Stonehenge Solstice
35 images Created 22 Jun 2017
Spiritual revellers celebrate the summer Solstice (mid-summer and longest day) at the ancient stones of Stonehenge, on 21st June 2017, in Wiltshire, England. Fifteen thousand attended the 2017 Solstice according to English Heritage.
Pagans say the ancient monument is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
I last came to the solstice here in. the nineties when there were no security in high-vis among the sarcen stones, no bewildered coach tourists, no intense floodlighting, no chewing gum left on stones and definitely no anti-terrorist police.
But now I remember what it's like to be up all day, all night - and now, all day again. I expect the stones will help me heal.
(35 images).
Pagans say the ancient monument is a sacred place that links the Earth, Moon, Sun and the seasons. Built in three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. its purpose remains under study. However, it’s known that if you stand in just the right place inside the monument on summer solstice, through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone.
I last came to the solstice here in. the nineties when there were no security in high-vis among the sarcen stones, no bewildered coach tourists, no intense floodlighting, no chewing gum left on stones and definitely no anti-terrorist police.
But now I remember what it's like to be up all day, all night - and now, all day again. I expect the stones will help me heal.
(35 images).
