Midsummer or Estival Solstice is the 1st day of summer when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky.

The term solstice is derived from the Latin words Sol (sun) and Sistere (to stand still) because the sun’s position at noon does not appear to change much during the solstice and the surrounding days, unlike at other times where the Earth’s tilt causes the sun’s path to rise and fall from one day to the next.

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“this is the solstice,

the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight,

the year’s threshold and unlocking,

where the past lets go of and becomes the future;

the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar…”

― margaret atwood