Celebrating summer solstice around the world From Sweden's Midsummer to Eastern Europe's Kupala, the summer solstice celebrates the longest day of the year and the romance that comes with it.
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Important holidays for the commune are Thanksgiving and Summer Solstice.
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A boy carries paper flowers at a summer solstice celebration.
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The date isn't just significant for being the summer solstice.
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The Sun enters Cancer, marking the summer solstice, on June 21.
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Summer solstice, Vernal equinox, hurricane season begin, or wildfire season begins?
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And for you seasons geeks -- 9 days 'til the summer solstice!!
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There's more than one way to usher in the summer solstice.
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Tomorrow is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
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A guide to summer solstice , from Stonehenge to the earth&aposs tilt.
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Here's another fun way to visualize the extreme of the summer solstice.
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Cancer season actually starts on or around the summer solstice every year.
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The summer solstice signifies the midpoint between the planting and the harvest.
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Here's another cool way to visualize the extreme of the summer solstice.
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The summer solstice occurs at the Stonehenge in the United Kingdom in 2016.
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The summer season officially kicks off on Thursday, thanks to the summer solstice.
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Thursday marks the start of longer days before the summer solstice in June.
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This occurrence results in a summer solstice for those living north of the equator.
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Revellers welcome in the summer solstice at Stonehenge in southwest Britain on June 21.
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The summer solstice arrives on June 21, Cancer, marking the start of your season!
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World Music Day is an annual celebration that takes place on the summer solstice.
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Astro tidbit: The summer solstice always falls on the first day of Cancer season.
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During the summer solstice, the sunrise there is perfectly framed by its stone slabs.
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And the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy in Yonkers celebrated the summer solstice on June 19.
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We are at the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.
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While the summer solstice is the longest day of the year, it's not the hottest While the Northern Hemisphere may receive a lot of extra sunlight on the summer solstice, that doesn't mean it makes it the hottest day of the year.
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Ahead, discover how you can make the summer solstice the sexiest day of the year.
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Everything else being equal, therefore, the summer solstice is arguably the happiest day on Earth.
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In astrology, Cancer season begins on June 21, the same day as the summer solstice.
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The book's publication coincides with the Thursday's summer solstice , which is closely associated with Stonehenge.
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This year, June 21 marks the summer solstice and the longest day of the year.
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The film is clearly supposed to be set in late June, during the summer solstice.
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The most recent strawberry moon happened on June 20 and coincided with the summer solstice.
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It's not quite the same as when druids gather at Stonehenge for the summer solstice.
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Eastern Time marks the summer solstice, the scientific start to summer for half the world.
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Also on June 21, the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy in Yonkers held a summer solstice party.
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They are getting married on June 21st, in Reykjavík, a day after the summer solstice.
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Stonehenge is positioned in such a way as to mark the arrival of the summer solstice.
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Yesterday was the summer solstice and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
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It was a summer solstice celebration; Mr. Harvey sometimes said it also commemorated a romantic breakup.
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Here's everything you need to welcome the summer solstice — and prepare for your best summer yet.
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Right now, as the summer solstice approaches, they are arriving to give birth to their calves.
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The hectic hub of Times Square became a plein-air yoga studio for the summer solstice.
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On the summer solstice each June, the sun sets approximately 32 degrees north of true west.
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Yes, I did a lot of research on fertility rituals, summer solstice, summer fertility rites, paganism.
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Michael Guillen Ph.D.: The summer solstice is the happiest day of the year – But not for me.
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Saturn, where one year lasts for 30 Earth years, will approach its summer solstice in May 2017.
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MOST Finns celebrate the summer solstice with a long night of sweaty sauna sessions and binge-drinking.
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If you live north of the equator, you just lived through the summer solstice on June 21.
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The energy will continue to shift once the Sun enters Cancer on June 21—the summer solstice!
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Death Is Elsewhere was shot at 22am in South Iceland around the time of the summer solstice.
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With food: There's a summer solstice community potluck at Dorothy K. McGowan Memorial Garden in Upper Manhattan.
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It has gotten brighter since and appears to be nearing its expected peak, around the summer solstice.
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The Sun will enter Cancer on June 21, marking the summer solstice and continuing the good vibes.
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Since 1983, Coney Island's Mermaid Parade has taken place on the first Saturday nearest to the Summer Solstice.
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In honor of the summer solstice, the coffee and doughnut chain is giving out Frozen Lemonades for free.
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Bringing anything that's locally in season into your living space can be a tribute to the summer solstice.
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Fairbanks gets about 18 more hours of sunlight during the summer solstice in June than it will today.
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Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the start of the summer season.
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Now you can celebrate the summer solstice yourself without the hassle of traveling all the way to Hårga.
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The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is one of the most sacred holidays for pagans.
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Gemini season is upon us, but soon the summer solstice swoops in with the start of Cancer season.
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The effect is particularly powerful on the summer solstice, when the sun appears to rise between two plinths.
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The summer solstice arrives on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone, kicking off Cancer season!
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Length of daylight – which maxes out on the summer solstice – also triggers many other important animal traits and behaviors.
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We call June 21 the official first day of summer, but it's also referred to as the summer solstice.
