T Stands for Summer Solstice at Stonehenge - Part 1, Sunset

A week or so ago, I learned that The English Heritage (they take care of historic sites in England) would host a live streaming of sunset and sunrise on the Summer solstice at Stonehenge via their Facebook page. Stonehenge is a neolithic monument and has been closed to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Visiting Stonehenge is on my bucket list, and this is probably the closest I'll come to a visit. Sunset was at 9:26 PM local time making it 5:26 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time, my time zone.

The feed went live around 4 PM my time. 20. June 2020

Clouds began moving in. In the center, you can see one of the upright sarsen stones and on top a small projection, a tenon. The tenon along with a mortise (hole or groove) holds the lintel stones (horizontal stones) on the uprights.

While not much was going on, I went and got myself a cup of tea. On the right of my computer monitor, you can see the Comment area. People from all over the world were viewing the event. Some left comments mostly about where they were from, others thanking English Heritage for streaming the event, lots of  Blessed Be, ( Wiccan greeting offering good and positive things). Near the end of the event there were approximately 100,00 viewers.

There was no music. The only sounds were of the wind. At times it was eerily quiet and very meditative.

Besides leaving comments, people could also post emoticons. Here a stream of hearts.

 I was fascinated by the birds that flew in and made themselves home on the stones. Some of them were cawing so they were either crows or rooks, or both.

There are a lot of theories as to what Stonehenge is and what it was used for. A stone calendar, a worship site for Druids, a burial site, an ancestral site.

With all the clouds it was apparent that sunset would happen, but we wouldn't be able to see the sun set near the heel stone, a large sarsen stone aligned with sunset/sunrise on the Solstices.

I just loved the bird watching the sunset with the rest of us.

A depression filled with water in one of the smaller, fallen blue stones.

Day is done. Blessed be.

If it wasn't cloudy, this would have been a little what it would look like.

To learn more about Stonehenge and to take a virtual tour, you can visit The English Heritage Stonehenge site.

Next week: Summer Solstice at Stonehenge - Part 2, Sunrise.

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