Midsummer

The festival is primarily a new Celtic fire festivity, midsummer representing the centre of summer, and also the shortening with the days on the gradual goal to winter season. Midsummer is usually celebrated about either the particular 23rd or even 24th regarding June, even though the longest day time actually falls on the Twenty first of 06. The importance of the afternoon to our ancestors and forefathers can be monitored back thousands of years, and many rock circles and other ancient monuments tend to be aligned towards the sunrise in Midsummer's Day. Probably the most famous positioning is that at Stonehenge, where the sun rises within the heel natural stone, framed by the giant trilithons about Midsummer morning.