Summer solstice is the day of programming the future. Summer solstice - day of future programming The longest day in June
In order to celebrate the day of the solar solstice, and therefore the astronomical summer itself, you need to read this article carefully. In it we tried to collect the maximum number of necessary rituals and traditions with which since ancient times we met the longest daylight hours. For Russians, this day will come at 6:24 Moscow time on June 22.
The ritual for properly celebrating the summer solstice is quite simple. To do this, you need to wake up before dawn, which, as we have already said, will come at 6:24 Moscow time. You should also prepare your home by opening all the windows to the morning sun to let in its first rays.
As soon as the entire solar disk appears over the horizon, you need to stand at the open window on the eastern side with open arms and greet it with gentle words.
Magic, customs, fortune telling and rituals
Among the Slavs, the summer solstice was considered the most powerful day of the year, when the gods fulfill any desire, and plants are endowed with the power to cure any disease. On this day, healers and herbalists stocked up on medicinal herbs for the entire next year.
In popular beliefs, of all plants, fern occupied a special place. It was believed that it was on this day, at the minutes of the solstice, that the fern blossoms and blossoms - and everyone who can pick a fern flower will be endowed with powerful power.
But, as legends say, finding a fern flower is extremely difficult and dangerous, because it is reliably guarded by the spirits of the forest, who can get daredevils lost in the wilds and take away the power of speech. So people went looking for a magical flower on Kupala night not only because of it. magical properties, but also to test courage.
In addition to herbs, the elements of fire and water also had special powers on the day of the solstice. It was believed that bathing on the day of Semiyaryla heals a person from illnesses and charges him with the energy of the Sun. According to legend, magical power begins to increase after 11 pm on the eve of Kupala Night, reaches its peak at the solstice and lasts until noon on June 22.
In order to direct the magical power of magical time for their own benefit, our ancestors performed special rituals. They collected spicy herbs: mint, angelica, thyme - slightly dried them at sunset, and then, at midnight, lit fires, one by one threw the herbs into the fire and told fortunes.
If the smoke spread along the ground, in the near future a person would face the threat of illness and failure; if it rose upward, happiness and health awaited him. Then they covered the fire with birch branches to protect themselves from demons, and made a sacrifice to the goddess Dana - they lowered flowers into the water and, stripping naked, jumped into the river.
The summer solstice was considered the most successful day for a wedding. Family unions that were concluded on this day turned out to be the strongest and most faithful. Children in such families grew up healthy and beautiful.
Modern astrologers confirm this popular belief - after all, on the night of June 21-22, the Sun goes into zodiac sign Cancer, which symbolizes family, continuation of the family and the preservation of traditions.
Many customs and traditions of the Slavic holiday Kupala have something in common with the Christian day of the Holy Trinity. So, on this holiday, it was customary for the Slavs to decorate their house with birch branches and medicinal herbs - St. John's wort, elecampane, Ivan da Marya. Our ancestors believed that these plants attracted good spirits to the house.
On the night of the summer solstice, young boys and girls walked into the forest, lit fires and jumped over them. This ritual was believed to protect against disease, hunger and war. Cooled coals were collected and stored all year, using them to heal ulcers and wounds.
Signs
The water collected on the morning of June 21 is considered healing. They collected water from wells and springs, washed themselves with it that same day and drank it.
The girl who danced all night around nine bonfires on Ivan Kupala will certainly get married this year.
If on the day of the solstice you hang a bouquet of Ivan da Marya at the entrance to the house, then all sorrows and misfortunes will bypass the house.
Rain on the Solstice holiday was considered a bad omen. They thought that the gods were angry and did not allow them to light fires and perform rituals for well-being.
To prevent evil spirits from entering the house on Kupala night, it is necessary to place or stick a prickly or stinging plant - nettles, branches of rose hips, raspberries, blackberries, etc. - into the door and window jambs, as well as under the threshold.
Heavy dew on the morning of June 21 promised a rich harvest. It was collected and given to sick children for a year.
The clear starry sky on Ivan Kupala foretells a warm but rainy autumn.
On the evening of Midsummer's Day, we always went to the bathhouse and steamed ourselves with herbal brooms collected that day.
After such steaming, even seriously ill people were cured.
Those whose birthday falls on the summer solstice, June 21 or 22, have magical powers and can heal people.
If on Kupala night some man accidentally or deliberately throws water on you, you and he should be husband and wife.
