The star of traditional Irish midsummer – St. John’s Eve on the 23rd of June – is the BONFIRE which turns out to be multi-faceted and multi-purposed, and altogether quite powerful!
Let’s take a leaf out of the traditional Irish playbook and kindle our own fires – of enthusiasm, love, and excitement about being alive.
Tell us in the comments:
1. How do you celebrate Midsummer?
2. Which one of these Irish-inspired ideas will you put into practice to mark this time of abundance, luck, and beauty?
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SOURCES and WORDS
Traditional blessing taken from The Year in Ireland by Kevin Danaher
Dá fháid an samhradh, tagann an geimhreadh = As long as the summer is, the winter comes