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Summer Solstice
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Pearce's most recent ambient work, Summer Solstice, is a marked continuation of the sounds explored on To the Shores of Heaven, and is a much more satisfying follow-up to that excellent album than The Light Beyond. On Summer Solstice, a light, floating sensation fills the listener from the first moments of track one, "The Longest Day." This is the sound of lying back on a grassy hill with sun in eyes. It's hard to decide exactly how Pearce instills a spiritual feeling (and what sort of spiritual feeling it is can ... be a source of mystery) in his music, but that feeling is strong and oceanic, as if you have somehow viewed an unchanging truth about the universe--this knowledge is important, but its application is unknowable.
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To help facilitate your attendance at Summer Solstice, pre-registration is available online at www.3ho.org. On site registration will be open starting June 15th from 1 – 9 p.m. On Tantric days registration will only be open in the mornings. Early arrival at Ram Das Puri must be approved via the 3HO office in advance.
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This Summer Solstice is ... highlighted by an opposition with Pluto. Pluto is currently approaching a conjunction with the Winter Solstice. This is the first time in more than 250 years that Pluto has aligned with this point in the zodiac. The importance of Pluto's position is made even more significant by the fact that the Winter Solstice has reached alignment with the Galactic Equator.
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The Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, takes place on June 21st. This same day is the Winter Solstice, and the shortest day of the year for people living in the Southern Hemisphere. In Alaska, and other countries near the North Pole, the days are longest, and inside the Arctic Circle (which is at latitude 66° 33’, and North of Fairbanks by about 125 miles), the sun never really sets - even at midnight! Hence the name, Midnight Sun.
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The Summer Solstice is ... known as St. John's Day and Midsummer. It is the longest day of the summer. From this day the hours of light slowly begin to short. The Full Moon, Noontime and the Summer Solstice mark times of high energy and the beginning of a cycle of work consolidation.
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The summer solstice long ago was incorporated into the Christian calendar as the feast day of St. John the Baptist. Just as John was the forerunner to Jesus, midsummer forecasts the eventual arrival of the seasonal turn of mid winter. Hundreds of years ago throughout Europe, most healers were women who used herbs. In the twelfth century, Hildegard of Bingen wrote a book of natural healing and herbal methods. It became the basis of modern western herbalism and medicine. Not long after publication, the Inquisition began and nine million women were executed for witchcraft.
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