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BY JEMMA FOSTER
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
Jemma Foster is a creative director, curator, writer, artist and founder of Wild Alchemy Lab, Mama Xanadu and Semantica.
BY JEMMA FOSTER
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
Jemma Foster is a creative director, curator, writer, artist and founder of Wild Alchemy Lab, Mama Xanadu and Semantica.
BY JEMMA FOSTER
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
Jemma Foster is a creative director, curator, writer, artist and founder of Wild Alchemy Lab, Mama Xanadu and Semantica.
BY JEMMA FOSTER
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
If the sun ceased to exist, it would take eight minutes for us to know about it. Plants would stop photosynthesising and our oxygen supply would run out. We take for granted that the sun will rise each morning, but the reverence for our star is felt each solstice.
The solstice sun rises behind the Heel stone in the north-east of the horizon at Stonehenge, while in Scotland at Callanish there is the legend of the ‘shining one’ appearing at the midsummer dawn. In Stenness on the Isle of Orkney, the summer solstice is celebrated at the Comet Stone, near to the Ring of Brodgar. In Ireland, the entrance stones at Grange Stone Circle receive the solstice sunrise. The Carrowkeel cairns are in the Bricklieve Mountains in County Sligo and has a roofbox above the entrance where the sun enters the chamber at sunset a month either side of the summer solstice. For the moment of the summer solstice, the sunset illuminates the back of the chamber.
For thousands of years, these mineral antennas have continued to remind us of our communion with the sun.
Image credits:
Stonehenge: Jeremy Deller with Fraser Muggeridge, original photograph Historic England Archive
Sun: Extract from Wild Alchemy Lab, An Astro-botanical Guide to the Magic, Myth and Medicine of Plants. Written by Jemma Foster, Illustration by Andreas Brooks
Jemma Foster is a creative director, curator, writer, artist and founder of Wild Alchemy Lab, Mama Xanadu and Semantica.