{"id":297163,"date":"2025-06-23T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=297163"},"modified":"2025-06-22T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T06:59:51","slug":"21-june-a-joyous-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/21-june-a-joyous-summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"21 June: A Joyous Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Solstice, the longest light of the year, has featured strongly in European folklore and spirituality: a time to worship the deities of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a solstice invocation that we can use:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Radiant Sun above me, illuminate the Path.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 May what be hidden come into the light,\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 nourished by the longest day.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>______________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rene-Wadlow--e1695369695147.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-244689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Rene-Wadlow--e1695369695147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>. He <\/em><em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues, and editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Solstice, the longest light of the year, has featured strongly in European folklore and spirituality: a time to worship the deities of the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297164,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297163\/revisions\/297164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}