A couple in love must jump over the Kupala bonfire hand in hand on the summer solstice, then they will definitely live a long, happy life together.
Embers from Kupala bonfires are collected and laid out around the house, in the garden, and placed on the roofs. It is believed that they protect the household from pests, thieves and fires.
Summer solstice fortune telling
The summer solstice is celebrated annually on June 22. On the night of June 21-22, we can experience the longest day and shortest night of the year. Since ancient times, this day was considered magical and had great significance for people.
On the day of the summer solstice, it is customary to tell fortunes, perform customs and rituals.
Fortune telling on the summer solstice
They told fortunes on this day exclusively on the street. Girls and young people found out their fate and told their fortunes about love. The most common fortune telling was fortune telling at the stake. Guys and girls, holding hands, jumped over the fire.
If the hands separate during the jump, the couple will not be together.
If hands are together during a jump, marriage awaits the newlyweds.
If sparks fly, passionate love awaits.
If the fire goes out during the jump, the couple should not be together.
They told fortunes at the stake and alone. Whoever jumps the highest over the fire will be happy this year. Anyone who touches the flame of a fire with his foot or hand will suffer all year long.
Modern magic and fortune telling
For those who work on self-development, this day is very important; it is best suited for programming the future. On the summer solstice, solar energy intensifies and the potential for magic, ritual and meditation increases dramatically.
This is one of the most powerful days of the year, when it is possible to “dream” your happiness and “program” yourself for positivity and joy, it conveys this. Therefore, the minimum program for this day is to set yourself up for a positive wave from the very morning and not let it go until sunset.
So, what opportunities does this day present to us, and what can we do to improve our well-being, personal life, career, and health? Fortune telling on the day and night of the summer solstice is much more accurate. Fortune telling with Runes and Tarot cards are especially suitable.
On the eve of the summer solstice, love magic spells work much better. Collect seven different herbs and flowers and sew them into an amulet. Flowers of calendula, lavender, rosemary, sunflower, fern, verbena, oak and rowan have the ability to attract love on this day. The traditional magical colors of the day are yellow and red.
This day is good for starting healing work, because the Sun is an esoteric healer. It is on this day that herbs for magic should be collected, especially those used for solar magic, fire magic and healing.
Wormwood, burdock, St. John's wort, mistletoe, dill, parsley, green onions, thyme, honeysuckle, nettle, collected on this day, have powerful healing powers. For example, nettle, burdock and dill are used at home to protect against evil.
On the day of the summer solstice, you can perform a ritual to protect your home. For this you will need: a rowan branch, red cloth and red threads. You can also use stones that have protective properties, for example, agate or turquoise, protective herbs: St. John's wort, honeysuckle, anise. Place it all in a red cloth, wrap it up and tie it with red thread.
In this case, you need to say the following words:
“As a rowan tree is tied in red, so protection surrounds my home”
Each time you say these words, add one knot to the red thread. Place your protective amulet in any safe place in or near your home. The same amulet can be made to protect your car.
IN modern world The solstices have lost the importance they had for people in the past and do not attract much attention today. The only people who really follow this are farmers and some modern pagans for whom these days are important.
Solstice is one of the two days of the year when the Sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator, i.e. when the height of the star above the horizon at noon is minimum or maximum. This results in the longest day and shortest night (summer solstice) in one hemisphere of the Earth and the shortest day and longest night (winter solstice) in the other.
Longest day of the year
The day of the summer solstice is the day of the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere of the Earth and the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere, that is, if the inhabitants of the Northern part of the Earth from this moment are at the beginning of astronomical summer, then for the inhabitants of the Southern hemisphere astronomical winter will begin in the same period of time.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs on June 20, 21, or 22. In the southern hemisphere, the winter solstice falls on these dates. Due to various inequalities in the movement of the Earth, the solstices fluctuate by 1-2 days.
In 2017, astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere will begin on June 21 at 7.34 am Moscow time.
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On the day of the summer solstice at the latitude of Moscow, the Sun rises above the horizon to a height of more than 57 degrees, and in territories located above a latitude of 66.5 degrees (the Arctic Circle), it does not set beyond the horizon at all, and the day lasts around the clock. At the North Pole of the Earth, the Sun moves across the sky at the same height around the clock. It is polar night at the South Pole at this time.
