Summer Solstice.Scientifically, it is the day when the sun reaches its northermost point on the earth, the Tropic of Cancer. The "sol" part of the word refers to the sun, and "stice" means "standing," because the sun briefly appears to "stands still," changing from a northward journey to a southward direction again. Of course, it is the earth doing the moving that causes this phenomenon, not the sun, but we humans often tend to describe things from our limited perspective.
Midsummer's Day.
Traditionally, it is the day when the ancient peoples celebrated the midpoint of the "hot" season on the calendar. It marked the time when many herbs, beneficial to healing as well as cooking, came into their prime and romps were made through the woods and fields to collect them. It marked the time when wild berries and fresh vegetables were plentiful. It marked the time when the fae (known in various cultures as sidhe, faeries, or "little people") most prominently flitted about, mostly by night, weaving their magic and entrapping the unwary human with their power and wonder.
If you believe in angels, then don't laugh at the notion of faeries for they are likely cousins, cut of the same cloth.
If you don't believe in angels, then surely you will at least concede the fey quality that some of us humans have — those of us who dance to the beat of our own drummers... those of us who celebrate the wild, untamed aspects of ourselves... those of us who immerse ourselves into Life with reckless abandon... those of us humans who have those fey qualities can be your faeries.
And if you look closely, and at the right time, us faeries will be drumming and dancing this weekend under that beautiful, wild, untamed Mother Moon.
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