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You and I are actually sitting here talking on June 21, which is the day of the summer solstice.
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Belarusians sing and dance on the eve of Ivan Kupala Day, an ancient nightlong celebration marking the summer solstice.
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The summer solstice is considered a day to revel in the abundance of nature and embrace your playful side.
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But as far as our calendrical markers go, the summer solstice today is the official start to the season.
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The first time the man burned was on the summer solstice in 255, on Baker Beach in San Francisco.
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The park opened to the public on June 21 – the summer solstice and the longest day of the year.
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Exciting conversations will take place this morning, Sagittarius, and the Sun enters Cancer late tonight, marking the summer solstice.
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Monday marks the summer solstice, the first solstice of the year before the winter solstice rolls around in December.
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The summer solstice arrives with the Sun entering Cancer on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone.
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It's the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the period when the region is most tilted toward the sun.
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She was one of the 2000 people who accidentally OD'd on acid at the summer solstice party in Canada.
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Here's a graphic from NASA imagining what a summer solstice sunrise might've looked like back when Stonehenge was fully intact: Nowadays, humans still gather to pay homage to the summer solstice at Stonehenge — they just use modern technology, like so: People at Stonehenge on the solstices know how to throw a party.
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Our ancient ancestors were far more connected than we are to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
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Fun fact: This year, it falls before the summer solstice, so the days get longer as the month goes on.
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Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (standing, right), celebrates the annual summer solstice with a garden party at his home.
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The term used for the summer solstice, Alban Hefin, was dreamed up by a Welsh antiquarian in the 18th century.
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The Sun enters your sign, Cancer, on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone, bringing the summer solstice!
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Different cultures have different summer solstice traditions: Swedes prefer to eat strawberries, the Chinese conduct the famous Dragon Boat Festival.
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This year's summer solstice will occur a little less than two weeks after the Strawberry Moon on Wednesday, June 21.
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The singer and poet's birth time was once thought to be 93:46 AM on the summer solstice, June 21.
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Before we knew it, the wellness point of view had invaded everything in our lives: Summer-solstice sales are wellness.
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The summer solstice offers the perfect opportunity to ponder the explosive ball of plasma that makes our very existence possible.
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The summer solstice arrives just after 6:30pm EST on Monday, June 20, marking the longest day of the year.
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Light bright Light reigns today and tonight: It's the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, but wait there's more!
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That's because yesterday officially marked the arrival of the summer solstice — the longest day of the year, and official seasonal transition.
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I somehow wound up at a Swedish Summer Solstice party in Beachwood Canyon, where I passed out on one of beds.
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Since the summer solstice is associated with the element of fire, altars facing south, the direction ruled by fire, are ideal.
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Cancer season officially kicks off on the summer solstice—June 21—illuminating this magical but very private sector of your chart.
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I'm Jamieson, I'm still your host, and I always get a little bummed out when the summer solstice is within reach.
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Game of Thrones is celebrating the summer solstice the only way it knows how — reminding us all that Winter Is Coming.
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Part of the reason that so many of us love to celebrate the arrival of the summer solstice may be psychological.
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So, when we move from a day with less daylight to more, as we do on the summer solstice, happiness increases.
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So it might just be worth treating yourself to a belated Summer Solstice gift in the form of fruity Rosé popsicles.
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We ended up shooting the sunrise for hours running up and down the beach and reveling in the summer solstice experience.
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On Monday night, a rare and stunning occurrence took place: The "Strawberry Moon," June's full moon, coincided with the summer solstice.
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The summer solstice, on June 21, is supposed to be the day of the year with the longest stretch of sunlight.
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These illuminated evenings peak around the summer solstice at the end of June, but now, they are still at their brightest.
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Members of the Salinan tribe are allowed to go up each winter and summer solstice as part of an old ritual.
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The energy shifts when the Sun enters Cancer—the summer solstice—on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone.
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Technically speaking, the summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, or 23.5 degrees north latitude.
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Monday brought the summer solstice, which marks the beginning of the season and a chance to soak in copious amounts of sunshine.
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For ancient Egyptians, the summer solstice foreshadowed the annual flooding of the Nile River, whose water and silt nutrified the surrounding land.
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On Thursday, a split-second after the summer solstice at 6:07 am EDT, the days will steadily grow darker and darker.
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And the terminator, which separates night from day on Saturn, is also askew, owing to the planet's approach to northern summer solstice.
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Monday evening, a full "strawberry" moon shone in the night sky during the summer solstice — the longest day of the year. EarthSky.
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If you need a vitamin D fix, you'll have some extra time from today's Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.
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Parts of Colorado have received as much as 2 feet of snow, just 1 day after the summer solstice, reports CBS4 Denver.
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The summer solstice is next Thursday, June 21 — aka the longest day of the year and the official start of summer 2018.
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The energy shifts during the summer solstice when the Sun enters Cancer on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone.
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Occuring during the summer solstice and practically along the Tropic of Cancer, the eclipse would be at the zenith: directly above them.
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As the summer solstice approaches, the days get longer and the urge to make the most of all that extra sunlight rises.
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LONDON — On Monday night, as crowds gathered to celebrate the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — something pretty rare occurred.
