Midsummer

The festivity is primarily a Celtic fire celebration, midsummer representing the middle of summer, and the shortening with the days on his or her gradual drive to winter months. Midsummer is customarily celebrated about either the particular 23rd or even 24th involving June, although the longest day time actually falls on the Twenty first of Summer. The importance of the day to our forebears can be tracked back multitudes of a long time, and many gemstone circles and also other ancient monuments are usually aligned to the sunrise on Midsummer's Day. Probably the most famous alignment is that with Stonehenge, where the sun's rays rises over the heel natural stone, framed by the giant trilithons in Midsummer morning.