Summer Solstice

[Olly]

It's the summer solstice tomorrow. Is anyone doing anything for it?

My family have always acknowledged the sun when it's closest to us by undertaking a variety of pagan rituals for the craic. It always finishes around midnight at a graveyard of a relative where we mockingly try to raise him from the dead by singing songs from the Beegees or Abba whilst dancing around the grave. Sometimes it goes too far and the drunkest ones start digging but it's usually quashed before the unthinkable appears.

Are there are festivals on tomorrow to celebrate it?

[thejuice]

http://www.loughgur.com/summer-solstice-fest-2012/

http://bodyandsoul.ie/

http://www.taracelebrations.org/

www.burningoakfest.com/

and there's probably more.

Its quite interesting to read about it. All across western Europe people would light bonfires on this night. It was later renamed the feast of Saint John by the church.

Sadly not much seems to be happening over here in England unless you're in Wiltshire or Cornwall.

[ardchieftain]

I will be marking the event like i always do. It is important to keep the old traditions alive.