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In the northern hemisphere, the 2023 summer solstice begins on Wednesday, June 21. The summer solstice is also the longest day of the year — and, if you look carefully, you can almost tell.
In folk tradition, it was revered as the day of the summer solstice [1] [2] and was originally celebrated on the shortest night of the year, which is on 21-22 [3] [4] or 23-24 [2] of June in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria (where it is called Enyovden), and modern Ukraine (since 2023), [5].
The summer solstice welcomes the first official day of summer. Find out about the science of the solstice and well as its pagan roots and celebrations of fertility.
Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year. The name "midsummer" mainly refers to summer solstice festivals of European origin. These cultures traditionally regard it as the middle of summer, with the season beginning on May ...
Come the winter solstice the Oak King in turn vanquishes the Holly King. [81]: 137 After the spring equinox the sun begins to wax again and the Holly King slowly regains his strength until he once again defeats the Oak King at the summer solstice. The two are ultimately seen as essential parts of a whole, light and dark aspects of the male God ...
The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...
Litha, also known as Midsummer, is a pagan festival celebrated during the summer solstice, typically around June 21st in the Northern Hemisphere. The term "Litha" is believed to derive from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "summer." [1]
Bealtaine (anglicised as 'Beltane') (/ ˈ b ɛ l. t eɪ n /; Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲal̪ˠt̪ˠəʲnə], approximately / ˈ b (j) ɒ l t ɪ n ə / B(Y)OL-tin-ə) [5] [6] is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on 1 May, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice.