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Summer Solstice and Midsummer are this coming week! Here's a little fairy lore and funn stuff!

http://www.examiner.com/fairie…..-midsummer

Namaste

Kala

Hi Jolly Rancher!

How are you?

Thank you for reading my article.

That question was one that I had too but could not find a satisfactory answer for. Here's what I think.

As I said in the article, Midsummer used to fall on the same day as the solstice. The solstice is the reason that there is a Midsummer holiday, it was a holiday to celebrate the summer solstice.

We spent over a week researching both online and in the university library. Every source I found really ended up melding summer solstice with Midsummer. This is because they were originally, for centuries the same holiday. And they are supposed to be the same holiday.

When the switch was made from the Julian calendar to the current Gregorian calender the holiday was seperated from the solstice.

Since the solstice is an actual astronomical event, the date changes from the 21st to the 22nd from year to year depending on when the actual astronomical event of the longest day of the year happens.

Midsummer, or St. John's Day (as Christians call it) is a set date of June 24th. I would think that the day that the veil is thinnest would be on the say of the solstice.

This is just my way os thinking about it, others may know a lot more and could tell us more. But I say celebrate the entire festival from the 21st through the 24th.

I'm sorry that my articles are not more detailed. Examiner has editorial rules that state that articel length is supposed to be between 200 and 400 words. I wish they could be longer but I don't want to get in to trouble.

I know that this is not a definitive answer but I hope it helps bring a little more clarity.

Namaste

Kala

Hamsakala said:

Hi Jolly Rancher!

How are you?

Thank you for reading my article.

That question was one that I had too but could not find a satisfactory answer for. Here's what I think.

As I said in the article, Midsummer used to fall on the same day as the solstice. The solstice is the reason that there is a Midsummer holiday, it was a holiday to celebrate the summer solstice.

We spent over a week researching both online and in the university library. Every source I found really ended up melding summer solstice with Midsummer. This is because they were originally, for centuries the same holiday. And they are supposed to be the same holiday.

When the switch was made from the Julian calendar to the current Gregorian calender the holiday was seperated from the solstice.

Since the solstice is an actual astronomical event, the date changes from the 21st to the 22nd from year to year depending on when the actual astronomical event of the longest day of the year happens.

Midsummer, or St. John's Day (as Christians call it) is a set date of June 24th. I would think that the day that the veil is thinnest would be on the say of the solstice.

This is just my way os thinking about it, others may know a lot more and could tell us more. But I say celebrate the entire festival from the 21st through the 24th.

I'm sorry that my articles are not more detailed. Examiner has editorial rules that state that articel length is supposed to be between 200 and 400 words. I wish they could be longer but I don't want to get in to trouble.

I know that this is not a definitive answer but I hope it helps bring a little more clarity.

Namaste

Kala

No need to apologize, this is a lot more information than I was aware of last year. This is great, even more time to celebrate and hope for some sort of encounter. Thanks again :)

Hi Jolly Rancher,

Thank you so much for supporting my column. It's actually not a blog but an online newspaper column. That's why I have to follow editorial guidelines given to me by the online newspaper I write for called Examiner.com.

I wish I could write longer, more detailed articles. I love discussing my articles here with you though. It's really fun!

Happy Midsummer!

Namaste

Kala