During several adjacent days of the solstice, the midday heights of the Sun in the sky are almost unchanged; This is where the name of the solstice comes from. After the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the day begins to wane, and the night gradually begins to increase. In the southern hemisphere it is the other way around. For thousands of years, the summer solstice was of great importance to our ancient ancestors, who obeyed the cycles of nature.
How the Slavs celebrated the solstice
In the old days, even before the advent of Christianity, the holiday of Kupala, dedicated to the ancient pagan god Kupala, was timed to coincide with the summer solstice.
On this day and night, they wove wreaths, drank surya (a honey drink), jumped over fires, made sacrifices to water and fire, collected medicinal herbs, performed rituals calling for the harvest, and “purifying the soul and body” ablutions in rivers, lakes and streams. The central place among the vegetation that night was occupied by ferns. It was believed that a fern flower, blooming only for a moment at midnight, would accurately indicate where the treasure was buried.
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People said: “At Kupala there is sun for the winter, and summer for the heat,” “Whoever does not go to the Bath will be a tree stump, and whoever goes to the Bath will be a white birch.”
The holiday has many names. Depending on the location and time, it was called Kupala, Kres (Old Russian), Ivan the kind, loving, Ivan-Kupala, Ivan the Herbalist, Yarilin's day (in the Yaroslavl and Tver provinces), Sontsekres (Ukrainian), Spirits-day (Bulgarian) and etc. In Ukraine it is also known as Kupailo, in Belarus - Kupala.
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Participants of the Novgorod Kupala festival in Veliky Novgorod
With the adoption of Christianity, people did not reject the holiday of Kupala, but, on the contrary, timed this day to coincide with the day of John the Baptist, which, according to the old style, falls on June 24. But according to the new calendar style, the day of John the Baptist falls on July 7th. Today, the celebration does not correspond to the astronomical solar equinox.
How the solstice is celebrated in the West
The celebration of the summer solstice was present in all ancient pagan systems; many peoples still celebrate it to this day, some in its original form and some in a simplified form, leaving only the basic rituals and transforming the ancient rituals of their ancestors into a vibrant holiday.
Summer solstice among all Celtic peoples it was considered the time of fairies, elves and other supernatural beings. Among the Celtic peoples of Britain, the holiday was called Litha and was closely associated with the pagan cult of the sun.
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The Scandinavian and Baltic peoples celebrated the day and night of the summer solstice magnificently. Subsequently, these holidays in different countries received the name Midsummer's Day or Midsummer's Night (from the national version of the name Ivan).
In Latvia, the holiday is called Ligo or Jan's Day, it has state status and is celebrated on June 23 and 24, which are official holidays. In Estonia it is also called Jan's Day, in Lithuania - Jonines or Rasos (dew festival). In both countries it is celebrated on June 24 and is a public holiday and day off.
In Norway, the holiday named after John the Baptist is called Jonsok ("Midsummer's Night"). Another name for the holiday is Jonsvaka (Jonsvoko) - formed from the name Johan and the verb vake - “to stay awake”. It was believed that on Midsummer night one should not sleep until dawn - not only because one can hear the singing of elves, but above all for the purpose of protection for the whole coming year. Another name for the holiday, more “official”, is Sankthansnatt or Sankthansaften (St. Hans’s Night).
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Sailing yacht from Finland "Svanhild" at the "Days of the Sea" holiday in the Tallinn port of Vanasadam
In Sweden the holiday is called Midsommar. Until 1953, it was celebrated on the same day that the Christian Church celebrated the day of John the Baptist. But now the holiday usually falls on the penultimate Saturday of June, that is, it is usually celebrated from June 20 to 26. In Sweden, the celebration begins the day before, on Friday, which is also a non-working holiday.
In Finland, during pagan times, the holiday was called in honor of the God of Fire - Ukon juhla, but now it is called Juhannus - an outdated form of pronunciation of the name of John the Baptist. Since 1954, Johannus has been celebrated on a Saturday falling between the 20th and 26th of June. Since 1934, this day has been an official holiday - the Day of the National Flag of the country.
Folk signs on the summer solstice
On this day, it is customary to follow signs, this is what people paid attention to.
Bad weather on the summer solstice predicted a crop failure and a poor year. It is believed that if the Sun is hidden behind the clouds, summer will be bad.
If there is a lot of dew in the morning - a rich harvest. This dew was collected and poured into one vessel; it was considered healing. The water collected in the morning from wells and springs had the same power. They washed themselves with it that same day and drank it.
