Wedding Goddess Wisdom

Rejoice!

If you are in Las Vegas to tie the knot or renew your vows this Wednesday, June 21, you've made a very lucky choice. It’s summer solstice … the longest day of the year, a time when the sun is at the height of it’s power and good vibrations abound.

“Awed by the great power of the sun, world civilizations for many centuries have celebrated the Summer Solstice - otherwise known as Midsummer,” according to Chiff.com. “The Celts and Slavs celebrated with dancing and bonfires to help increase the sun's energy, the Chinese marked the day by honoring Li, the Chinese Goddess of Light, and the Druids celebrated it as the wedding of Heaven and Earth, resulting in the enduring modern custom of a "lucky" wedding in June.”

Because the midsummer celebration marks the center of the year, a complete six months away from winter solstice, it is viewed as an aspect of yin-yang, male-female. The two points of the year, together, are considered the marriage of heaven on earth.

It is a time of year that celebrates the rites of summer and encourages people to fall in love and consume each other in fiery summer passion. It happens in the Northern hemisphere each year on or around June 21.

The solstice evokes a sense of divine summer love. It is one of the reasons June is considered one of the most sacred months to wed. (That, and the fact that the month is named after Juno, Roman Goddess of Marriage).