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Summer Solstice or Midsummer is the longest day of the year. It is the festival of the Sun's rebirth and a time to honour God when he is at his strongest, highest and brightest. It is a time of celebrating the fertility of the land and the abundance of the earth. Summer Solstice celebrates the joy, warmth and laughter of summer; and signifies the time when Mother Earth is at the fullness of her strength, fertility, and abundance. This book is a guide on how to create your own summer solstice celebration. It offers ideas on various celebrations - inside or outside, with a potluck dinner before or after the celebration. It offers suggestions for the gathering, including how to welcome the fairies, elves, leprechauns when they come out in great numbers on that day to visit our world. You will be guided on how to set up an alter, what candle colours to use, what flowers and herbs and incense works best, and what gemstones and clothing to wear. It will provide detailed information on how to prepare the bonfire, making stick figures and parchment lists to use in the standing stones bonfire ceremonies."As above, so below" and "as without, so within" reflect the understanding that ceremonies are most powerful when the intention and the purpose of the ceremony is to align ourselves with what is occurring within the larger web - the great pattern of the cosmos.