If there are many stars in the sky, this means mushroom summer.
It is also believed that if you climb over 12 fences on this day, your wish will come true within a year.
And in order to get rid of all diseases, you need to take a steam bath with a broom collected on this particular day.
The material is compiled from open sources.
Solstice is one of the two days of the year when the Sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator, i.e. when the height of the star above the horizon at noon is minimum or maximum. This results in the longest day and shortest night (summer solstice) in one hemisphere of the Earth and the shortest day and longest night (winter solstice) in the other.
Longest day of the year
The day of the summer solstice is the day of the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere of the Earth and the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere, that is, if the inhabitants of the Northern part of the Earth from this moment are at the beginning of astronomical summer, then for the inhabitants of the Southern hemisphere astronomical winter will begin in the same period of time.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs on June 20, 21, or 22. In the southern hemisphere, the winter solstice falls on these dates. Due to various inequalities in the movement of the Earth, the solstices fluctuate by 1-2 days.
In 2017, astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere will begin on June 21 at 7.34 am Moscow time.
Dawn in Moscow
On the day of the summer solstice at the latitude of Moscow, the Sun rises above the horizon to a height of more than 57 degrees, and in territories located above a latitude of 66.5 degrees (the Arctic Circle), it does not set beyond the horizon at all, and the day lasts around the clock. At the North Pole of the Earth, the Sun moves across the sky at the same height around the clock. It is polar night at the South Pole at this time.
During several adjacent days of the solstice, the midday heights of the Sun in the sky are almost unchanged; This is where the name of the solstice comes from. After the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the day begins to wane, and the night gradually begins to increase. In the southern hemisphere it is the other way around. For thousands of years, the summer solstice was of great importance to our ancient ancestors, who obeyed the cycles of nature.
How the Slavs celebrated the solstice
In the old days, even before the advent of Christianity, the holiday of Kupala, dedicated to the ancient pagan god Kupala, was timed to coincide with the summer solstice.
On this day and night, they wove wreaths, drank surya (a honey drink), jumped over fires, made sacrifices to water and fire, collected medicinal herbs, performed rituals calling for the harvest, and “purifying the soul and body” ablutions in rivers, lakes and streams. The central place among the vegetation that night was occupied by ferns. It was believed that a fern flower, blooming only for a moment at midnight, would accurately indicate where the treasure was buried.
People said: “At Kupala - the sun is for the winter, and the summer is for the heat,” “Whoever does not go to the Bath will be a tree stump, and whoever goes to the Bath will be a white birch.”
The holiday has many names. Depending on the location and time, it was called Kupala, Kres (Old Russian), Ivan the kind, loving, Ivan-Kupala, Ivan the Herbalist, Yarilin's day (in the Yaroslavl and Tver provinces), Sontsekres (Ukrainian), Spirits-day (Bulgarian) and etc. In Ukraine it is also known as Kupailo, in Belarus - Kupala.
Participants of the Novgorod Kupala festival in Veliky Novgorod
With the adoption of Christianity, people did not reject the holiday of Kupala, but, on the contrary, timed this day to coincide with the day of John the Baptist, which, according to the old style, falls on June 24. But according to the new calendar style, the day of John the Baptist falls on July 7th. Today, the celebration does not correspond to the astronomical solar equinox.
How the solstice is celebrated in the West
The celebration of the summer solstice was present in all ancient pagan systems; many peoples still celebrate it to this day, some in its original form and some in a simplified form, leaving only the basic rituals and transforming the ancient rituals of their ancestors into a vibrant holiday.
The summer solstice among all Celtic peoples was considered the time of fairies, elves and other supernatural beings. Among the Celtic peoples of Britain, the holiday was called Litha and was closely associated with the pagan cult of the sun.
Summer Solstice Festival
The Scandinavian and Baltic peoples celebrated the day and night of the summer solstice magnificently. Subsequently, these holidays in different countries were called Midsummer's Day or Midsummer's Night (from the national version of the name Ivan).
In Latvia, the holiday is called Ligo or Jan's Day, it has state status and is celebrated on June 23 and 24, which are official holidays. In Estonia it is also called Jan's Day, in Lithuania - Jonines or Rasos (dew festival). In both countries it is celebrated on June 24 and is a public holiday and day off.
