This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.
I don’t think it is a convention anywhere but very very far north. For the majority of people living in the Northern hemisphere by far, as in almost everyone, it has been some for some time now.
This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.
I like to think it begins when the ritual does.
Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.
I don’t think it is a convention anywhere but very very far north. For the majority of people living in the Northern hemisphere by far, as in almost everyone, it has been some for some time now.