June solstice: Cancer ingress
Turning point of the year
The June solstice is the Cancer ingress, literally when the Sun enters the zodiac sign of Cancer.
The word ‘solstice’ means ‘the Sun stands still’, as it reaches the furthest point north on its journey along the horizon. If you’ve never tracked where the Sun rises each morning on the horizon, and noticed how that point changes with the seasons, getting progressively further north or south, then I really invite you to do so! This is the origin of the ancient standing stones, finding these alignments and tracking them over the course of a year (and much more besides, like predicting eclipses, but that’s another story!).
The June solstice is the furthest north that the Sun rises, which is mid-summer in the northern hemisphere, and mid-winter in the southern hemisphere.
And guess what? On that day, the Sun is directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer – that’s how the Tropics got their name, because the solstice marks the moment the Sun moves into the tropical zodiac sign of Cancer (or Capricorn in Dec).
The June solstice is the longest day of summer (northern hemisphere), or the shortest day of winter (southern hemisphere), and after this, the days get shorter (northern hemisphere) or longer (southern hemisphere) as we move towards the September Equinox when day and night are equal once more.
The solstices are the real turning points of the year, and were always celebrated in ancient times, often with bonfires and dancing. Plants especially respond to the change in the length of days, often only germinating either before or after the solstice. If we were more in tune with Nature, especially without artificial light, we’d respond a lot more obviously too!
The solstice is exact on Thurs 22 June 2023 at 00.57am Queensland time (AEST) (the day before in Europe and the Americas).
Happy Solstice celebrations! 🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟
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