Summer solstice of the year when will be. Coming soon, one of the most powerful magical days of the year is the solstice.

In Russia, on this day, medicinal plants were collected, which acquired a special healing power. Also on the Cyril solstice, it was customary to purify with water, fire and copper dew.

On the eve, young people were guessing with the help different colors and plants, and the lovers swore eternal fidelity to each other.

In addition, it is believed that the day of the summer solstice is enhanced by all the rituals of solar magic.

On the day of the summer solstice:

• The subtle connection with the astral world is much easier.
• Fortune telling on the day and night of the summer solstice is much more accurate, especially on the Tarot cards and on the Runes. Fortune-telling for love gives truthful answers.
• Love magic spells work much better on the summer solstice.
• This is a powerful magical time for rituals with crystals, stones using solar energy.
• It is very good to heal on this day, because the Sun is an esoteric healer.
• It is good to collect herbs for magic, especially those used for solar magic, fire magic, and for healing.
• The night before the summer solstice is a magical time. To meet the solstice, rituals are held at night on the eve of this day. This is the time when the veil between our and the parallel worlds becomes thin, allowing magic, spirits and fairies to penetrate into our world.

Summer solstice: conspiracies and rituals

Heavenly ritual

if you have cherished desire, then you need to go out into an open field at 20:00 on June 21, bow to all four sides and say what you are dreaming about, addressing the sky. Then go home without speaking to anyone, take a bath with the addition of summer herbs at home and go to bed. In the morning, go to the meadow again and tell the sky about your desire, return home in silence and wash yourself in the shower. In the evening, repeat the ritual of the previous day, and then the desire will certainly come true.

Solar charge

You can put your desire in a jar of water on June 21 at night, whispering what you dream of, put the container on the windowsill, so that in the morning, when the sun starts shining and charges with its energy, you can take a couple of sips. Continue drinking charged water throughout the day so that not a drop is left in the evening.

Love conspiracy

Linden conspiracy

It is necessary to pick the leaves and flowers of the linden on the day of the solstice, saying the following words: "I collect the flowering linden and smell of love, let it bring me happiness and find a loved one." They need to be brought home and brewed 2 tbsp. tablespoons of leaves and flowers with a liter of boiling water, let it brew for half an hour. Drink half a glass during the day, and add the remainder to the bath, which you take before bed, wipe yourself with a white terry towel, then put on beautiful underwear, comb your hair and go to a fresh bed.

Conspiracy on flowers

It is necessary to pluck (you cannot buy, since the seller's energy can turn into a bouquet) seven flowers of red or pink color, which thin the pleasant aroma, these can be peonies or roses. Put them in your bedroom and, going to bed, say the following words: "The flower is fragrant, let there be a love case, there will be an unexpected acquaintance and a feeling without pretense." Close your eyes and imagine how you will meet an attractive person, see the appearance of this person - eyes, height, hair color, figure, etc., as well as clothes. Then imagine walking together and holding hands, or maybe even kissing and hugging. Fall asleep inhaling the scent of the flowers next to you. Add some water to the flowers in the morning.

Birch conspiracy

When leaving the house, put a scarf over your shoulders. Find a young birch tree, go up to her, hug her, feel her warmth and tell about your love, tell the name of this person and his beautiful appearance or qualities, for which you fell in love with him. Then take off your scarf and tie it to a birch tree, saying the following words: "Birch-friend, help make him (name) fall in love with yourself. Let him suffer without me and constantly remember. Accept a gift from me so that it will be hot for me"! Tear off three leaves and leave without looking back home, where put them in a glass of water in the room in which you spend the most time. As soon as they wither, take them to the birch tree and see if there is a scarf or not. If it is hanging, it means that the time has not yet come for the fulfillment of what was conceived, but if there is no scarf, then the ritual was successful. Try to attach the leaves to the branch.

Marriage conspiracy

On the evening of June 21, you need to collect 12 different herbs or flowers yourself and put them under your pillow with the words: "The aromas of the meadow, the aromas of the field, take me to sleepy expanse. I will lie down as a girl, wake up as a wife. Truly." After that, you need to go to bed. In the morning, wrap the assembled bouquet in paper and burn in the fire.

