Solstice is a turning point. The sun "stops" at its zenith in the summer solstice of late June in the northern hemisphere, and at its nadir in the winter solstice; it is "that curve which forms the golden swing in the sky".
R. Calasso.
In these countervailing extremes of light and darkness is the evocation of a limit reached in the arc of a life, a mood, a capacity, or in the hegemony of consciousness or unconscious. The Midsummer Night of the summer solstice is a night of fairy magic and dream, earth's extravagant, sun-imbibed bloom and the lust and tenderness of lovers.
The book of Symbols - Reflections on archetypal images.
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