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She discovered that some of them were marked for the summer solstice, proposing that the lines were some sort of astronomical calendar.
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Because the latter part of Ramadan that year coincided with the summer solstice, Muslim workers' daily periods of fasting were especially long.
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BeltaneBorn out of Pagan traditions, this holiday also falls on May 1, the midpoint between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice.
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Among them: an elaborate lace-making technique in Normandy, the summer solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees and folk dances in Brittany.
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That's the summer solstice, when the hemisphere will dip toward the sun, basking in its warmth for longer than any other day.
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We settled in at our site exactly three weeks before the summer solstice, but temperatures still swung into the 40s after dark.
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The land briefly opened and filled with wildflowers, similar to those that Swedes traditionally wear as crowns to celebrate the summer solstice.
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That's because during the summer solstice, the sun rises just over the structure's Heel Stone and hits the Altar Stone dead center.
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Ahead, learn how you can celebrate the summer solstice in your everyday life — and how you can take advantage of that extra sunlight.
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This Monday brings the summer solstice, which marks the beginning of the season and a chance to soak in copious amounts of sunshine.
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On the morning of the summer solstice, the sun rises and hits the structure's "Alter Stone" directly in its center, according to Vox.
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As the summer solstice rolls around and Cancer season begins on June 21, communication will continue to be a big theme for you.
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People meditate as thousands gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England, June 21.
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The Sun enters Cancer on June 21—the summer solstice—shining its light on a very private and sensitive sector of your chart.
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The energy shifts on the summer solstice when the Sun enters Cancer on June 20, or 21, if you're on the East Coast.
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But, as writer and practicing witch Julia Gustafson explains, the moon and the sun won't necessarily be at odds during the summer solstice.
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Four men brave the freezing cold sea to skinny dip during a summer solstice skinny-dip swim in south Wales on June 21.
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EVERY year during the summer solstice, a dog-eating festival takes place in Yulin, a city in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.
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Given the fiery, invigorating energy that's long been associated with the summer solstice, it's also a great day to spend with a lover.
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The Summer Solstice, otherwise known as the official moment when the summer season begins, occurs on Friday, June 21 at 11:54 a.m.
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The Sun entered fellow Water sign Cancer early this morning, marking the summer solstice and kicking off a season of fun and romance!
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A few days shy of the summer solstice, Beyoncé gave birth and thus completed a pop culture ritual that began on 1st February.
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The summer solstice occurs in the northern hemisphere, when the sun is at its northernmost point in the sky — the Tropic of Cancer.
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The summer solstice arrives with the Sun entering Water sign Cancer on June 20, or June 21 if you're on the East Coast.
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But that day marks the summer solstice and the beginning of Cancer season as the sun swoops into your sign for a month.
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You'll feel the energy shift during the summer solstice when the Sun enters Cancer (June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone).
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In 1986, a small group of friends gathered on Baker Beach to burn a 10-foot stick figure in honor of summer solstice.
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This view shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016, as that part of the planet nears its northern hemisphere summer solstice in May 2017.
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The birds' reappearance every spring roughly coincided with nine months after June 21 — the summer solstice, a time of celebration and many romantic liaisons.
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Connecting is a big theme during this time of month, especially since the Sun enters emotional Cancer on June 21, marking the summer solstice!
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There are four cross-quarter days in the year, plus the four "quarter" days (the spring equinox, summer solstice, fall equinox, and winter solstice).
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On the summer solstice a sharp beam of light shines through slabs of fallen rock and pierces the exact center of a spiral petroglyph.
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But, with summer solstice fast approaching, the Sun is now higher in Saturn's sky and most of Saturn's A ring is completely shadow-free.
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The summer solstice is on the way—embrace your inner witch and read your horoscope below to learn what all this means for you.
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Let us know how you plan to celebrate the summer solstice in the comments, below — and yes, sipping rosé by an open window counts.
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The summer solstice is also the day each year when the sultry sun moves from flirty, no-strings-attached Gemini into caring, sentimental Cancer.
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That's the ethos that guides Solstice in Times Square, a daylong yoga event which took place yesterday in New York, on the summer solstice.
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Enter Make Music New York, a citywide summer solstice celebration that quite literally comes to you with free concerts sprawling across all five boroughs.
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The boisterous tradition, a seaside Mardi Gras and summer solstice celebration that began in 1983, now draws over half a million revelers each year.
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Eating dog meat and lychees during the summer solstice, they argue, is a longstanding local custom, and no different from eating cows or pigs.
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This full moon — known as the "strawberry moon" — actually fell on the summer solstice for the first time in 22016 years, according to NASA.
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The event doubled as a celebration of the summer solstice and as a cathartic release for Harvey, who had recently ended a romantic relationship.
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The Yulin Dog Meat Festival is a dog meat-based event held annually in Yulin, China during the summer solstice days, normally starting June 21.
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A shift in energy arrives during the summer solstice, which marks the end of Gemini season, and finds the Sun entering fellow Water sign Cancer.
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But in the southern Chinese city of Yulin, some say eating dog meat and drinking lychee liquor on the summer solstice is an old tradition.
