Spring is in full bloom and we're halfway to summer. May 1, known as May Day, has long been celebrated as the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Like those ...

Finnbarr Webster/Getty The start of a new season is here, so let's celebrate! The 2024 summer solstice arrives on June 20, marking the shortest night and longest day of the year as the Northern ...

(Fittingly, storks return to Europe from Africa about 9 months after the summer solstice.) After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in ...

with the arrival of the summer solstice. So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of ...

Neo-pagan celebrations at Stonehenge gained popularity from the early C20th onwards. The summer solstice is an opportunity to celebrate the long summer days. The winter solstice reminds us that ...

The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule ... Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere will greet summertime with the summer solstice. The extra long night and short day occur ...

Jānis is a Latvian pagan deity, and he’s celebrated at the summer solstice in Riga in Latvia. Local custom dictates that you must spend the shortest night of the year awake, by a bonfire.