Days of the solstice and equinoxes: numbers, dates, how are they different, how many of them are in the year, what kind of folk holidays at this time? Processes and phenomena on the day of the autumn equinox and winter solstice: how to use to harmonize your life?

The meaning of the days of solstice and equinox among the ancestors of the Slavs. Traditions, rites, conspiracies these days.

Children are similar to their parents not only with appearance, but also in the lifestyle. So we, the descendants of the Slavs, even unconsciously feel the importance of certain dates, make mini-explosions, pronounce words-speakers.

No matter how technological progress led us from nature and its processes, genetic memory works on the days of solstice and equinoxes.

We feel the need to communicate with trees, plants, birds and animals, ponds, mountains.

Until our times, in 100%pure form, the rites of the ancestors and the significance of these holidays have not reached. History rewritten so many times, artificial traditions were layered, era changed each other.

Nevertheless, we collect grains of knowledge from the traditions of the peoples of the world, noticing their community and rationality.

Continuing topic Equinox and solstice, go deeper today into their ritual component.

What is the difference between the solstice from the days of the equinox?

There are several differences:

• time of year. We observe the solstice under diametrically opposite natural conditions - in winter and summer. While equinoxes under softer climatic conditions - spring and autumn,
• the duration of the day and night. During equinoxes, they are the same. Under solstices - significantly vary,
• the position of the sun above the horizon. With solstices, it occupies either the highest or most lower point. With equinoxes, the sun is located in the middle between them,
• thermal activity of sunlight. During periods of equinoxes, the hot planet evenly disperses them for the hemisphere into which it moves. With solstices, we fix either the maximum or minimum of solar heat,
• the position of the sun is at the zenith. With solstices, we see it in the tropics of 23.5 ° north or southern latitude. In equinoxes, the sun is strictly on the head of the equatorial region of our planet.

What is the number of summer and winter solstice?

Depending on the year of the solstice, they shift a little.

And also take into account your geographical position. Convications for Greenwich are generally accepted dates and time. Therefore, for your area, consider the right date yourself. If the coordinates of your city east of Greenwich, take the clock. If west - add.

Consider the hemisphere of the planet before determining the date of a single solstice:

• in the north - in June summer, in December winter
• in the South - on the contrary

For the northern hemisphere, the solstice:

• summer falls on 20/21
• winter - December 21/22

What is the number of spring and autumn equinox?

All the nuances listed in the section are relevant for determining the date of equinox in a particular year.

Therefore, in the northern hemisphere of the planet they are noted:

• spring - March 20/21
• autumn - September 22/23

Solstice and equinoxes: what do they mean, according to our ancestors of the Slavs?

Our ancestors had deep and harmonious knowledge, knew how to live in harmony with nature, living beings, space. Interestingly, modern scientists, astronomers, weather forecasters are aware of only meager shares of 1% of those knowledge.

• The days of solstice and equinoxes are not only the cosmic relations of two planets. These phenomena have a deeper sacred meaning.
• The spring equal union marked the arrival of the new fruitful year among the Slavs and the exit time in the field. Winter retreated before the warmth of the spring sun.

In the days of equinoxes, the Slavs especially revered their ancestors who went into the world of Navi. It was believed that these days they fly to descendants in the bodies of birds. Therefore, the latter should have been fed to the spray.

• There was another belief with birds. On the day of the spring equinox, they flew from the south, but the larks were especially revered. They are messengers of spring. Each mistress attracted them, baking sweet cookies in the form of birds. And the children climbed into trees, other high places, sang songs and ate these cookies.
• They ate the entire baked lark, except for the head. It was given to her mothers or crushed birds.

The day of the spring equinox was valuable for programming his fate for good. Especially people of the zodiac fiery signs.

Spring Equal -Office consisted of 2 days:

• vesta's holiday, goddesses of spring
• Shrovetide

The housewives attracted solar heat through the baking of pancakes, cookies with the corresponding signs of a hot luminary.

In the evening, everyone should have sacrificed a straw doll into a sacrificial fire, which was necessarily spoke to the health and well -being of the whole family. Then they jumped through a special fire to cleanse the body and soul from accumulated diseases.

Summer solstice is still celebrated in a number of countries. Our ancestors celebrated the birthday of Perun, one of the formidable gods. He personified the summer sun in the image of a mature man.

Before this date, it was necessary to sow and plant all field/garden crops so that they grow as much as possible. After the summer solstice, their growth ceased. Plants developed from those reserves of valuable substances that they managed to accumulate.

