the month of June 2010
June is a month when the Time has mood swings like the famous Juno which, according to one of the most reliable interpretations, it is named, referring to the practice common among the Romans, to dedicate to God the months of their calendar .
Juno, goddess of fertility, equated Hera in Greek, symbolizes the union of principles lunar and solar. Daughter of Saturn and Rhea, she was both sister and wife of Jupiter and mother of Vulcan and Mars. How do you think it does not trigger the wrath? Moreover, she was jealous and vindictive, and a cantankerous character. Not to mention his disputes with Jupiter! Juno often put trouble in Olympus. The nymph Chelonia, Queen of the Pygmies Pigas, girls Proctus, the nymph Callisto, the shepherd Paris, the nymph Echo, were as much victims of his bad character. The first was transformed into a turtle, as she had Late marriage Juno. The second was changed into a crane for having dared to look at it. The next two were changed in heifers when they proclaimed themselves the best, or even into a bear! June invites us back into the mythology. If you walk in the park of Versailles you will find all the nymphs and goddesses and their allegories, including the famous Latona Basin.
June is the month of marriages and mothers because of the reference to Hera and maturity that she symbolizes. Quantities of popular beliefs and legends arising including, for example, the tradition existing in the temple of Juno that women who wanted their hair by separating their hair in two, theoretically with the tip of a spear, symbolizing the fusion of lunar and solar principles. This is probably the origin of this hairstyle for girls is called the quilts!
June is a month that blows hot and cold and its disturbances are the result of the influence of the moon in its course around the earth as it is increasing or decreasing or gibbous, rising or falling, at its apogee or perigee.
Who has not watched the weather almost systematically during the tournament at Roland Garros and then in early June? It is well known that a period has been dubbed "Europe monsoon" and we have a beautiful demonstration this year.
Twenty proverbs at least curse the rain in June and its misdeeds including oats that are harvested this month. " Rain in June is nice and thin oat hay " or: "Beautiful changes the June grass hay beautiful."
In our traditional rural France, and until recently (1950-1960) the horse was the indispensable aid of man, the passenger and the warrior, the merchant and peasant. Hence the importance of oats!
But what proverb quote that has its opposite? " In June the rain stays away, and if it rains, every drop is like a fist " or " June weep makes merry peasant . In general the June rain is pretty bad, especially if it is persistent and is accompanied by a deficit of heat. It then causes the degeneration of rotting fruit and flowers not pollinated. Under the action of rains, the pollen is driven and " flows. Then there will be no grapes (this is not the case this year, for the moment!) No wheat, so no bread. And if " June rainy empty cellars and attics ", "From June evening breeze, for grain is hopeful . If the rain is accompanied by heat, the fate of the crop is very different: "Prepare much of barrels of days in June will be fine .
Who does not know the famous Saint Medard? This is the holy calendar's most celebrated by the verve " sayings": "If it rains to St. Medard, it will rain forty days later! . This saying dates from the eleventh century. At that time, still lived under the calendar "Julian . The St. Medard was then located June 20, near the summer solstice, a time when sunlight is the most invigorating, and when the astronomical influences may lead to atmospheric disturbances resulting in thunderstorms and rain. If it's sunny or rainy that day, the conditions of the season probably will be affected. This strong belief was so strong, so weather bases. With the changes under the pontificate of Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, the St. Medard was a good back and rain has lost the importance that popular adages continue to lend. St. Barnabas was then introduced to give a restrictive meaning to the sayings of St. Medard. But the automatic die hard!
Saint Medard was a Picard, born in Salency, in 457 and became bishop of Noyon. The legend says that, every young child he was noted for his great compassion for the poor and unfortunate. One day he met a blind beggar who was almost naked, he stripped off his coat to clothe. Punished by his parents for his charitable gesture, he stood outside naked. Then came a violent storm, often in these times. It remained well under the rain without getting wet. They say even with different versions of an eagle protected him his wings. Thence to make a "merchant umbrellas" as in Belgium or Britain ... or make the agent of the celestial waters, there is a step that centuries have passed. History has kept track, the more true it seems, a bishop, consecrated in 530 by St. Remi, who ran tirelessly, despite his advanced age (for the time! 72 years) - the villages, towns and hamlets in the region, preaching, administering sacraments and rescuing the unfortunate. He died at the age of eighty-seven. It is the day of his death it is celebrated. One can not accuse him of that which does not concern him. Rain or shine is due to the impact of the lunar cycle. His feast and sayings that accompany are only mnemonic device. " Quan ploou people Medar year, the recolto empouerto a neighborhood; ploou quan pa N'empouerto the mita. ( When it rains for St Médard, harvesting missing quarter, when it does not rain, it misses half ).
It must also speak Barnabas of his friend: "When it rains to St. Medard, if it does not close Barnabas its beak, it rained forty days! "This justifies the phrase:" The feast of St. Barnabas (June 11), is the happiest day of the year . "For he who comes:" Cut grass underfoot "of his friend, called the" great Pissard "and" buttoned up his trousers . To make it for his fellow Medard, it is said that Barnabas was " dealer umbrellas!
Barnabas is an extraordinary character. He was a Jew from the tribe of Levi and in fact lived on the island of Cyprus. If he does not know Christ, he converted very early. His name was Joseph and his name was then changed to Barnabas, meaning "son of consolation " it was he who ushered Paul, another converted Jew, in the closed circle of the first Apostles, the Galileans. He died probably in Cyprus and probably martyr.