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Unfortunately, this year's Strawberry Moon does not coincide with the summer solstice like it did last year — that isn't predicted to happen again until 2062.
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Tonight is Midsummer, a celebration in Sweden and Finland and other Northern European countries that falls during the week of the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice.
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Although the summer solstice technically happens in late June, we liken the season to a state of mind — one that begins, well, right about now.
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Denise Cruci, high priestess of North Wyldewood Coven, and her covenmate JoAnna Farrer guided the group through Midsummer, an annual ritual celebrating the summer solstice.
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As an actor, he is further credited with a role in the 1981 made-for-TV movie Summer Solstice, also starring Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy.
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In June there's the Strawberry Moon , AKA the Hot Moon , because the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – marks the start of summer heat.
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Yup. The mermaids march the same weekend as the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and official start to summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
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On Earth's May 24, the planet achieved its summer solsice, when its northern pole tilted towards the sun, as happens on our own planet's summer solstice.
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So, in the same way that the summer solstice is the midpoint for the year, the first quarter moon is the midpoint for the lunar cycle.
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The temps may have already risen to sweat-worthy heights, but the summer season won't officially arrive until this Thursday, June 21, with the summer solstice.
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IN A quiet location on the north-western edge of the United States, a group of devotees gather round a bonfire to celebrate the summer solstice.
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Image: capt_tain Tom/FlickrThe Summer Solstice is expected to be very sweet this year, thanks to the arrival of what is known as a Strawberry Moon.
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You'll feel a shift in energy during the summer solstice when the Sun enters Cancer, on June 20, or 21, if you're on the East Coast.
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The energy shifts on the summer solstice when the Sun enters psychic Water sign Cancer on June 20, or 21, if you're on the East Coast.
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Times Sqaure, New York City (CNN)About 12,000 people signed up to roll out their mats and celebrate the summer solstice in the heart of Manhattan.
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That's when the summer solstice occurs in the northern hemisphere, making it longest day of the year and the one with the most hours of sunlight.
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At Stonehenge, once a year during the summer solstice, the rising Sun perfectly aligns with the 5,000-year-old stones, signaling the beginning of the season.
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A new Game of Thrones Season 7 trailer has arrived just in time to celebrate Summer Solstice, because forget what the calendar says, winter is here.
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Finally, we celebrate summer solstice, the year's most important celebration, when the witches use their magical power to predict the future of mankind in the stars.
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Latest Project For the summer solstice, Ms. Kwong created a quarter-mile landscape installation on the High Line in partnership with the liquor brand St-Germain.
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On June 20, the former group mobilized against Trump again—taking advantage of the summer solstice, a time when magical powers are believed to be heightened.
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To this day, August is still imbued with a feeling of conclusion: Nature's period of growth and bounty, which peaked with the summer solstice, is officially over.
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The longest day of the year is recognized across the northern hemisphere, but an established and highly-spirited celebration of the summer solstice takes place in Sweden.
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Where the summer solstice stirs up the senses and imbues everything with an enthusiastic energy, the fall equinox encourages you to look inward and practice self-care.
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Here is what she wrote on March 20, 2012: The frame of the photograph above will not change between now and the summer solstice on June 20.
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There's the feast of San Juan, falling on the summer solstice, when Galicians build bonfires and jump over the flames nine times to ward off evil spirits.
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Mars entered Cancer early this month, lighting a fire under your butt, so put yourself out there; after the summer solstice, there will be no stopping you!
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Scene City 27 Photos View Slide Show ' The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation observed the summer solstice on June 21 with a picnic on Liberty Island.
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Around 10pm at a summer solstice party somewhere in Canada on June 20, 2000, about 143 people swallowed glasses of water mixed with the powerful psychedelic LSD.
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I've driven a Zodiac boat in Antarctica, crashed through leech-infested forests in India and stayed awake for nearly four straight days during the Norwegian summer solstice.
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A single-story, 100-meter-long gallery oriented to frame the sun at dawn on the summer solstice balances over a vertiginous hill dotted with tangerine trees.
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His original idea was to hold a "Saturnales de la Musique" twice a year, on the summer solstice and the winter solstice (June 210 and December 21).
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On Friday, June 21, the northern hemisphere will officially welcome the first day of summer, which is known as the summer solstice or Litha in nature-based faiths.
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A GUIDE TO SUMMER SOLSTICE, FROM STONEHENGE TO THE EARTH&aposS TILT The first monument at the site, an early "henge" monument, was constructed about 5,000 years ago.
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While full moons in June obviously aren't rare, the Farmer's Almanac reports it was the first time since 1967 the "Strawberry Moon" lined up with the summer solstice.
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We're currently in the midst of Cancer's solar season, which kicked off on the summer solstice in June, so you might be more tuned into your feelings already.
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Understandably, the festival, which commences each year on the summer solstice, has caught the attention of numerous animal-loving celebrities, who have spoken out and fought against it.
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This year's Night at the Museums coincides with Make Music New York, the summer-solstice outdoor concert festival that includes many of the participating institutions as performance sites.
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On the summer solstice this Friday, the Northern Hemisphere will dip toward the sun and bathe in direct sunlight for longer than any other day of the year.
