Summer Solstice 2025; how to honor the solar power of the longest day
Welcome, my sun-worshipping comrades, to the summer solstice.This day of days marks the point when our regal death star is at its furthest point from the equator, delivering unto us the longest span of sunshine and the briefest night we’ll see all year.(The opposite holds for the Southern Hemisphere, where June brings with it the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.)This year, the summer solstice arrives on Jun 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.mAll hail as daylight edges out darkness, the world blooms, pollen drifts, and we look forward to warmth and welcome the onset of summer and the beginning of Cancer season.Read on to find what the summer solstice means for you.Solstice is a marriage of the Latin words for “sun” and “to stand still,” and this is what appears to happen during a solstice from our vantage on Earth.Equinoxes and solstices remind us that we stand within, not apart from, nature; these celestial points coincide with cardinal zodiac signs and the shifting of seasons.When a solstice arrives, the sun reaches its highest or lowest point relative to our celestial equator, the imaginary band that mirrors our actual equator.
Summer’s pale, wind-burned, stew-fed, pine-scented sister, the winter solstice, coincides with the longest night and shortest day of the year.Between the two, we observe the spring and autumn equinoxes, wherein sunlight and night are evenly distributed.In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice announces the arrival of the warmest months of the year.
At this point in time, the Sun seems to stand still at the northernmost point of the equator, also known as the Tropic of Cancer.After this high helio holiday, the Sun will slowly start its journey south once again.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice always falls on June 20, 21 or 22.Marching on, as time is inclined to do, our hours of daylight will slowly wane.Astrology 101: Your guide to the starsOur ancient ancestors lived with and by the rhythms of ...