The festival is primarily a Celtic fire festival, midsummer representing the centre of summer, as well as the shortening with the days on their own gradual drive to wintertime. Midsummer is customarily celebrated about either your 23rd or 24th associated with June, although longest day time actually comes on the 21st of 06. The importance of the day to our ancestors and forefathers can be tracked back thousands of decades, and many stone circles and other ancient monuments are usually aligned towards the sunrise upon Midsummer's Day. One of the most famous positioning is that with Stonehenge, where the sunlight rises within the heel rock, framed with the giant trilithons on Midsummer morning.