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Not that anyone wants to entertain the notion of even a single extra moment in Albany after Wednesday, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year.
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Finally, Thursday is the summer solstice, when the Northern Hemisphere dips toward the sun and bathes in direct sunlight for longer than any other day of the year.
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This Friday marks the summer solstice—the longest day of the year, the kickoff to the hottest season, and a ritual holiday for countless past and present cultures.
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After a weekend of celebrating for his 73th birthday, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton headed to Oklahoma on Monday, celebrating the summer solstice with a day full of activities.
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The Stonehenge monument in England is known for its alignment with the summer solstice sunrise, and a is popular destination for revelers welcoming the longest day of the year.
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Properly recreating this festive party stateside requires more than just flower crowns and dancing around a decorated maypole — a key component to any summer solstice celebration is the menu.
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SALISBURY PLAIN, England (Reuters) - Thousands of people watched the sun rise at Stonehenge on Tuesday after gathering at the ancient monument site in southern England to mark summer solstice.
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Deniz Aslan is an illustrator who responded to this year's summer solstice theme by organizing a Pagan craft workshop, where participants made dolls paying homage to a Celtic goddess.
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You'll feel the energy shift during the summer solstice—when the Sun enters psychic and emotional Water sign Cancer on June 20, or 21, depending on your time zone.
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In New York City, for example, the sun will be in the sky for just over nine hours — roughly six hours less than in June at the summer solstice.
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In the past, officials have mostly skirted the issue, insisting that the festival is a local tradition signaling the summer solstice and not organized or endorsed by the government.
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WCVB's projects included "Summer Solstice," a made-for-television movie starring Henry Fonda, and "Miller's Court," a weekly talk show hosted by the Harvard law professor Arthur R. Miller.
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The summer solstice is upon us: Friday, June 21 is the longest day of 2019, and the start of the summer season, for anyone living north of the equator.
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That year's summer solstice was the longest period of daylight the Northern Hemisphere has ever seen (and, conversely, the 1912 winter solstice was the longest night we've ever seen).
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It's little wonder, then, that there's a crystal or two with spiritual properties that match the warm, invigorating energy of the summer solstice, which officially arrives this Thursday, June 21.
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Police move to evict revelers at Stonehenge after a large number of people converged on the site to view the sunrise during the celebration of the summer solstice, June 300.
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Today is known as the summer solstice, or the longest day of the year (if you're curious, you can even calculate the exact amount of daylight your area will enjoy).
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For the Greeks, the summer solstice was the first day of the year, and it was also a time for celebrations, like Kronia, which honored Kronos, the god of agriculture.
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The name is a reference to Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument in England that famously aligns with the rising sun at the summer solstice and draws visitors from across the globe.
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Many dozens of free performances of every kind — surf rock, punk cabaret, mandolin orchestra, Bach — fill the city from dawn to nightfall each summer solstice for Make Music New York.
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In Paris, where it all started — and where the sun stays up till 10 pm on the summer solstice, with twilight until almost 11 — the celebration feels especially fierce now.
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The team hope to send more transmissions to the planet in April 2018, including a time when Earth will be listening for their reply: the northern hemisphere's summer solstice in 2043.
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SALISBURY PLAIN, England, June 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of people watched the sun rise at Stonehenge on Tuesday after gathering at the ancient monument site in southern England to mark summer solstice.
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He brought back reports of a land called Thule, six days north of Scotland, "where... there are no nights during the [summer] solstice...and also no days during the winter solstice".
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We in the northern hemisphere hail that singular moment as the summer solstice – "solstice" coming from the Latin words for sun and stop – but few of us today understand its full significance.
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The Meaning Of The Summer Solstice MoonThe moon is working in tandem with the solstice, encouraging us to nail down our plans (and see them through) for the rest of the year.
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The term was coined by Neil deGrasse Tyson back in 2001 in reference to England's Stonehenge, a historical landmark where the sunrise forms a perfect alignment with the rocks during summer solstice.
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Two spiritually significant events are set to occur tomorrow, June 21: The seasons will officially change with the summer solstice and the sun will move into Cancer for its annual, monthlong visit.
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Both art lovers and the spiritually attuned gathered, all adorned in fancy dress, to celebrate the summer solstice and one of the Royal Academy of Arts most anticipated showings, the Summer Exhibition.
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We'll celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, the same day that the sun moves from curious and airy Gemini into protective and family-oriented Cancer, joining up with Mercury in the process.
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He notes that Solstice Canyon was named for the winter and summer solstice ceremonies performed with music there by the local Chumash Indians, centuries before the Stetsons or Kaplan and Pinder showed up.
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A date has been set for this year's Yulin Dog Meat Festival, an annual summer solstice festival in Southern China during which an estimated 10,000 dogs are killed and consumed, along with lychees.
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They were part of a group of 14 protesters who turned up to voice their opposition to a plan to charge for parking during the upcoming summer solstice events at the ancient site.
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Pugh plays Dani, a young woman who, in the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy, accompanies her inattentive boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his friends to a remote Swedish folk festival celebrating the summer solstice.
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What in the World The annual Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, which will open this week coinciding with the summer solstice, has drawn domestic and international condemnation from people concerned with animal rights.
