#sumersolstice

Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year, and stands opposite the Winter Solstice in the Wheel of the Year. It is the time when the new life and light that was born at the Winter Solstice is manifest in our lives and in the world. Summer Solstice has been celebrated in practically every culture on Earth, and is a time of joy and celebration of the powers of life. The Sun is at its fullest power, and the darkness of winter is a fading memory. But just at this moment of greatest light, we begin to face death, for now the days begin to shorten and the darkness grows. Solstice literally means "sun stand still", for at the solstices the sun seems to stop on its course before it reverses itself.