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June 23

As the Season Turns

CHAPTER

The Mid-Summer Night's Dream

The simadim is an often beautiful twilight created by the sun as it dips briefly below the horizon. Shetlanders have long celebrated this bewitching spectacle with community-centred parties and bonfires. One such sunset ritual engages with an important mid-summer tradition, love telling. Choose one unopened wildflower only taking what you need for each person and wrap the stems in a dog leaf then place them beneath a rock or an old flower pot at sunset on mid- summer eve. Your wish could be to do with love or marriage but if that's not for you just now then choose something that is. Keep an eye on your flowers over the next few days to see if

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