SUMMER REJUVENATES The word solstice literally means: "sun stands still." This is the bi-annual event in which the sun appears to stand still. But, what does this mean? Well, for most of the year the sun can be observed rising and setting each day in a steady procession north or south. But at the summer and winter solstice the sun, for three days, rises and sets at the same point on the horizon. In other words it appears to 'stand still.' Therefore, it seems, time stands still. To the mystic the horizon is the plane of the infinite, where the heavens and the earth unite in a sacred embrace. It is where 'The Great Above' meets the 'Great Below,' and where, throughout the ages, the entrances and exits of celestial bodies were noted with varying degress of interest, interpretation and celebration.