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Sad news today for Solstice Watchers at Stonehenge,

the annual ceremony event, not sure what you call it, to mark the midpoint of the year has been

cancelled because of coronavirus. But they are going to stream it online. You may know that we're one of the few podcasts that has a resident druid who joined

us during the election when there was a very significant moon. It's J.J. Middleway.

Hello again, J.J.

Hi, Adam. Good to be back.

Just paint us a picture of what you're going to miss this year.

What actually goes on at Stonehenge on the 21st.

There's a couple of main events. One of them on the morning

morning very early for the dawn on the solstice there are thousands of people

and that's that's one huge event and then that following that the next morning there's a much more private

event where a few druids are allowed into the stones and do and conduct a series of ceremonies,

one at dawn one at midday.

And just remind us why it's so significant in the first place.

Well, the sun goes on a journey all year, and we're just coming through, the sun is gaining in the sky and it's on a north

northward travel and every because we're in the northern hemisphere each day

there's a little bit more sunlight and it's gaining in the heavens and then come the

summer solstice it's at its very height so that's mid-summer because the sun it

ends its journey northward it appears to stand still for three days. That's why it was called

solstice. The soul is sun. Stis is stand still and then it turns and it makes its journey back.

So there's a paradox there.

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