The First Day of Summer

17 Nur 163 B.E. – June 20 – 21, 2006 A.D.

It’s the first day of summer, Summer Solstice, Midsummer, the longest day of the year and the shortest night in the Northern hemisphere. Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Vernal Equinox, and Autumnal Equinox mark the Earth’s season and all relate, in some way, to a religious celebration somewhere on the planet. Even those of us who don’t celebrate a religious holiday today, use the Summer Solstice to mark a transition between seasons.

Since the Winter Solstice, in the northern hemisphere, the days have gotten longer and longer, while the nights became shorter and shorter. This situation now reverses itself and the hours of darkness will slowly expand over the next few months until the seasons come full circle and the process begins again. While in the southern hemisphere the process is precisely opposite, of what it is in the north.

The Earth orbits the sun, the season’s change, while humanity makes love and fights wars. A never-ending circle it seems, but eventually peace will come to the planet. World peace, like the change of seasons is inevitable. Peace on Earth is not a pipe dream, but the culmination of a long and natural process. Humanity itself is being transformed; it’s becoming a citizen of its own planet.