5 Ways to Celebrate the June Solstice - Whether It's Your Midsummer or Midwinter

June 21st, 2022

By Nikki Harper

Staff Writer for Wake Up World

June 21st is the annual June solstice. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, this will be the longest day and shortest night of the year; if you’re in the southern hemisphere, it will be your shortest day and longest night. Midsummer and midwinter respectively.  The symbolism of midwinter and midsummer are very different, but there are some core solstice energies which hold true wherever you are in the world – and it’s these recurring themes, of change, light and intentions, that we can share together.

What is the Solstice?

Every year, there are two solstices, one in June and one in December. These are the moments when the Sun reaches its highest point in its daily path across the sky (as we see it), or its lowest, depending where on earth you are.

During a summer solstice, we receive the maximum hours of daylight for that year – that’s why we call it the longest day and the shortest night. A winter solstice gives us the shortest daylight hours and the longest night of the year.

So, on June 21st in the northern hemisphere, we will see maximum daylight for the year – and thereafter, the days will start to shorten. The September equinox will see roughly equal hours of daylight and night. Then the December solstice brings us our shortest day, and then the daylight grows again through the March equinox until we complete the cycle with the next June solstice. In the southern hemisphere, this cycle is reversed.

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