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But it gave me comfort to see his name pop up on my Facebook feed right before the summer solstice, urging me, a child of the moon, to control my emotions and embrace change.
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The stamp itself was designed by art director Antonio Alcalá and will have its "First-Day-of-Issue ceremony" at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie on June 20, the summer solstice.
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The same storm systems that have been plaguing the eastern half of the United States continued to wreak their havoc on Friday, casting shadows over the summer solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer.
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The traditional festival celebrates the summer solstice with overnight festivities such as people singing and dancing before jumping over campfires, as they believe it will purge them of their sins and make them healthier.
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The warmer months are upon us, and if your mind isn't already in summer mode, it surely will be this Friday, June 21, when we reach the summer solstice and the season begins in earnest.
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The new Game of Thrones Season 7 trailer is here just in time for Summer Solstice, and it's packed with clues about the conflicts — and alliances — we can look forward to when July 16 arrives.
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Traditional owners like Bryon Powell and the scientists they're working with say the stones have possible solar indications, marking the movements of the sun over the year, including the summer solstice, equinox and winter solstice.
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I've compiled some sweet gift ideas for the caring Cancers in your life—check them out below: Cancer season kicks off with the summer solstice, and solar returns generally bring more energizing, action-taking energy.
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When to watch a Manhattanhenge sunset in 22018 Manhattanhenge straddles the summer solstice on June 21 over two pairs of days — one that happens several weeks before the solstice, and the other several weeks after.
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You can add her to the list of stars — including Miley Cyrus, Rachel Brosnahan, Lea Michele, and, dare we say it, Felicity Huffman — who have swapped their winter brunettes for blonde ahead of the summer solstice.
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If you've been putting off your summer pedicure until the season's official start date (we'll call that the summer solstice, June 21), it's just about time to switch to open-toed shoes for the months ahead.
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It also added that Rouser was allowed to have religious items in his cell, permitted to observe pagan holidays like Yule and the summer solstice, and instructed to take any further violations straight to the warden.
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We document our entry into the Arctic Circle, which is the geographic region where the sun does not set on the day of summer solstice and does not rise on the day of the winter solstice.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People around the world can now view the movement of the sun and stars over the ancient stone circle at Britain's Stonehenge through a live-stream launched on Friday, the summer solstice.
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Their latest work uses a computer model that simulated 3,600 three-week trips from Norway to Greenland under varying cloud cover at two dates, spring equinox and summer solstice, which are marked on the Uunartoq disc.
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The summer solstice is approaching, which means it's time for one of the most spectacular sights of the season: Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun perfectly aligns with the street grid of Manhattan, happens today and tomorrow.
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Right now, at the winter solstice, sunset in New York comes around 4:30 and there are only nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight — nearly six hours fewer than at the summer solstice in June.
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STONEHENGE, England, June 21 (Reuters) - Around 10,000 people gathered to celebrate summer solstice at Britain's Stonehenge on Friday, watching the sun rise behind the ancient stone circle built by our Neolithic ancestors over 4,500 years ago.
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Marking the longest day of the year and the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice has been celebrated for millennia at Stonehenge, a World Heritage Site in the southwest county of Wiltshire.
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The name alludes to Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old rock formation in England that aligns with the rising sun during the summer solstice -- an event that heralds the beginning of the summer season for the Northern Hemisphere.
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Different cultures around the world have their own ways of celebrating the start of it—here at The Creators Project, we thought we would share in the festivities with a Summer Solstice sixer for your viewing pleasure.
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This sweet-smelling plant shares roses' longstanding connection to the summer solstice and many of their spiritual properties, so feel free to let your linden blossoms mingle with your roses — if nothing else, they'll look pretty together.
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A woman dances during the Festival of San Juan, an African and Catholic tradition celebrating the summer solstice, the coming of the rains, and the freedom of the black slaves who fled to Curiepe during colonial times.
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When Cassini first observed the hexagon in 2012, it was a shade of blue; in 2017, as the summer solstice approached, it was more of a yellow hue, likely due to exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays.
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Shakespeare's popular play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," written toward the end of the 16th century, alludes to the festive time around the summer solstice with a story of two young couples who wander into a magical forest.
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The first time I spent the summer in Paris, a friend told me to keep my calendar free on the evening of June 20173, the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Both of these phases are associated with taking action and making decisions and they happen to coincide with the summer solstice, the longest day of year (find out just how much more daylight your city will enjoy here).
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When a full moon also coincides with the Summer Solstice, it's called a Strawberry Moon, named for when Algonquin tribes used the solstice as a signal for when fruits were ready for picking, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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The summer solstice, which marks the official start of the season, brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere, while those living in the Southern Hemisphere will experience the opposite.
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"The change from a bluish color to a more golden hue may be due to the increased production of photochemical hazes in the atmosphere as the north pole approaches summer solstice in May 2017," NASA wrote in a statement.
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As Wednesday marked the summer solstice - the longest day of the year - forecasters said temperatures in Paris were expected to hit 2000 Celsius (220 Fahrenheit), Madrid could see 20C, and London was set for 34C with warnings of thunderstorms.