Slavs for the summer solstice:

• we looked for a blooming fern
• let wreaths for fortune -telling about marriage
• collected herbs for medicinal purposes
• read the sun with round dances, songs, launching a burning wheel from the mountain

The autumn equinox was especially revered by the Slavs mainly as the holiday of the harvest and gratitude to nature and the gods for it. Our ancestors were in charge that the vitality of plants passes into seeds and fruits.

On this day:

• celebrated the end of agricultural work,
• ground grain, especially from the first sheaf. They baked a loaf from him, who was eaten on the same day,
• gathered mushrooms,
• burned dry grass,
• unmarried girls wondered on a narrowed one,
• they played weddings. It was believed that the young family would live happily if the guy and the girl are connected to their fate on the day of the autumn equinox,
• they baked a loaf in human growth, which the whole village ate during the holiday,
• we jumped through a fire to cleanse the soul from dark and evil,
• they decorated the rowan branches at home. They protected from the strength of evil and darkness to the spring of all family members,
• they sacrificed a straw bird to the gods. She personified the departure of their ancestors to Iry until spring.

The winter solstice has a contradictory glory. On the one hand, the joy of the start of the priority of the duration of the day after it, fortune -telling and funny festivities, on the other hand, is superstition and fear associated with the longest night of the year.

Our ancestors reacted to the winter solstice as a time when everything in nature slows down and stops for a moment before the launch of a new cycle. And in order not to get stuck at the time of the stop, they burned bonfires all night and wakely until dawn. So the Slavs helped the young sun gain strength and defeat the darkness.

According to legends, the glorious god Perun on this day freed all the ancestors of the Slavs from a foam when he defeated the beast of a scepter in an honest battle. Therefore, the veneration of the ancestors is a mandatory action on the day of the winter solstice.

3 days before and 12 after the winter solstice were considered our ancestors a blessed time for:

• physical healing
• spiritual development
• harmonization of life in all areas
• building intentions for the next year for themselves, family and people

They noted the offensive of the New Year, associating it with the beginning of the processes of the awakening of nature and all the best in man.

What folk holidays are celebrated at this time?

In the days of solstice and equinoxes, the Slavs celebrated a lot of holidays. The latter lasted more than one day, but for a whole week, had their own names, for example, russal, carols.

Such holidays fell on the autumn equinox:

• crop, or Radogosch, or Ovsen
• Fyokla Zarenitsa
• Ryabinkini name day
• Light-impressive, or sun-start-up

On the winter solstice:

• Karachun
• birthday of Kolyada, Kolyaden
• Solstice
• Christmas time

During the spring equinox:

• Magpies
• Krasnogor, or Shrovetide
• vesta Day, Goddesses Spring
• Great

And on the summer solstice:

• Bathing
• the birth of the god Hors/Perun
• Rusalia

Processes and phenomena on the day of the autumn equinox and winter solstice: how to use to harmonize your life?

A person does not close on himself and the family, he is a particle of the planet and space. Therefore, it is especially sensitive to any of their changes.

Winter solstice is characterized by a number of phenomena:

• the sun takes a place on the equator of the galaxy and is broadcast on our planet powerful energy flows from there,
• it reaches the constellation Aquarius. This sign is especially revered by both ancestors and contemporaries. He personifies the craving for knowledge, progress and development,
• periodically parade of planets. Depending on its composition, their energies are rushed to us, connected together in a powerful stream.

Harmonize your life during the winter solstice using:

• physical and mental cleansing practices and procedures
• meditation, pronunciation of special mantras and prayers
• recording desires and intentions for next year
• making amulets for yourself, relatives, houses
• participation in mass festivities in the circle of like -minded people in the open air
• getting rid of all unnecessary - things, objects, emotions, words and habits

Autumn equinox awakens in a person:

• gratitude to the earth and nature for the generous crop
• processes leading to the balance of internal and external life
• preparation for the cold period
• the need to make workpieces for the winter, set up for a period of spiritual improvement

Therefore, the following classes are beneficial on the day of the autumn equinox:

• pronounce thanks to the prayers, mantras to the gods, nature and ancestors,
• clean the physical space of the house and body, your thin shells,
• light candles
• guess for marriage, if you are not there yet,
• participate in the mass festivities of like -minded people in nature. For women, staying near the reservoir is especially beneficial,
• arrange natural amulets in the house and near it.

12 days after the solstice: what desires can be made?

