The best quotes for the first day of Summer and Summer Solstice give us deeper insights into the season. Use these insights to inspire your own Summer Solstice rituals and celebration. And then enjoy practicing them all Summer long.
Summer Solstice Quotes #1 and 2: Appreciating Longer Sunny Days
. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . . —Henry David Thoreau
I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower. For me that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life. —Helen Mirren
The fiery sun is the source of all human life. The cycle of human life revolves around it. Most of us take sun for granted. We rarely pause to appreciate its never-ending life-giving nature.
The Summer solstice event is an opportunity for us to honor and harness the energy of the sun and its aspects. We can become part of and expand our consciousness of this highly energetic solar event.
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Summer Solstice Quote #3 and 4: Light versus Dark
Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives. —Gary Zukav
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
The word solstice comes from the Latin words sol (sun) and stitium (still or stopped). The ancients, even as early as the Stone Age, noticed that as Summer progressed, the sun stopped moving northward in the sky as it began to track southward with Summer advancing to Autumn.
The Summer solstice occurs every year on the 20th or 21st. On this day the sun is at its highest point in the sky and marks the longest day and shortest night of the year. Now is the start of astronomical summer and the tipping point when days start to become shorter and nights longer.
Summer Solstice Quote #5 and 6: For Evolving Yourself
Give like the sun and the whole world grows tall. —Atticus
The great gift of the energy of the Summer Solstice is that it’s designed to move you from one phase to the next on your terms.
—Deborah King
Summer Solstice is always powerful for elevating us to new heights spiritually and vibrationally. Its energy pushes us to experience the spirituality and meaning of the solstice and its energy. Though the Summer Solstice heralds a period of great activity, this solitary day creates a window for introspection and presence.
The numerology of the solstice event contains 6s and 2s.
Take a look at the date June 20, 2020. The number 6 symbolizes the energy of healing and of Gaia or Earth in an uplifted frequency.
The number 2 is the number representing the divine feminine energy of wisdom and healing. The energy of healing lives strong in both numbers.
Many of the healing crystals associated with the number 6 for the month of June are red. Red’s the color of energetic Summer according to traditional Chinese medicine.
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One red crystal is bloodstone. It repels negative environmental energy. The stone can help shield you from geopathic and electromagnetic stress. It’s very grounding.
Red carnelian is good for ahot and fiery spirit and root chakra balance. It can support you to take bold necessary action.
Then there’s red jasper. Use it for spiritual grounding and connection to the Earth.
Red onyx will support you to communicate with the unseen high spiritual realm. It can also get you more grounded to Earth.
Approximately 800 years ago, Wyoming plains native Americans built the famed 80-foot wide Bighorn stone Medicine Wheel. It was built with 28 spokes. One pointed to the Summer Solstice sunrise and the other to the Summer Solstice sunset.
Chumash Indians of California bored carefully placed holes in walls and ceilings of caves. They used these holes to view the Summer Solstice light.
Anazazi Indians of New Mexico painted two spirals on a rock in Chaco Canyon. At noon on the Summer Solstice a beam of light pointed to the center of one of the spirals.
In Central America, the Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs built great temples aligned to the moment of the Summer Solstice sunrise.
In the Mayan city of Chichén Itza in Mexico, stands the Spiral Tower. The ancient Mayans built it with windows and doors oriented to the rising and setting sun at both Solstices and Equinoxes.
At the ancient Mayan observatory Uaxactún in the Guatemalan rainforest, present day viewers can welcome the Summer on a viewing platform. There they view the sun rise over a series of small pyramids, an astronomy cluster of four structures, built in exact alignment with the great solar event.
The Summer Solstice was the most important day of the year in ancient Egypt. This is when the waters of the Nile would begin to rise. From the view of the Sphinx, the sun sets squarely between the Great Pyramids of Khufu and Khafre on Egypt’s Giza plateau on the Summer Solstice.
Summer Solstice Quote #7: Sun, the Giver of Life
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. ― Napoleon Bonaparte
Ancient Europeans joyfully celebrated the Summer Solstice with flower head wreaths, games and bonfires. They believed the bonfires boosted the sun’s energy for the rest of the growing season, guaranteeing a good harvest for Fall.
Stonehenge, neolithic megalith monument in the South of England, is very associated with the Summer Solstice. Archeologists have long debated Stonehenge’s actual purpose, function and origin of Stonehenge. But the site happens to align with the direction of the Summer Solstice sunrise.
The ancient Chinese associated the Summer Solstice with yin energy, the feminine force. Their festivities celebrated Earth, femininity, and the yin force.
According to some ancient Greek calendars, the Summer Solstice marked the start of the New Year. They also used it to mark the one-month countdown to the opening of the Olympic games.
Summer Solstice Quote #8 and 9: Reverencing Summer’s Luxurious Growth
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude pressed against my lips. —Violette Leduc in Mad in Pursuit
It was June and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. —Maud Hart Lovelace
In the days leading up to the Summer Solstice, the ancient Romans celebrated Vestalia to honor Vesta, goddess of the hearth. This is when married women left offerings in the temple of Vesta as pleas and prayers for blessings for their families.
The Vikings found Midsummer a pivotal time of year. This is when they met to discuss legal matters and resolve disputes.
Cultures around the world still celebrate the Summer Solstice with feasts, bonfires, picnics and song.
Today, people dance around bonfires that blaze on hilltops in Cornwall, Wales and Ireland. Yoga centers and spiritual circles around the world usher in the Solstice with drumming and chanting.
Each one of us has the individual opportunity to dive deeper into life and the energies of the Summer season. We can use the Summer Solstice as a powerful window that helps us align with Summer’s energies.
One way to do this is to intimately experience the darkness of the preceding night. It can help us more fully know and appreciate the light of the Summer Solstice sun the next morning.
Summer Solstice Quote #10 and 11: Rituals for Starting Life Over Again
Not only is there the Summer Solstice, there is a full moon. May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day. —William Shakespeare
And so the with sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. —F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here’s a list of simple yet powerful rituals and celebrations to help you usher in the Summer Solstice in a more conscious way.
Eat simply throughout the day leading up to evening.
In the evening, turn out all the lights in your home.
Unplug your television, computer, and all electrical devices.
Light candles.
Go outside, outstretch your arms and breathe in the night air.
Summer Solstice Quote #12: Remembering the Moon
At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. —Edgar Allan Poe
Take in the poignancy of the moon’s hushed stillness.
Take a long walk during this evening. Notice the stars and the clouds.
Light a fire outside, if possible. If you don’t have a firepit, use a portable grill.
Play an instrument fireside if you can.
Sing or chant quietly and reverentially.
Bake potatoes in the fire you built.
Lay down on a blanket near the fire and doze.
Go back inside and read a book by candlelight.
Take time to sit in silence.
Wake up before dawn (6:02 a.m.) to be ready to greet the rising sun.
Feel the energy and the presence of your ancestors.
Relish the power of the rising sun.
Sing a song or whisper a prayer of honor of the dawn.
Summer Solstice Quote #13: Sun, Love, Light
May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on. —Snatam Kaur
I welcome the sun into my life
And give thanks for its daily bounty:
For its warmth to bless me,
For its strength to empower me,
For its light to illuminate my way.
I do this in the knowledge
That its light is also the light
Of wonder and holy wisdom,
Blessings I make welcome
In the pattern of my days.
—John Matthews
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Endnotes:
Editors, History.com. “Summer Solstice.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 10 Aug. 2017, www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/history-of-summer-solstice.
Matthews, John. The Summer Solstice: Celebrating the Journey of the Sun from May Day to Harvest. Godsfield, 2005.