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On Thursday night, St-Germain elderflower liqueur celebrated the Summer Solstice with a floral-inspired bash that welcomed stars like Maggie Gyllenhaal and Real Housewives of New York star Luann de Lesseps to the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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Update: Today marks this year's summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the one on which the sun reaches its highest point, and for the first time in almost 70 years, it coincides with the strawberry moon.
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Interestingly, in chambers that are aligned to the summer solstice—like Bryn Celli Ddu in Anglesey—if you have sounds of that 111 frequency what will happen is a standing wave will occur because the chamber is attuned to that frequency.
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Last week, for instance, you may have noticed that summer officially started right around the same time that your Twitter feed filled up with Cancer memes — that's because Cancer's solar season kicks off on the same day as the summer solstice.
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The maps, which Bishop-Taylor released recently on his Imgur page, show us the topography of the continental United States and Europe as mapped by sunset shadows—the shadows cast by hills and mountains just before sunset on a summer solstice.
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That institution may be the only art museum to have a summer solstice architectural feature (prove me wrong, commenters): a beam of sunlight passes through a solar tube at noon and lights up a silver dollar set in the floor.
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Probably the most famous is Stonehenge , the Neolithic monument at Wiltshire in the Salisbury Plain of England, where, on the day of the summer solstice, as seen from inside the monument, the sun appears to rise directly above the so-called Heel Stone.
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Every year over the Summer Solstice, thousands of people flock to Somerset, England's Worthy Farm to bask in sets from some of the largest and most eclectic names in music, and move significantly closer to giving themselves a disease of the liver.
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It can be spiritually satisfying to bring elements of nature into your home whenever the seasons change (think about all those decorative gourds you bring home during autumn or the evergreen boughs we associate with December), and the summer solstice is no exception.
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It's not officially summer yet — summer solstice begins in late June — but temperatures are warming up and kids are starting to get out of school so the unofficial summer has begun, which for many teenagers means trips to the beach with their friends.
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Although Wednesday was the urbanite's summer solstice — the day that New York City's 55 outdoor pools opened for the season and children could, at last, carom into the chlorine — the swimming season at the placid indoor pool in Williamsburg lasts all year.
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This play out of Scotland, set on the summer solstice, comes from talented stock: The writers are David Greig (whose darker play-with-music, "The Events," ran in New Haven and New York) and Gordon McIntyre, of the indie-pop band Ballboy.
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Yet, at a guess, it was not on the basis of Olivier Rousteing's glittering glad rags that thousands clamored for tickets to last week's Balmain men's wear show, held on the long night of the summer solstice in the Jardin des Plantes.
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Headlined by Radiohead, Die Antwoord, Deftones, and Goldie, and supported by an undercard of house and techno acts like Jamie Jones, Skream, Apollonia, and Visionquest, the 17,000-capacity festival in central Reykjavik made its third outing in June, during the summer solstice.
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A celebration of the summer solstice, the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival was at one time supported by the local government to boost the city's economy, but the government has since distanced itself from the festival due to the controversy surrounding the event.
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Wednesday marked the summer solstice which is not only the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but also the longest day of the year which should help explain why most of you probably didn't see the sun set yesterday until roughly 9pm.
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Now Aster is back with Midsommar, an ambitious and operatic summertime nightmare in which a group of American graduate students travels to a remote village in Sweden for Midsummer festivities centered on the summer solstice — and discovers they're in way, way over their heads.
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These days, they host a summer solstice party under the midnight sun at the top of Keno Hill, 6,000 feet above sea level, and end the season with a raucous Labor Day weekend festival known as Keno Gras, featuring costumes and a pig roast.
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Scene City 25 Photos View Slide Show ' The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts held its opening night gala on June 17 at its home in Katonah, N.Y. The Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., celebrated the summer solstice on June 17.
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Rising country star Jay Allen is celebrating the summer solstice by soaking up the sun on both coasts, beginning with a performance of his hit song "Blank Stares" in Virginia Beach in honor of his mom, Sherry Rich, who passed away from Alzheimer's earlier this year.
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With Game of Thrones Season 033 less than a month away, HBO officially has zero chill: the network is choosing to mark the Summer Solstice with an epic online campaign to "winterize" the web, using Twitter, Reddit and Google to remind us all that winter is here.
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Ever since 252, when a small gathering of artists and friends first gathered at San Francisco's Baker Beach to celebrate the Summer Solstice by igniting an eight-foot male effigy, the art of the Burning Man festival was not meant to be seen by the outside world.
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Then it's another 93 days and 18 hours to the summer solstice — when the most direct rays of the sun reach their northernmost latitude, called the Northern Tropic (or Tropic of Cancer) — and another 92 days and 16 hours to get back to the fall equinox.
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It took me 15 years as a lesbian to finally become a person who pays attention to whether Mercury is in retrograde, someone who is excited about the summer solstice on June 21, a person who reads her Chani Nicholas horoscope each week with bated breath.
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Modern-day Druidry usually involves the observation of eight festivals ("The Wheel of the Year") of which four are solar and four are lunar - the most recognizable being the summer solstice, which thousands of people celebrate at Stonehenge every year regardless of whether they're a Druid or not.