A ritual for a rich harvest

Sealing auspicious energy from the field

It is necessary to water all the plants in the garden in the evening of June 21, saying the following words: "The day is long - the harvest is rich. The sun is bright, the earth is fertile. Everything blooms and grows!" Repeat three times. Then stand in the western part of the garden and go around it three times, stopping in the eastern part. And stretch out your hands to the sky, as if to take the energy, then shake it off on the field. And so to do in the north, west and south. When leaving, make a movement as if you are closing the field with a key, which you then put in your pocket. Walk without looking back. In the morning, be sure to "open" the field.

Sowing the heat of the sun

On this day, you can sow the heat of the sun if you collect various thick and odorous herbs - wormwood, burdock, St. John's wort, mistletoe, dill, parsley, green onions, thyme, honeysuckle, hyssop, nettle, meadowsweet - in the evening of June 21, which are scattered throughout the field , pronouncing such words: "I throw the fatty herbs, I expect a good harvest." Repeat seven times. In the morning, take in plenty of water and sprinkle it all over the field, saying the following words: "I irrigate with untouched water, I attract plant growth!" When everything is ready, you can leave without looking back. It's best not to work today until the sun starts to set. Plants must be energized by herbs, sun and water.

Ritual for a change in life

In order to radically change your life, you need to spend the whole night from June 21 to June 22 at a spring or a well (you can also by a stream), every hour drinking a glass of water from it with the words: "As the water runs, it changes, so my life will change ". The ritual is advised to be performed from sunset to sunrise.

Wiccan wish-fulfillment ritual

The Witch's Ladder is a traditional talisman, the best time to create which - the day of the Summer Solstice. In order to make this amulet, you will need a long ribbon of yellow or gold color, nine small beads - you can use any color, all beads can be of the same color. The scheme by which the Witch's Ladder is made is extremely simple. Knot-bead-knot, "loose" piece of ribbon, knot-bead-knot, and so on. Stringing each bead, you can make wishes - different, or repeat the same thing. When all nine beads are strung on the ribbon, two more knots should be tied: at the beginning and at the end of the resulting "ladder". The Witch's Ladder should be hung over the entrance to the dwelling and removed only exactly one year later: on the day of the new Solstice, when it is traditionally burned in a fire made in honor of Lita.

Charm on the summer solstice

June 21, the day of the summer solstice, you can turn an ordinary thing that you use every day into a talisman that will last a whole year. To do this, you need to gather your entire family or closest friends in one large room. Everyone needs to be asked a job, and it should be general work- for example, making dumplings, stuffing pastry tubes with cream, etc. You can turn on music to help create an atmosphere of harmony and comfort.

All of this should happen about an hour before noon. On a table or any other elevated place, place a large bowl filled with water from a well or source, or consecrated. In the water, let everyone place their household item, which is more often than others with the owner - a comb, keychain, key, ring, bracelet (of course, it is necessary that the thing is not afraid of water).

The bowl must be surrounded by candles according to the number of household members, it is necessary to light them at the beginning of work, when the work is over (the dumplings are cooked, the tubes are baked), everyone is setting the table together, waiting for 12 noon (you need to calculate so that everything is in time by this time). Then everyone takes their dying candle in their hands and all together go around the house from east to west 3 times - it is desirable that the candle does not go out during the tour. One person also carries a bowl of water (his candle is carried by the one who follows him), from time to time lowers his hand there and sprinkles, and then baptizes the space in front of him, while uttering a spell in a whisper: "All living things, all living, with the warmth of love warmed, all that exists, may it be in peace and harmony, in good health and happiness, in warmth, in goodness, in itself! "

Solstice is one of two days of the year when the Sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator, i.e. when the Sun's height above the horizon at noon is minimum or maximum. This results in the longest day and shortest night (summer solstice) in one hemisphere of the Earth and the shortest day and longest night (winter solstice) in the other.

The summer solstice is the day of the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere of the Earth and the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere, that is, if the inhabitants of the northern part of the Earth are at the beginning of the astronomical summer from that moment, then the astronomical winter will begin for the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere at the same time period.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs on June 20, 21 or 22. In the southern hemisphere, the specified dates fall on the winter solstice. Due to various inequalities in the movement of the Earth, the epochs of the solstices fluctuate by 1-2 days.

In 2017, the astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere will begin on June 21 at 04.24 UTC (UTC, 07.24 Moscow time).

