It is the moment when the sun reaches the point of maximum declination with respect to the Earth, when it touches the highest point with respect to the horizon and is visible for several hours from our hemisphere. That moment of “maximum height” will be touched this year at 05:31 on 21 June, in the “Summer Solstice”. From that moment the sun will rise every day a little later and set a little earlier, but the day before the Solstice, on June 20, it will be the one with the most hours of daylight in the year, over fifteen in our latitudes, always light beyond the Arctic Circle.
This is the night in which to thank the sun that gives life and to find an alliance with Mother Earth, a night in which it is nice to be in silence in nature, perhaps with some fireflies, and feel part of it.
A night of rituals since the dawn of history, who with the advent of Catholicism joined the celebration of St. John Baptist, born according to his hagiography on June 24, the holy ascetic, late fruit of the union between Elizabeth and Zechariah, who leapt into his mother’s womb to honor the conception of Christ. It was he, dressed in camel skin, who recognized Jesus as the beloved son and baptized him in the waters of the Jordan.
Each of us is also given the faculty of premonition on the night before the saint’s feast, on June 23. By lighting a purifying and propitiatory fire, drinking the dew of the fields, collecting “A bunch of San Giovanni” (made of flowers and herbs, such as hypericum, lavender, mugwort, mallow, rue, mint, rosemary and sage) and following divination practices to peek into one’s future. Because the night of Mid summer it is the one in which anything can happen, in which the dream casts a glance on what will be, it is the night of witches and demons, but also of good that wins over evil, of the light that conquers the occult forces of nature and drives away the evil eye.
In the gallery above you will find 6 well-established traditional rites of our most ancient, peasant and pagan culture. For those looking for love, those who want to propitiate themselves with luck, those who want to live a night in close contact with nature and dreams.
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