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Since 2009, the festival has been held each year during the summer solstice, and for as long as the event has existed, animal lovers have been trying to stop it, including celebrities like Lisa Vanderpump (who made a documentary on the atrocity of the event) and Ricky Gervais.
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But first, a primer on what exactly Burning Man is: The first incarnation of the festival took place on the summer solstice in 1986, when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James spontaneously decided to burn an eight-foot-tall wooden effigy of a man on Baker Beach, San Francisco.
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This annual exercise in motorsports overkill is an 250-year-old tradition This annual exercise in motorsports overkill is an 240-year-old tradition held on public and private roads just outside the French village of Le Mans on the weekend of the summer solstice to maximize sunlight.
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Representatives of the group, which is based in Washington, along with Chinese animal rights advocates, also delivered the petition on Friday to the Beijing office of the government of Yulin, where the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival has taken place on the summer solstice since 2010 amid mounting controversy.
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Around those obstacles streamed leather painted with poppies and other blooms; Prince of Wales jackets with backs that had been cut open to expose the spine and trimmed in chains; and a slick black pair of trousers topped with the silver cobweb slip of a summer solstice priestess.
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The Temple of the Sun is a semicircular structure constructed around a large boulder on the lower part of a hill and aligned so that when summer solstice occurs, light shines through a window and aligns with both the boulder and the top of a nearby mountain peak.
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It's also close to the Feast of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, or St. John the Baptist, a day that was historically marked by a major celebration in France (and is still a national holiday in Quebec), and which itself was partly chosen by the church to coincide with summer solstice celebrations.
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The summer solstice has only just passed, and we've already covered it all when it comes to swimwear: the most Instagram-worthy swimsuit trends, the most enviable plus-size swimsuits, high-waisted bikinis, weird tan line-inducing one-pieces, and the mother of all stories, how to wear a swimsuit to work.
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While the winter solstice signals an emphasis on sitting with the intentions for the coming season and what the waxing year will hold, the summer solstice celebrates the vivacity and passion of the sun and of the energy it ignites, namely through the action of doing, collectings and reaping the rewards of what's been sown.
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They're joined by Christian's friends Josh—whose thesis is about Scandinavian mid-summer festivals, pagan celebrations of the summer solstice believed to date back to the Stone Age—and Mark, an incessantly vaping dirtbag who seems to be along on the trip mostly as an avatar for the hedonistic insensitivity of Americans on vacation abroad.
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Depictions of Burning Man tend to focus on the hedonistic antics of attendees, but from the beginning, when its co-founder, Larry Harvey, burned a wooden effigy as a summer solstice ritual on a San Francisco beach in 240, art has been part of its DNA, and increasingly the museum world is taking notice.
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He said he modeled the parade after international summer solstice celebrations, so at the end of the route, he and a priest of varying faiths -- this year, it's a Native American shaman of the Lakota people -- ask the neighborhood water spirits for good weather during the summer, booming business and safety for those who visit its beaches.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On the evening of the 2018 Summer Solstice, more than 20 art and design spaces in Tribeca stayed open late for The Tribeca Art + Culture Night, which is part of the River to River Festival, and what stood out immediately was how many spaces decided to explore the darker side of sex and desire, all with a critical edge.
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And with the summer solstice just around the corner, now's a great time to upgrade your home's heating and cooling system with the addition of the new Nest Thermostat E. An exceptional blend of form and function, this Nest E features a chic minimalist design that blends seamlessly into the rest of your home decor, and comes equipped with proven energy-saving technology that learns as you use it.
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Scouting Report It's officially summer, and the Society Boutique, the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering's thrift shop, is teaming up with the luxury fashion e-tailer Halsbrook to stretch the longest day of the year a little longer: a Summer Solstice charity pop-up benefiting the research hospital is open through Thursday with discounts of up to 803 percent on breezy bits like a No. 21 lace-embroidered cotton dress ($321, originally $1,2300).
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Expect surprising news and conversations, or even some chance meetings, thanks to Mercury connecting with Uranus at 5:30 AM. Our confidence will be boosted when the Moon, in Taurus, connects with Mars at 11:21 AM; creative inspiration will arrive when the Moon connects with Neptune at 5:25 PM and Venus at 6:24 PM. The sun enters water sign Cancer at 12:24 AM: Welcome to Cancer season, and happy summer solstice!
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For example, this week you may have read front-page news articles like ... After Secrecy, Senate G.O.P. Releases Bill to End Obamacare Otto Warmbier, American Student Released From North Korea, Dies Karen Handel Wins in Georgia's 6th District Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Killing of Philando Castile Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Case Ends in a Mistrial Or, maybe you found stories like these from the Style, International, Magazine, Sports, U.S., Tech or Science sections: Ken's New Look(s), Deconstructed The Black Sea Turned Turquoise, Thanks to a Phytoplankton Bloom Out of High School,Into Real Life The Boys From Baga Hasan Minhaj Thinks Comedy Is for Weirdos China, Where the Pressure to Marry Is Strong, and the Advice Flows Online This Boy Scout Has Enough Merit Badges for a Whole Troop Summer Solstice: A Great Moment to Ponder the Sun A 12-Year-Old Came Out to Her Mormon Church.
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