On the day of the summer solstice at the latitude of Moscow, the Sun rises above the horizon to an altitude of more than 57 degrees, and in territories located above the latitude of 66.5 degrees (the Arctic Circle), it does not go beyond the horizon at all, and the day lasts around the clock. At the North Pole of the Earth, the Sun moves across the sky at the same height around the clock. There is a polar night at the South Pole at this time.

During several adjacent solstice days, the Sun's noon heights in the sky are almost unchanged; hence the name of the solstice. After the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the day decreases and the night gradually begins to increase. In the southern hemisphere, the opposite is true.

For millennia, the day of the summer solstice was of great importance to our ancient ancestors, subject to natural cycles. In the days of the pagans, the sun had divine power over all living things, and the summer solstice meant the highest flowering of all the forces of nature.

In the old days, even before the advent of Christianity, the Kupala holiday dedicated to the ancient pagan god Kupala was timed to coincide with the summer solstice.

On this day and night, they wove wreaths, drank surya (honey drink), jumped over fires, made sacrifices to water and fire, collected medicinal herbs, performed rituals invoking the harvest, and "cleansing the soul and body" of bathing in rivers, lakes and streams. The fern occupied the central place among the vegetation that night. It was believed that a fern flower, blooming only for a moment at midnight, would indicate exactly where the treasure was buried.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources

Evening will come only after nine o'clock in the evening

Today is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere of our planet. This means that daylight hours will last longer today than on any other day. In Moscow, for example, the Sun began to rise above the horizon as early as 3:45, and the sunset would come only at 21:18. In the Southern Hemisphere, by contrast, today should be the shortest and the longest night.

The summer solstice can fall on June 20 (usually in leap years) or June 22, but it is June 21 that occurs most often. The height to which the Sun rises above the horizon today will be the maximum in the Northern Hemisphere, and the minimum for the entire year in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same time, for several days before and after June 21, the luminary at noon turns out to be practically at the same height, although in other periods of the year this indicator changes somewhat more rapidly. That is why the word "solstice" is used to designate today. At the north and south poles of the Earth, today is the middle of a six-month polar day and polar night, respectively.

Scientists call today the beginning of an astronomical summer in Eurasia, North America and most of Africa, as well as an astronomical winter in Australia and South America.

In many countries, there are traditions, one way or another associated with the arrival of the longest day of the year, even if they rarely coincide with the "astronomically" exact date. In particular, from the evening of June 23 (July 6 according to the new style) and until June 24 (July 7) it is celebrated folk holiday Eastern Slavs Ivan Kupala. In Sweden, Latvia and some other countries, the summer solstice is officially considered a day off.

From tomorrow, the day in the Northern Hemisphere will begin to gradually decrease, and in the Southern Hemisphere - to increase. September 22 will be the day of the vernal equinox, when day and night on the entire Earth will last almost equally (if you do not take into account the influence of atmospheric refraction, because of which the day will still be slightly longer), and on December 21 - the day of the winter solstice.

The summer solstice is an interesting phenomenon and we can observe it every year. Depending on whether leap year or not, the day of such a wonderful event as the solstice, which occurs in summer time, can be either June 20 or June 21. So when can we expect a holiday in the coming year? Summer solstice in 2017 it will be possible to observe, and, therefore, to celebrate on June 21. It is noteworthy that in the Northern Hemisphere of our planet, the summer solstice falls on summer June, but in the Southern Hemisphere - on December, 20th or 21st.

Although the June solstice is considered by many to be the beginning of summer, nevertheless, it is not the hottest time. Plus, Earth isn't the only planet to see the summer solstice. For example, on Mars, this event begins a couple of days after the Earth's summer solstice, and on the seventh planet from the hot star - Uranus - the summer solstice period is as much as 42 years!

The summer solstice holiday does not go unnoticed - people everywhere celebrate the longest day of the year, which, moreover, has the shortest night.

history of the holiday

Since ancient times, representatives of different races, different peoples and nationalities have endowed the bright yellow disk - the Sun - with special, sometimes even magical properties. Perhaps for this reason, the solstice holiday is one of the oldest holidays of mankind. It began to be celebrated long before the onset of our era.

Evidence of the stormy celebration of the summer solstice was found among the Baltic, Europeans and, of course, the Slavs. For many centuries, the holiday was celebrated in various places and the most distant corners of our vast planet. The forms and traditions of the celebration, of course, differed from each other, but one thing remained unchanged - the exaltation of the Sun and its power.

