year lying on a few of the Cornish hills. Within Penzance, a weeklong festival called ‘Golowan’ starts on the Friday adjoining to St John’s Day and culminates in Mazey Day when bonfires are lit and fireworks light up and about the skies. Within the Scottish Borders, the town of Peebles holds a Beltane Week, and in Wales a folk-dancing festival is held in Cardiff on the feast of St John.

So what are you going to accomplish to celebrate the longest daytime of the year? Build a bonfire and allow rancid a quantity of fireworks to celebrate the life-giving affection of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to make needs, cast spells and have your future divined. Just shut your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand being before, with hundreds of bonfires lighting out of bed the summer sky as of the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. So enjoy, as the Summer Solstice is unmoving a day intended for feasting, dancing and celebrations.
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