The event is primarily any Celtic fire festival, midsummer representing the center of summer, and also the shortening from the days on his or her gradual march to wintertime. Midsummer is traditionally celebrated about either your 23rd or perhaps 24th associated with June, even though the longest evening actually comes on the Twenty first of 06. The importance of the day to our ancestors can be followed back thousands of years, and many stone circles and also other ancient monuments are generally aligned to the sunrise about Midsummer's Day. Essentially the most famous alignment is that at Stonehenge, where the sunlight rises in the heel stone, framed from the giant trilithons on Midsummer morning.