In Norway, the holiday named after John the Baptist is called Jonsok ("Midsummer's Night"). Another name for the holiday is Jonsvaka (Jonsvoko) - formed from the name Johan and the verb vake - “to stay awake”. It was believed that on Midsummer night one should not sleep until dawn - not only because one can hear the singing of elves, but above all for the purpose of protection for the whole coming year. Another name for the holiday, more “official”, is Sankthansnatt or Sankthansaften (St. Hans’s Night).
Sailing yacht from Finland "Svanhild" at the "Days of the Sea" holiday in the Tallinn port of Vanasadam
In Sweden the holiday is called Midsommar. Until 1953, it was celebrated on the same day that the Christian Church celebrated the day of John the Baptist. But now the holiday usually falls on the penultimate Saturday of June, that is, it is usually celebrated from June 20 to 26. In Sweden, the celebration begins the day before, on Friday, which is also a non-working holiday.
In Finland, during pagan times, the holiday was called in honor of the God of Fire - Ukon juhla, but now it is called Juhannus - an outdated form of pronunciation of the name of John the Baptist. Since 1954, Johannus has been celebrated on a Saturday falling between the 20th and 26th of June. Since 1934, this day has been an official holiday - the Day of the National Flag of the country.
Solstice - 1 of 2 days a year when the Sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator, i.e. when the height of the Sun above the horizon at noon is minimum or maximum. This results in the longest day and shortest night (summer solstice) in one hemisphere of the Earth and the shortest day and longest night (winter solstice) in the other.
At the time of the summer solstice, the ancient Slavs celebrated Kupala Day (Kupala or Kupala - God of earthly joys). Therefore, even now, many people associate the solstice holiday with pagan rituals of worship of the forces of nature and spirits, in particular, with the worship of the Sun and fortune telling.
Kupala traditions include such rituals as collecting medicinal herbs, lighting fires, bathing or dousing with water, fortune telling, festive treats.
According to Christian tradition, this holiday is celebrated 2 weeks later - Midsummer Day, Ivan Kupala Day (John the Baptist).
Signs for the summer solstice:
If you climb over 12 fences on this day, your wish will come true within a year.
To get rid of all diseases, you need to take a steam bath with a broom collected on this particular day.
Children born on the summer solstice, June 21 or 22, have the evil eye, which means they can cast the evil eye. According to another sign, these people have good health and a happy destiny, as they are under the protection of the sun.
Bad weather on the summer solstice predicts a bad harvest and a poor year.
If the Sun is hidden behind the clouds, summer will be bad.
If there is a lot of dew in the morning - a rich harvest. This dew was collected and poured into one vessel; it was considered healing. The water collected in the morning from wells and springs had the same power. They washed themselves with it that same day and drank it.
If there are many stars in the sky, this means mushroom summer.
Evening will come only after nine o'clock in the evening
Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere of our planet. This means that daylight hours will last longer today than on any other day. In Moscow, for example, the Sun began to rise above the horizon as early as 3:45, and sunset will come only at 21:18. In the Southern Hemisphere, today, on the contrary, should be the shortest and the night the longest
The summer solstice may fall on June 20 (usually in leap years) or June 22, but it occurs most often on June 21. The height to which the Sun will rise above the horizon today will be the maximum in the Northern Hemisphere, and the minimum in the Southern Hemisphere for the entire year. At the same time, for several days before and after June 21, the luminary at noon is practically at the same altitude, although in other periods of the year this indicator changes somewhat more rapidly. That is why the word “solstice” is used to refer to today. In the northern and south poles Earth, today is the middle of the six-month long polar day and polar night, respectively.
Scientists call today the beginning of astronomical summer in Eurasia, North America and much of Africa, as well as astronomical winter in Australia and South America.
In many countries, there are traditions that are in one way or another connected with the onset of the have a long day in the year, even if they rarely coincide with the “astronomically” exact date. In particular, from the evening of June 23 (July 6 according to the new style) and until June 24 (July 7) it is celebrated folk holiday Eastern Slavs Ivan Kupala. In Sweden, Latvia and some other countries, the summer solstice is officially considered a day off.
Starting tomorrow, the day in the Northern Hemisphere will begin to gradually shorten, and in the Southern Hemisphere it will increase. September 22 will mark the vernal equinox, when day and night on the entire Earth will last almost equally (if you do not take into account the influence of atmospheric refraction, due to which the day will still be slightly longer), and December 21 will mark the winter solstice.