Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 3:42 am (UK, summer time)
This is the point in time in the UK for this years solstice.
Def: The summer solstice occurs when Earth reaches the point in its orbit where the North Pole is angled closest to the Sun.
The meaning of the term solstice is to 'stand still'. In old times prior to scientific instrument it was hard to measure the tiny drift north of the suns position compared to the background sky in the last few days as it approached its most northerly position for the year - it appeared to 'stand still'.
There's only a few seconds more daylight and a few seconds less night time on the days before and after a solstice. Think about a tangent as it brushes a curve.
Do not go to Stone Henge. Do not spend a whole day worshipping at a party with new age goons from the 60's who's peers, now largely in Power around the world, are destroying it without being aware of what they are doing.
Get up early, find a high point looking North East and watch the sky
In the UK the sun will not have risen by 3:42 on British Summer Time 'on the clock' (2:42 GMT)
That's OK. Just watch the sky. And remember. Take in that single point in time for a minute, as a moment at 3:42
Why do I think this moment in time is important?
I don't know. But I imagine myself as a primordial human ten thousand years ago standing on a hill of the future England ruled by society? Where the movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars had enormous meaning in my acutely existential life. In those days I had absolute and unconditional freedom. Sure, this came with its risks and lack of guarantees - I might die without warning from multiple threats. So I was very well aware of my obligations to the world - there was no charity, welfare, morals, administration or the law. I gave, for the good of it - 'the giving' would underwrite my survival. The giving was a sort of insurance and I knew, by primordial instinct, that was what these events meant.
The moment in time given by the solstice had a great deal of meaning. Given daily life was existential I had to remain very much 'connected to the earth' as a basic matter of survival. I saw the sun stand still as I watched its daily rise and fall, as a I grew. My feet were well and truly planted, grounded. I could feel where I came from as a normal part of everyday life.
I kind of 'knew'. That when the sun stood still, I had made it through to the height of this cycle. And was well on my way to confidently take on its eventual decline and ready my camp for the cold and shortages.
Humans today, still have this grounding buried deep in their so called genetic make up, in our psyche. We must do. There's been a hundred thousand years of evolution setting it all in concrete. It cannot be escaped except by creating images, 'in the city theatre', which help us escape from the reality of it.
Since we left the land for the city, though we are still inherently grounded to it, we have 'forgotten' where we came from. And are educated and incentivised to forget, where we came from. It feels like forbidden knowledge today, which if discussed puts us at risk, from the wrath of other people who do not want to remember, living hard in the society of the city.
Society 'IS' Power, upheld by the people who constitute it. And society is not grounded to the earth. Yes, it delivers a great deal. And it also takes away, a great deal.
So go out very early tomorrow morning and look at the sky at this moment in time... and remember.