For the pagans, the holiday that heralded the beginning of summer was of great importance. The people believed that all the rituals performed on this day directly affect human lives - from the quality of health to good luck and happiness in the family. That is why, from year to year, on the day of the summer solstice, interesting magical rituals were held to help a person in many matters. Inhabitants settlements celebrated the holiday widely and cheerfully, following all folk traditions.

With the spread of Christianity, the holiday of the summer solstice suffered the fate of most pagan holidays - many traditions were lost without a trace. However, the habit of celebrating the summer solstice, instilled by generations, has remained to this day. The connection between paganism and Christianity turned out to be very strong. The Christian holiday called the Nativity of John the Baptist was superimposed in a special way on the pagan celebration of the Sun. The people began to tie the rituals to Christianity and, ultimately, the holiday began to be called Ivan Kupala.

How is the Midsummer Day celebrated?

In 2017, this astronomical event will occur on June 21 at 07:24 Moscow time. All day and night of the Midsummer Day or are filled with rituals, fortune-telling and beliefs associated with water, fire and medicinal herbs. Love spells, conspiracies for health, ceremonies to ward off evil spirits from the house - all this is part of the life of both our ancestors and our today's culture.

The fern flower is especially famous on this day. According to an old legend, which is believed not only by the Slavs, but also by other peoples, on the night of the solstice the plant blooms, and the beautiful flowering of the fern lasts only a few moments. It is considered valuable and very important to see the fern bloom. You can also collect the seeds of this important plant for the people. However, the legend says that the fern flower is firmly guarded by forest fairies and seeing it with your own eyes is not a job for the cowardly.

Young people in the evening of Ivan Kupala make fires, over which they then jump in pairs. If the arms open in a jump, the lovers will not be together for long. If they land and one hand is still tightly squeezing the other hand - such a sign predicts young happy life together.

Until the summer solstice or Ivan Kupala, it is strictly forbidden to swim in water bodies. According to ancient beliefs, until this day, evil spirits are extremely active and those who risked tempting fate can drown. In the villages and villages, word of mouth was passed on information about the number of drowned people specifically before the holiday of Ivan Kupala. People used to talk about evil mermaids and other evil spirits hiding under the water. And it is better not to disturb them again until the time of the summer solstice.

But on the longest day of the year, they swam en masse, spraying water cheerfully and fervently, frightening fish and frogs. The cool running water was believed to bring healing on Midsummer Day.

Unmarried girls wove wreaths and let them into the river - where the bright rim floats, from there her betrothed will come. If the wreath was nailed to the shore, then this was regarded as another year without a wedding. This tradition is still preserved today.

In addition to making fires for the holiday on June 21, 2017, young people will gather in nature by the reservoir, have picnics, sing songs, dance and just enjoy life.

Associated with this day folk traditions different countries

Today, December 21, is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the longest in the Southern Hemisphere. The coming night, on the other hand, will be the longest north of the equator. This astronomical event is called the day of the winter solstice. It marks the beginning of an "astronomical winter" in Eurasia, North America and much of Africa, and an "astronomical summer" in Australia and South America.

As explained in the Moscow Planetarium, today the Sun, moving along the ecliptic, will reach the most distant position from the celestial equator towards the South Pole of the world. This event sometimes falls on December 22, but more often - including this year - on the 21st. Today is called "Solstice" because the Sun, which by noon will reach a height of about 11 degrees above the horizon, seems to "freeze" in this position for a while.

The winter solstice - as well as the summer solstice - played a large role in many pagan cultures. Most often it was seen as a symbol of rebirth - from the next day the days begin to grow longer, and in this people saw a symbol of the victory of light over darkness. The holidays associated with this day were not always strictly tied to it from an astronomical point of view, but they were dedicated to this particular phenomenon.

The significance of the winter solstice is evidenced, among other things, by the construction of many ancient archaeological sites - for example, the main axis of Stonehenge in Great Britain is aligned with the visual line indicating the sunset on the winter solstice. In the Slavic tradition, Kolyada is associated with the winter solstice, among the Germanic peoples - Yule, and in Ancient rome the “birthday of the invincible sun” was timed to this event. V Greek mythology the days of the summer and winter solstices were the only ones in the year when Hades was allowed to leave the underworld and appear on Mount Olympus.