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After
her came jolly June, arrayed
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Let us sing now of Hera, the women's
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Carna, the first day's yours. Goddess of the hinge:
She opens the closed, by her power, closes the open ...
This same day is a festival of Mars, whose temple
By the Covered Way is seen from beyond the Capene Gate.
You too, Tempest, were considered worthy of a shrine,
After our fleet was almost sunk in Corsican waters.
These human monuments are obvious. If you look
For stars too, great Jove's eagle, with curved talons, rises.
Ovid, Fasti,
vi, 193,
translated
by AS Kline Roman
calendar
Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and
mine
The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights
And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine,
The foliage of the valleys and the heights.
Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
I am the mother of all dear delights;
I am the fairest daughter of the year.
HW
Longfellow (1807
- '82);
The Poet's Calendar for
June
The month of June is blithe and gay,
Driving winter's ills away.
Who comes with Summer to this earth,
And owes to June her hour of birth
With ring of agate on her hand
Can health, wealth and long life command.
Traditional
English rhyme
June is International Accordion
Awareness Month. It is also Celibacy Awareness Month. These two may be
related.
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Journalist: Didn't you have anything on? Marilyn: I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe, American
actress, born on June 1, 1926 (attributed quotation)
I want
to grow old without face-lifts ... I want to have the courage to be loyal
to the face I have made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old
age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you?
You'd never wholly know yourself.
Marilyn Monroe, American
actress, born on June 1, 1926
Our security will require all Americans to be
forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action when
necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.
USA President George W Bush; June 1, 2002, graduation
speech at West Point military academy, in an early reference to his new
doctrine of pre-emptive invasion
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June
1
is
the 152nd
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213
days remaining.
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January birthstone: Pearl, signifying purity and tears, and agate, signifying health and long life; alexandrite or moonstone.
Who comes with Summer to this earth,
And owes to June her hour of birth.
With ring of agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth and long life command.
The month of June, sacred to the goddess Juno
The sixth month of the year
derived its name from the Roman junius,
a gens or clan name related to juvenis, meaning young. The Roman
writer, Ovid, in Fasti, his work on the Roman
calendar, writes: Junius a
juvenum nomine dictus (v, 79). Another possibility is that it might
derive from the goddess Juno
– perhaps both explanations are correct.
Juno was the Roman
mother goddess, known
to the Greeks as Hera, and her original name to the Romans was
Junonius. Among her attributes, she is queen of heaven, approximating Frigg in
the Northern Tradition, and Mary in the Christian. She is ruler of the
high point of year, when there is maximum light and minimum darkness (in
the Northern Hemisphere). On or about June 21, the northern
Summer Solstice will occur, and here in the south,
we will have our shortest day (Winter Solstice).
Juno is a counterpart of Janus and the divine watcher over the female sex, so
this month is considered the best time to marry. As Juno Moneta,
guardian of wealth and money, she had a temple on the Capitoline Hill in
Rome where the empire's coins were minted. The folklorist Nigel
Pennick (The
Pagan Book of Days, Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont, USA,
1992) writes, "This theme of wealth can also be seen in the
runic year cycle: the half-month of Feoh, the time of wealth and
abundance, begins on 29 June".
The most
likely derivation is that the month was dedicated a Junioribus – that is, to the junior or inferior branch of the
original legislature of Rome, just as May was a Majoribus, or to the superior branch.
The Saxons called it Weyd-monat, because their beasts did then weyde into the meadows, meaning that they went in and fed (cf the Tutonic weyde, a meadow). Another explanation is that June was Woedmonath, and that woed means weed. June was called Medemonath, Midsumormonath and Braeckmonath (breaking of soil) ...
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