Hey! Last night was Summer Solstice

[Dreadful Nonsense]

Contents of the unconscious

arise out of the forest

of darkness. The feminine

reflective nature of being

encounters with the solar fiery

elementals as being the warm

energies belonging to the

masculine polarity of the soul.

Yin meets Yang on the eve

when night and day are in

balanced equilibrium.



Steve Kalec

 

[#juan]

On top of all that, it was the first day of Summer. Now there is no excuse for the crappy weather we've been having. ;-):lol: Btw, I think yesterday was the longest day of the year I think day and night are balanced in the spring and Fall Equinox.

 

[daisygirl]

You can balance an uncooked egg on its end only on those two days, when everything is balanced...The Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter Equinox.

 

[#juan]

The Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter Equinox.

Should read Winter/Spring and Fall/Winter Equinox.........World champion nit-picker...:lol:

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

Should read Winter/Spring and Fall/Winter Equinox.........World champion nit-picker...:lol:

I dunno jaun but the summer solstice is pretty much a given that it is the even amount of night and day as one can get.....

Winter soltice the days start getting longer and like the pagans breathed a sigh of relief the sun wasn't going to leave them as of tommorrow the days are going to get shorter.

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

lol jaun you is messin me up here....LOL
so like the eve of the winter soltice is the shortest day?

 

[#juan]

I dunno jaun but the summer solstice is pretty much a given that it is the even amount of night and day as one can get.....

Winter soltice the days start getting longer and like the pagans breathed a sigh of relief the sun wasn't going to leave them as of tommorrow the days are going to get shorter.

Hey Doc
Thanks for giving me a chance to be right...It doesn't happen all that often...:lol: The days when day and night are of equal length are on the Spring an Fall Equinox. The Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice are respectively the longest and shortest days of the year.......cheers

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I dunno jaun but the summer solstice is pretty much a given that it is the even amount of night and day as one can get

No, thats the Equalnox(s). In the northern hemisphere the summer solstice is the most daylight, and the shortest night. Days will start getting shorter from here on out. On the Equalnoxes days and nights are each 12 hours long anywhere on the globe.

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

Hey Doc
Thanks for giving me a chance to be right...It doesn't happen all that often...:lol: The days when day and night are of equal length are on the Spring an Fall Equinox. The Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice are respectively the longest and shortest days of the year.......cheers

Man we must be glad we are not some sort of pagan high priests....lol
Yeah I messed up .

 

[daisygirl]

Should read Winter/Spring and Fall/Winter Equinox.........World champion nit-picker...:lol:

I just meant when Spring changes to Summer and when Fall changes to Winter........World champion explainer....:lol: ....but ok, I'll do it your way. ;-)

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

No, thats the Equalnox(s). In the northern hemisphere the summer solstice is the most daylight, and the shortest night. Days will start getting shorter from here on out. On the Equalnoxes days and nights are each 12 hours long anywhere on the globe.

Yer right Doug....Brain fart.

I pasted something Equinox as well.....lol ....
i'm much better at trolling

 

[triedit]

Significance of the summer solstice:

In pre-historic times, summer was a joyous time of the year for those Aboriginal people who lived in the northern latitudes. The snow had disappeared; the ground had thawed out; warm temperatures had returned; flowers were blooming; leaves had returned to the deciduous trees. Some herbs could be harvested, for medicinal and other uses. Food was easier to find. The crops had already been planted and would be harvested in the months to come. Although many months of warm/hot weather remained before the fall, they noticed that the days were beginning to shorten, so that the return of the cold season was inevitable.
The first (or only) full moon in June is called the Honey Moon. Tradition holds that this is the best time to harvest honey from the hives.
This time of year, between the planting and harvesting of the crops, was the traditional month for weddings. This is because many ancient peoples believed that the "grand [sexual] union" of the Goddess and God occurred in early May at Beltaine. Since it was unlucky to compete with the deities, many couples delayed their weddings until June. June remains a favorite month for marriage today. In some traditions, "newly wed couples were fed dishes and beverages that featured honey for the first month of their married life to encourage love and fertility. The surviving vestige of this tradition lives on in the name given to the holiday immediately after the ceremony: The Honeymoon."
http://www.religioustolerance.org/summer_solstice.htm

In our northern hemisphere, the exact time of the solstice is 6:06pm today (June 21)

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

In our northern hemisphere, the exact time of the solstice is 6:06pm today (June 21)

Technically the time is the same in the Southern hemisphere except for them its the start of winter.

6:06PM is EDT or GMT?

 

[triedit]

Times are in UT (Universal Time). This used to be called Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. In North America, you can find your local time by subtracting:

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]2 hours 30 minutes for Newfoundland daylight savings time[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]3 hours for ADT[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]4 hours for EDT[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]5 hours for CDT[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]6 hours for MDT[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]7 hours for PDT[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]8 hours in AKDT (Alaska)[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]9 hours in ADT (Aleutian Islands)[/FONT]

[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]10 hours in HST (Hawaii) [/FONT]

 

[triedit]

I think that means we just had it here in toronto....

 

[Dexter Sinister]

You can balance an uncooked egg on its end only on those two days, when everything is balanced...The Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter Equinox.

Not true.

 

[talloola]

That's hillarious.

My daughter and I celebrated summer solstice last night at midnight, bowl of frozen yogurt and a hug.
I know it didn't happen at midnight, but, 'what the hey', who cares.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

My daughter and I celebrated every day that way, before she moved out to start her own life. There wasn't always frozen yogurt, but there was always a hug, at least once a day. Now she's 300 km away, so hugs don't work like they used to, but we can still do virtual hugs...

 

[talloola]

My daughter and I celebrated every day that way, before she moved out to start her own life. There wasn't always frozen yogurt, but there was always a hug, at least once a day. Now she's 300 km away, so hugs don't work like they used to, but we can still do virtual hugs...

The hardest times in my life were seeing each of my daughters move out of our home, and on to their
own lives. I supported them through it, helped them as much as I could, did all the positive things that
I could do to make that time for them, as good as it could be, then, when it happened I completely
fell apart, and had to work on myself, to adjust.
I had a wonderful time raising my daughters, but as much as I helped them prepare for adulthood, I
didn't even think of what I would feel when they left.
I knew many parents who couldn't wait for their kids to leave, never really understood that concept.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I knew many parents who couldn't wait for their kids to leave, never really understood that concept.

I don't get it either. I love my children, and I like them too, they're good people and I'm very pleased with and proud of them. I wasn't in any sense ready for it when they moved out, even though I saw it coming a long time before it happened and I thought I was up for it. I wasn't. But I've adjusted.

Once a dad, always a dad. Some things don't change. And they shouldn't.