People do not know how to live without desires. And it is better to make them at the right time, which are the days of solstice, especially the winter. It is closer to the new year usual, which means it helps to summarize the results of the lived months and the construction of new intentions for the following. That is, 12 days after the winter solstice symbolize 12 months of the year.

You should know that besides recording your dreams, take care of yourself:

• thoughts and experiences
• words
• actions and behavior
• events in his own and the life of relatives/friends

Be sure to clean the housing and rubbish of your soul from all the obsolete, unnecessary until the day of the winter solstice. Thank all people, events for lessons and leave in the past. After that, proceed to the formation of desires.

All of the above will be a pattern, dynamics, fullness of your next year for months. Interestingly, the 10th day of planning falls on January 1. Therefore, think about whether you need October, which will fall out of life next year after a cheerful New Year's feast.

We note a number of important points when making desires and dreams after the day of the winter solstice.

• Concentrate on your true desires, and not imposed by society. Exclude material "Wishlist".
• Formulate your dreams correctly. Not just in the style of “I want”, but for what, that the realization of this will give me for the development of personality/soul.

A few examples:

• get a car in order to spend more time with relatives/parents/grandparents more often,
• to visit the specific holy places of India/Russia, pray there about your relatives/friends,
• to visit Bali, go barefoot around a specific sacred place,
• read such and such scriptures in order to figure out something,
• harmonize your life, saying goodbye to such bad habits,
• develop femininity through classes of oriental dances, needlework,
• write a book about this that will be useful to such people.

If you have not performed such actions before, read the books of famous authors who understand the topic. Their practical tips will help to launch your imagination and mind.

Rituals and conspiracies in the days of equinox and solstice

The period of the winter solstice is perhaps the most mystical in terms of making desires and farewell to obsolete things/situations. We offer several rituals.

Ritual with a sheet of paper:

• divide it in half
• in one part, write everything you want to part with, in the second - what to attract into your life,
• go out into the street, tear off part of the sheet where you indicated the list for parting. Torn it into small pieces and defeat it in the wind,
• attach the second part of the sheet to the mirror, in which you look every morning,
• over the next 12 days in the morning and evening, read aloud the following conspiracy:
  “The day blooms with a rainbow, in happiness the door opens me. What I wish - I get everything, I let my love into life. "

Pray for the well -being of the entire planet and every living creature. Below Text:

Still conduct a ritual for welfare, attracting monetary energy:

• lay out 9 coins on the tray
• light candles
• say the words
  “From this day, the day arrives, spilling with rain on my money. Let wealth come with sunlight! ”
• decorate the Christmas tree with red toys and golden tinsel
• during the pronunciation of the words of the conspiracy, the pink candle should burn

Create amulets from weaving threads. The more nodules made in creative mood, the more good and well -being will enter your life.

Although the autumn equinox is a reference point to increase the duration of the night, our ancestors performed a number of rituals to harmonize life, pronounced conspiracies. For example:

• for marriage. The girl should washed before dawn following the autumn equalniotic of the day. Then she will definitely be scared until next fall,
• for the house, the amulets from the ears of wheat, potassium, mountain ash, and branches of pine were weaved. They connected with a red thread and suspended above the front door until the next autumn equinox,
• cleaning the space of home and life. It was carried out by burning the obsolete of their eyelids/objects.

And pronounce the conspiracies:

The spring equinox carries the power of revival and faith in bright forces. Therefore, the rituals on:

• attraction of welfare
• farewell to the past - emotions, events, people
• testament desire

Below in the picture a description of the execution of some:

On the day of the summer solstice, the sun has maximum healing power. Therefore, the rituals on:

• health strengthening the collection of herbs
• protection of oneself using amulets and amulets made
• attracting love and its strengthening if you are already married
• obtaining tips about future events in life, for example, with the help of fortune -telling by runes
• cleaning all thin bodies. Perform it in the evening, jumping over the fire

Below in the pictures there are several examples of rituals and conspiracies during the summer solstice.

Our ancestors were extremely careful in words and thoughts. They weighed what they were going to pronounce for the benefit of the addressee. Therefore, be careful during the commission of rituals with conspiracies. Follow the principle of "do not harm".

So, we met closer to each of the days of equinox and solstice, their meaning, strength and content. We learned how to make desires, correctly fulfill the rites.

Open your hearts. Feel them the importance and significance of events on these important days of the year. Learn to love nature and people!

Video: Strength of life. Summer solstice practices