I have wondered when is Mid-summer. I have read Midsummer is June 21. This is confusing since June 21 is also known as first day of summer. How can it be both mid and first? Then I read about a different way to read the seasons from pagan use of cross-quarter days and how they are marked along with equinoxes and solstices. Our calendar has 52 weeks. divide this into four and it is 13 weeks, the approximate time between solstice and equinox. Half way between these are the cross quarter days. May 1, Aug 1, Nov 1, Feb 1. Each of these days have been also named as holidays and most still recognized today. This naming of the cross quarter days also gives marking to seasonal changes. Summer is marked as being from May 1 to Aug 1 putting June 21 as Midsummer. Autumn is marked as Aug 1 to Nov 1 with the eve of Nov 1 being all hallows eve and the beginning of the dead season aka winter. Spring is from Feb 1 which is still recognized by the groundhog trick, and finishes with the May 1 Maypole day. Can you explain where Midsummer is? It suddenly makes so much more sense to me. It also explains why August becomes the beginning of Halloween season as we who love it will have noticed. Happy seasonings.
I have wondered when is Mid-summer. I have read Midsummer is June 21. This is confusing since June 21 is also known as first day of summer. How can it be both mid and first? Then I read about a different way to read the seasons from pagan use of cross-quarter days and how they are marked along with equinoxes and solstices. Our calendar has 52 weeks. divide this into four and it is 13 weeks, the approximate time between solstice and equinox. Half way between these are the cross quarter days. May 1, Aug 1, Nov 1, Feb 1. Each of these days have been also named as holidays and most still recognized today. This naming of the cross quarter days also gives marking to seasonal changes. Summer is marked as being from May 1 to Aug 1 putting June 21 as Midsummer. Autumn is marked as Aug 1 to Nov 1 with the eve of Nov 1 being all hallows eve and the beginning of the dead season aka winter. Spring is from Feb 1 which is still recognized by the groundhog trick, and finishes with the May 1 Maypole day. Can you explain where Midsummer is? It suddenly makes so much more sense to me. It also explains why August becomes the beginning of Halloween season as we who love it will have noticed. Happy seasonings.