We will certainly have a few weather disturbances around these two dates because new moon in June 2010 begins on the 12th, then it will be at the point closest to us - at perigee - 15 , and his race around the earth to cut the Earth's orbit is called a lunar node 13 to pass a curve rising to a declining trend while it is growing. The passage of the moon at one and the other of these phases is always a sign of disturbance and this has proved each time since the beginning of this year. The influence of the moon!
June 21, the day of the solstice - this time it is the sun - the longest day of the year, note the point on your horizon where the sun rises, and when he folds. It is a good benchmark to know. He was at the most northern point of its travel. The full moon of December will follow the same path! Venus, pale evening star, the beautiful morning star, shining at the moment, in the sails of the setting sun, a little over two hours after sunset.
The arrival of summer has always had a close relationship with music. By creating this day festival of Music, a former minister always popular simply repeated the old story that when the solstice took place on June 24, under the calendar "Julian" was originally notes range. In the XIth century, Guy, a monk of Arezzo (990 - 1050), sought both a rating system (which is the origin of the musical staff) and a coding system of musical intervals, imagined what 'is meant today by the word "end". Beginning of "tetrachord" of the Greeks, (lyre four-stringed instrument of the god Mercury), who used it to divide the octave into two parts (for example, in the Dorian mode: E, D, F, C, if / A, G, F, E) and noting that in some modes, tetrachords overlap (for example, in the Ionian mode or hypophrygien: G, F, E, D / D, C, so, la), Guy d'Arezzo added an additional, lower than the last, and he designated by the Greek letter gamma, thus the word range.
The notes were then designated by the first letters of the alphabet. He named the notes of the scale of the initial syllables of each verse of the hymn of Vespers of the Feast of St. John the Baptist to make it more easy to remember /
Ut queant laxis
Re sonare fibers
Mi ra gestorum
Fa muli tuorum
Sol ve pollut
The bii reatum
S ancte I Oannes .
This means approximately: (For that can resonate across the strings of our lips relaxed, the wonders of your actions, takes away the sin of thy servant, unclean, O St. John ! ) and has little to do with music itself!
This historical detail is well known to lovers of good music, even if some researchers are trying a new approach, most recently in 1988 and M. Viret Chailley in La Revue Musicale, which would otherwise interpret the origin of the note names. It would be a shame to erase this beautiful story!
Music is so much at the heart of the solstice and the celebration of the great St. John, well before the recent creation of the Fête de la Musique.
This beautiful summer party is when the sun shines the longest. It replaced the pagan festivals of the summer solstice and the bonfires that are lit across the countryside.
Solstice, as far as the feast of St. John, refer to the light, which has earned us the tradition of the fires of St. John on the evening of 23 June, a tradition that has continued through the centuries and even today in our campaigns. Only drought and fire hazards disrupt these old customs.
fires are considered protectors of crops and smoke supposed to purify the dancers and livestock. Future households declare that evening, we readily crosses the lights because they are said pollinators. The ashes and embers are expected to ensure lightning or fire and treat eye diseases. It carries a torch of fire on St. John at home, to protect the house from lightning.
The tradition of St. John the lights on the evening of June 23 has been perpetuated over the centuries, although the Council of Agde in 506, tried to impose order Christian . In Paris, the King of France himself lit the fire of St. John. Once in America, the first French settlers continued this practice on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, and about 1638 became the John Day New France. Today, June 24 is the national holiday of Quebec. In our French campaigns, custom fire was maintained throughout. Even in Paris! The beautiful country of Roussillon fire down the majestic Canigou to Perpignan and the opportunity to fine festivals throughout the region.
It was during the summer solstice that the products of the earth, plants for example, contain more solar energy. Also, it is this period that gather the plants that fight fire, that is to say, burns. These are the famous " herbs of St. John " of which there are three dozen, mostly with St. John's wort, which protects the thunder, the devil hunting and improves eyesight; sagebrush " belt John " stonecrop " pepper wall " verbena who have the power to protect against nightmares the immortal" herb St. Pierre " the fern that blooms at midnight sharp, and produces its seeds and sow in one hour; hawkweed, a plant of the sun, used by druids to cast out demons; also found in the list walnut leaves and ivy land. These plants are arranged in bouquets, crosses and wreaths placed on the pediment and doors to bring good fortune is, " bouquet of fortunes .
We will not forget the night of St. John, pick nuts, or leaves of walnut, to the walnut wine to offer to friends. If you want to know more, I invite you to read amazing book on this subject: " Guide Flower " Bach, published by Marabout. He advocates the use of " leibothérapie " with all sorts of recipes, more or less effective and often the least bizarre or eccentric. We can not stop the popular belief!
The full moon will occur on June 26 and there will be lunar eclipse today. Over its course we will be rising around while she starts to decrease. This should cause atmospheric disturbances more or less important. It could be here a while heavy and stormy, with a temperature of about 25 ° that is to say what it takes for the crickets begin to sing, as they did in June 1662 when John Smith then wrote to Uzès these lines to his friends, "Paris" and La Ferte:
" For me I do not see why our windows. (He looked farmers reap ) because I could not be a time without dying out. Air is about as hot as an oven and turned on the heat continues as the night the day. Finally it should be resolved as to melt butter was a little breeze which charity to blow from time to time. And to finish me, I'm dizzy all day with an infinity of cicadas that only singing on all sides, but the song a more piercing and more intrusive world. If I had as much authority over them that had the good Saint Francis, I would say he did not like, "Sing my sister cicada" but I would ask very hard to go for a ride up 'in Paris or at La Ferte if you're still there for you to share such a beautiful harmony. "
good month of June 2010. Good summer ! Addisias!
Jean Mignot u 31 months May 2010
