By Bob Walsh
Since time immemorial civilized
humans have celebrated the sunrise on Midsummer's Day. It has been
pretty well determined that Stonehenge and many lesser neolithic
monuments were reasonably accurate structures for determining
significant solar events, such as Midsummer's Day and Midwinter's Day.
All
of you who consider yourself civilized should roust your butts out at
dawn and make an appropriate sacrifice to the Sun God. I can't honestly
recommend that you cut the head off your neighbor's cat, even if you
are really mad that the damn thing keeps crapping in your flower beds,
but I can't say it has never been done either.
The
Summer Solstice actually occurs this year at 2:42 UTC (GMT) on
Saturday, June 21, or if you are on the Pacific Coast, 7:42 p.m. on
Friday. In my actual physical location I am running about 4 minutes and
58 seconds later than standard time.
So,
take your choice. Sunrise is traditional but the actual time of the
Solstice at your physical location is acceptable. The Sun God is very
understanding about such things. While you are at it if you make a
sacrifice to Raknar, the god of traffic control devices, he will make
sure you don't get caught at red lights or railroad crossings an
unreasonably long period of time.
Be well. Blessed Be.
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