The Winter Solstice in Canberra is on Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 8:07pm AEST.
After the Winter solstice the days get longer, and the day has therefore been celebrated in many cultures as a time of rebirth.
“In the Southern Hemisphere the Winter solstice, also called Hibernal solstice, is the moment when the path of the Sun in the sky is farthest north. At the Winter solstice the Sun travels the shortest path through the sky, and that day therefore has the least daylight and the longest night.”
“When the Winter solstice happens in the Southern Hemisphere, the South Pole is inclined about 23.4° away from the Sun, with its vertical rays are overhead at their northernmost position, the Tropic of Cancer (23°27′ N).”
“According to the astronomical definition of the seasons, the Winter solstice marks the beginning of the season of winter, which lasts until the vernal equinox (September 22 or 23).”
On the shortest day on the shortest day i lie in the sun but feel the shade sweep over me hoping the dark will turn to light and that chance might four-leaf-clover me this sun through glass has kept me here and belief in tasks worth doing but suppose that jobs are over now the agendas changed or going suppose a canker is really inside not cured by sunshine at all where will we be – my friends and i when the long summer evenings call it’s not in a bottle, not in a pill and not in these fears of mine: it’s on the breath and in the soul where even the sun can’t shine if contentment comes but once a year when the shortest day is now over it might after all be just enough – and time will grow the clover gg 21/6/2008
