The festival is primarily a Celtic fire event, midsummer representing the center of summer, and the shortening from the days on their gradual march to winter. Midsummer is usually celebrated on either the particular 23rd or perhaps 24th regarding June, even though longest evening actually is catagorized on the 21st of Summer. The importance of the morning to our forefathers can be traced back multitudes of a long time, and many natural stone circles along with other ancient monuments are usually aligned towards the sunrise upon Midsummer's Day. By far the most famous positioning is that with Stonehenge, where the sunlight rises in the heel stone, framed with the giant trilithons about Midsummer morning.