#midsummer day

[pagan-stitches]

This pattern is where I found the insects I used in my midsummer/Kupala piece.

'Bugs Sampler' by MaryHickmottDesigns available on Etsy for download

[rufousnmacska]

Happy Philip Pullman rips your heart from your chest and gleefully stomps it into the ground Day!

[halljavalge]

Source: tidningenlantliv

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ

[wiccan-twink]

Happy Midsummer!!!

Happy Midsummer to all of my gays, theys, and unashamed f*ggots ily all 🧚‍♂️✨💘🌞❤️‍🔥🥰

[subby-sab]

Today is 24th of June.

Today is International Fairy Day, Midsummer Day, National Pralines Day, Upcycling Day.

[maypoleman1]

25th June

Midsummer Day/ St John the Baptist’s Day

Source: Green Canticle website

Today is Midsummer Day and St John the Baptist’s Day. At Magdalen College in Cambridge an open air service is held in honour of the Baptist. The pulpit is built into the stone wall of the quadrangle which, in years gone by, was decorated in greenery for the service, denoting a decidedly pagan origin to worship on this site. The rather weak Christian explanation for the midsummer garlanding was that the vegetation represented the wilderness through which St John wandered.

The seventh century Irish princess, St Bega, fleeing a forced marriage, ended up shipwrecked off the Cumbrian coast. Finding refuge with the local landowner, Lord Egremont, Bega asked that she be allowed to thank God for her salvation by building an abbey on the spot. The lord, reluctant to give up prime real estate to a fugitive and penniless princess, promised to do so if the following day there was a snowfall, which it being Midsummer Eve, was unlikely even in Cumbria. However the next morning, three miles of Egremont’s land was covered with midsummer snow. The abbey was duly built at modern St Bees. Sadly this tale is almost certainly fiction. An Anglo-Saxon bracelet, allegedly belonging to Bega and worshiped as a holy relic for centuries, was kept at the abbey at St Bees. The Saxon English term for bracelet is beag, and Bega’s life story was probably improvised from this unlikely source.

Today is also rumoured to be when one of the standing stones at Callanish on the island of Lewis walks. Local giants were turned to stone by St Ciaran when they refused to help the saint build a church there. Every Midsummer, one of the giants, known as The Shining One, comes back to life and walks down the avenue of standing stones formed by the Fir Chreig, or “false men”.

[theravenpiper]

Happy Midsummer Day

"Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,

(All of a Midsummer morn!)

Surely we sing no little thing,

In Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!"

- Rudyard Kipling

[ronk]

The Dyan Moon

One of the many names for this June Full Moon is the Celtic Dyan Moon.

The Full Moon in June 2024 will occur on Friday, June 21 at 9:08 PM ET. Commonly called the Strawberry Moon, Rose Moon or Thunder Moon, and by less common names like the Birth Moon. The Celts called this the Horse Moon and the Mead Moon. I’m not sure why it is a Horse Moon but Mead Moon is one I have written about before. They also called it the Dyan Moon. That Medieval name for the June Full…

[ohsharethekmusic]

Song : Midsummer Day

Artist : Park Misun

Album : Forecasting Love And Weather OST Special

[wherekizzialives]

Ask Me No Questions

The sixth tale in my Flashes of Feathers series, Ask Me No Questions, is now available for your reading pleasure this midsummer weekend:

Summer had arrived in all its lush and lovely glory, a feast for the senses of both villagers and wildwood denizens alike. The Village gardens were bursting with blooms and heavy with scent; tea roses, climbing roses, peonies and chrysanthemums, alstromeria, alliums, sweet william and stocks. The lavender plants in nearly every border were thrumming with bees, as was the purple toadwart and the…

[mayamiyamaillustration]

Work in progress for upcoming events.

[territorial-utopia]

This is what it was all for

Happy Midsummer's Eve!!!

[halljavalge]

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ - midsummer day wreath. Jaanipärg.

[dreamingpartone]

at that place we sat together today again, I'll go to where you're going

[trekfacility]

i want that transgender ass jacket of his so bad...