{"id":113,"date":"2014-06-20T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-06-20T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T09:08:04","slug":"summersolsticemeaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/summersolsticemeaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice Esoteric Meaning, Knights Templar Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Summer<\/a>
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ishtar<\/a>
Ishtar Goddess of Syria and Babylon (modern Iraq) May she bring peace to her homeland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Summer Solstice!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Longest day of the year, a day most chosen to get married. This is the holy day opposite earth’s orbit from Christmas, the\u00a0solar “birth” holidays. Luckily this is not a solar “death” holiday, although some in the “Dark Side” of the spiritual world do think of this day as a “death of god” day, the idiots. Never will understand the hardcore darkside — as if they would survive if the sun didn’t?!<\/p>\n

Look at all the Goddesses connected to the Summer Solstice holiday. Some of them\u00a0are from homelands in the news\u00a0today.\u00a0Iraq is certainly in the news currently, as is Syria. We\u00a0have Ishtar,\u00a0the Babylonian and Syrian goddess who gave her name to Easter, and whose birthday is considered Summer Solstice.\u00a0 Brazil and the World Cup are also\u00a0in the news, and is represented by Yemaya, the Brazilian goddess honored on Summer Solstice.<\/p>\n

Scroll on down to see the ancient Egyptian holiday, Roman holiday (this was Hera’s Day!), and even Native American,\u00a0ancient Hindu,\u00a0and Druid holidays. This is quite a day worldwide and has been for millennia.<\/p>\n

June 21<\/b>: \u00a0Summer Solstice<\/span><\/span><\/a> (Click for more info on this ancient holiday)\u00a0 Here are all the deities — many Sacred Feminine ones — connected to this holy day through the ages.<\/p>\n

– Day of Cerridwen and her Cauldron (English\/Welsh)<\/p>\n

– Day of Aine of Knockaine (Irish)<\/p>\n

– Day of the Green Man (Northern Europe)<\/p>\n

– The Great Mother (British)<\/p>\n

– Alban Hefin (Druidic)<\/p>\n

– Waa-Laa Ends (Native American)<\/p>\n

– Litha (Wiccan)<\/p>\n

– All Hera’s Day (Roman)<\/p>\n

– Ishtar’s Day (Babylonian)<\/p>\n

– Astarte’s Day (Canaanite)<\/p>\n

– Aphrodite’s Day (Greek)<\/p>\n

– Yemaya’s Day (Brazilian)<\/p>\n

– Aine’s Day (Irish)<\/p>\n

See also notes here<\/span><\/span><\/a> about June Solstice holidays, including the other days coming after it.<\/p>\n

June 23<\/b>: Celtic Day of the Green Man – In honor of Herne, Cernernos, Lugh.<\/p>\n

\"Knights<\/a>
The Knights Templar Revered John the Baptist and were said to have preserved his head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 24<\/b>: \u00a0TEMPLAR HOLY DAY. In the Roman calendar this day was thought to be Summer Solstice. \u00a0The Church renamed this pagan holiday to St. John the Baptist Day. Templars revered it highly. \u00a0On Jun 24, 1314 a mysterious band of knights joined Robert the Bruce of Scotland on the battlefield making his victory at Bannockburn possible. \u00a0These knights could only have been the a troop of disbanded and now in-hiding Templars who had fled to western Scotland. \u00a0St. John’s day was used by Freemasons in 1717 to found the first public (non-Scottish) Order of Freemasonry in London. \u00a0Masonic teachings are said to descend from the esoteric Christianity of Templarism. \u00a0St. John the Baptizer was beheaded because he wouldn’t give in and sacrifice his principles. \u00a0This is a Templar ideal, as is the constancy and regularity — order out of chaos — of the solstices and equinoxes. \u00a0So for both reasons, Christian and “pagan,” we observe this day. See also notes here<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Feast of the Sun (Aztec)<\/p>\n

– Feast of St. John the Baptist<\/p>\n

– Midsummer Bride (Swedish)<\/p>\n

– Inti Raymi (Incan)<\/p>\n

– Lady Luck (European)<\/p>\n

– Burning of the Lamps at Sais (Egyptian)<\/p>\n

June 25<\/b> – Parvati Praise Day – Hindu Women’s Festival for Earth Mother.
\nJune 27<\/b> – Roman Day of the Lares – Household Deities honored and tended
\n– Initium Aestatis (Roman)
\n– Arretophoria (Greek)<\/p>\n

June 28<\/b> – Festival of the Tarasque (French)
\nJune 29<\/b> – Shiva Day – Hindu Lord of the Dance invoked for blessings
\n– Runic New Year
\n– Petosiris’ Day (Egyptian)
\n– St. Peter’s Day
\n– Herb Harvesting Day (East Anglican)<\/p>\n

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Summer Solstice! Longest day of the year, a day most chosen to get married. This is the holy day opposite earth’s orbit from Christmas, the\u00a0solar “birth” holidays. Luckily this is not a solar “death” holiday, although some in the “Dark Side” of the spiritual world do think of this day as a “death of god” … Continue reading Summer Solstice Esoteric Meaning, Knights Templar Holiday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8,2],"tags":[41,43,42],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divinemother","category-holydays","category-kt","tag-ishtar","tag-knights-templar","tag-summer-solstice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}