June

It would seem a strange name for a moon to involve the "strong sun," but the full moon in June rises in a sky still filled with the sun and bright daylight. June is the month of Midsummer's Eve or the Summer Solstice. Ancient Europeans used to celebrate (and modern ones do still) by consuming elderflower tea and honey meade. This is time of the fairies and it was believed that you could catch sight of them more easily on this day than any other.Summer's Solstice is the longest day and the shortest night. But from that day forward the sun's power begins to wain and the dark half of the year begins as the earth tilts on its axis to bring us toward Autumn and the winter months.In her globe she holds a minature sun, the other reaches toward a dragonfly an insect familiar to a summer sky. She wears an armband of oak leaves and an acorn which in the ancient celtic tree alphabet ogham is the symbol of the light half of the year. This is the month to acknowledge all that you have planted and nutured.