June 2019 is Here

We're now in June ... one of those 30 day months. It's the month in which my dear mother was born and as such has great personal sentiment.

June is the month in which summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice goes down Friday, June 21st this year.

The specialists have their own variations on the start of summer.

The meterologists make the call at June 1.

The astronomers, June 21. I also view the summer solstice as the actual start of summer.

Call me old fashioned.

The astrologists say that at the start of June the sun rises in the constellatiuon Taurus and at the end of June the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. Precession of the equinoxes ... i.e., the shifting of the axis of the earth during it's rotation results the the sun being in the astrological sign of Gemini, ending in the astrological sign cancer.

I've never placed a lot of store in astrology and my friends who do tell me that I am typical for my particular sign ... Aries but I'm afraid that that's an area into which I cannot delve otherwise because I don't even think the name of the my "sign" is spelled correctly.

So there you have it. June is here. I'm glad it's June but the summer has taxed me greatly with my preference for cooler temperatures. Be all of this as it may I don't get to pick any of these celestial events nor would I really want to be able to do so.

Suffice it to say that June is here. Welcome June and I don't want to wish anyone's life away but I look forward to November as well.