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b"Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com\\n\\xa0\\nS3E22 TRANSCRIPT:----more----\\nMark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science-based Paganism. My name is Mark, and I'm one of your hosts.\\nYucca: And I'm Yucca.\\xa0\\nAnd today we're talking about the upcoming atheopagan or a neo pagan Sabbath, which is mid-summer or the summer solstice which is an important station on the wheel of the year. That's celebrated by many pagans all over.\\nYucca: Right. And as always, it's amazing that we are here already, right. That also marks the halfway through the year.\\xa0\\nMark: Right, right. And this is the third episode that we've done on the mid summer holidays. So, if you're really hungry for lots more content on. On Midsummer, you can go back into our archives and look for those other episodes as.\\xa0\\nYucca: Right. And will probably echo many of the things that we've said. No, both of us have been doing our practices for a long time. And this is one of the big ones that we're that we have a lot of experience and time in. But of course, every year there's going to be something new. There's going to be something fresh to say as well.\\nSo we're going to assume that folks haven't heard the past ones, or if you have fit, whole year has gone by. So we're going to talk about all that again.\\xa0\\nMark: Yeah. Think of it as a refresher, if you've heard the other one.\\nYucca: Well, that's, one of the lovely things about the wheel of the year is that you get to do it again and again, right. You do it. It's not one.\\ntime only. And then that's it, right? It's not like one of these rites of passages where, you become an adult once, that's it,\\xa0\\nMark: Yeah. And you've got to get the ritual, right. That one time, right? A little forgiving.\\nYucca: But this, this is something that happens again and again, and every year there's things that are similar things that are a little bit different.\\nSo let's, let's actually start by talking about what is the solstice and Midsummer and all of that.\\xa0\\nMark: Well, let's start with the word. The word solstice means the sun stops. And what, what that means in this particular context is that from the perspective. Being on the surface of the earth, the sun's movement towards the north,\\xa0\\nYucca: From the Northern hemisphere\\xa0\\nMark: the Northern hemisphere reaches its peak on the summer solstice. It gets as high as it's going to go and it kind of stops there for a couple of days.\\nAnd then it starts to retreat back to the self on its way towards the winter souls.\\nYucca: Right. And of course, if you are in the Southern hemisphere, it's going to be, the solstices are going to be reversed from the perspective of the Northern hemisphere. Right.\\xa0\\nMark: Right, but it still moves. It still moves to the north end to the south. It's just that moving to the south actually means rather than\\xa0\\nYucca: Yes. Yeah. Just because of think about the, the equator. And so part of what's happening is the, when we zoom out, right? So that's our explanation from being here on the earth, right. As part of the earth, but, just imagine yourself pulling out the camera, zooming back, and we're looking at earth as this planet.\\nOrbiting around our star and we're orbiting around it on a plane, but that plane doesn't match with the tilt of our planet. And that's where we're getting all of our solstices and equinoxes. And all of that is from the relationship between the two planes from there, the ecliptic and the equatorial plane\\xa0\\nMark: So what ends up in of course, one of the effects of that is seasons\\xa0\\nYucca: Yes.\\xa0\\nMark: because climate is dramatically affected by the amount of sunlight and the intensity of sunlight that reaches the surface of. And of course, the heat conviction from that drives weather. It's a very important part of our evolution as life on earth.\\nIt's almost unimaginable. What, how different life on earth would have to be if it, if we didn't have those seasons.\\nYucca: Right. And it's particularly noticeable for"