Today (called Midsummer) in the days of the summer solstice, in Masonry, it’s St. John the Baptist day (in the peak of light, the Sun at the midheaven).

On the 27th of December, at Winter Solstice the celebration of St. John represents the return of light (hidden in the depths of the southern latitudes). On this day after Christmas, actually on the 2nd day after Christmas, Taurus’s day, St. John the Evangelist (writer of the Gospel) is celebrated.

The summer & winter solstices represent the balancing of light & dark, heat & cold, action & reflection.

Both St. Johns represent the upright character, intelligence, sanctity and integrity of Masons (Freemasonry, Co-Masonry). These two historical Christian figures symbolize the perfect balance of Masonic virtues: zeal, moral rectitude, brotherly love, and the ongoing quest for enlightenment.

The two St. Johns – one represents passionate stern zeal (St. John the Baptist) – calling people to be baptized in the River Jordan in preparation for the Coming of the Christ (who overshadowed Jesus, St. John’s cousin).
The other John (the Evangelist & the Beloved Disciple) was known for his kindness and gentle brotherly love. He took care of Mary…

St. John the Evangelist, one of the Apostles, writer of the 4th Gospel & the Book of Revelation).

Historically, during the Middle Ages, stonemason guilds operated in a largely Christian society and placed their trades under the protection of patron saints.

About St. John the Baptist. John, a hermit and the cousin of Jesus (overshadowed by the Christ), prophesied the coming of the Messiah. Like the New Group of World Servers, John’s role was to “prepare the Way for the Messiah,” whose light signifies the bright light of summer.

A Wedding. At summer solstice and the days that follow, the devic (fairy) kingdom (angels that build and sustain form, living in gardens and forests), having completed their work for the year, now prepare for a golden wedding celebration (a Midsummer wedding, depicted in the play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Shakespeare) in nature. It is a celebration of the transformative power of love, harmony and joy.

This celebration of love also takes place within humanity’s hearts and minds.
How does this occur?
Each month, at new and full moons, seeds of light gather within us – sun seeds (in the pituitary) and moon seeds (in the pineal), creating over time, a lighted awareness. These seeds (sparks of light) gather in the third ventricle (marriage bed) in the head and at summer solstice, create an etheric fire. The result, for those who have prepared, is a new level of wisdom, revelations and a mental luminosity. The mind, illumined with light, enters the Raincloud of Knowable Things.

A further study of today, June 24, 2026
Thursday, June 24th is Midsummer Day (quarter day) and the Feast of St. John the Baptist, forerunner, cousin and baptizer of Jesus of Nazareth.
This feast day, the oldest festival in the Christian church, occurs three months after the Annunciation and six months before Christmas (winter solstice).

There is a statement St. John the Baptist made upon seeing Jesus at the River Jordan….
“He (Jesus as overshadowed by the Christ becoming the Light) must increase, as I (John) must decrease.” (John 3:30).

The statement reflects the light of the Gemini brothers’ Castor & Pollux seed thought.
The Soul says, “I see my other self (personality self) and in the waning of that self, I the Soul ight grow and glow” (referring to the dimming of the personality (John or in the light of the waxing of the Soul) & the brightening of the Christ’s light.

“The symbolic role for John in Christianity is to act as the sacrificial twin for Jesus: the dark twin of the summer solstice (John) being replaced by the light twin at the winter solstice (Jesus).”

Two St. Johns are the patron saints of Freemasonry;
St. John the Baptist at midsummer (June 24) and St. John the Evangelist on Dec. 27th.
The two saints represent the Gemini Masonry Temple columns, one during the greatest time of light (summer) and the other at the greatest darkness (winter).
Standing as they do at the solstices, they represent doorways to light and dark, just as the signs Cancer and Capricorn represent the two Gates from spirit to matter (Cancer) and back again to Spirig (Capricorn).

Wedding in Nature
On midsummer’s day the ancients honored water and fire, the sun and the plant kingdom. It is the time of the great wedding (Duke Theseus to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons) as written by Shakespeare (lesser avatar, disciple, Master Racozy, also Count St. Germaine.) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (three plots, a wedding, the woodland and Fairyland featuring the King and Queen of the Fairies, Oberon and Tatiana, under the light of the moon).

It is interesting to note British Astronomer William Herschel named the two moons of Uranus, discovered in 1787, after Oberon and Titania.

Scorpio moon today, Cancer Sun & Jupiter.
Lots of waters today….bathing in the waters of Life today.
love, Risa