Summer Equinox

Zut alors! It's Solstice, not Equinox! My error. 

Yesterday, June 20, marked the first day of summer, and last night was the shortest night of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Did anyone celebrate? The Moon's phase was a waning crescent, meaning that it is less than the half-moon and becoming smaller toward New Moon in four days.

I don't need to hear anyone's dancing oaken in the waning moonlight, but, if you did, hope you enjoyed yourself. Me, I was illustrating a dark red lunar eclipse featuring my avatar's detail of a pair of frogs as the featured "seas" of the Moon.

And that's "dancing naked," not "oaken"

look, I have big fingers, and although I have a full-size keyboard with number pad on the side, the key-size allows me a total tolerance of ±1mm before I am drifting into another key, but there's simply no excuse for mistaking a 'd' with an 'n.' I taught myself to type in high school, and I call it the "search and destroy" method.

Focusing on astrology can become pagan. Be careful of the emphasis you place on it.

Dancing oaken, sounded a euphemism for naked anyhow, in the context it was used.

I didn't celebrate, but I enjoy the long days, more time I can be outside if the mood takes me.

No worries there, mate. It's not astrological interest at all, but nod the ancient Egyptian calendar. Solstices and equinoxes were key times in their calendar year [wich amounted to 12 months of 30 days each [basically a modified lunar calendar] in 3 seasons of 4 months each, plus an added five days onto the end of the third season, so they were adept with the knowledge of a  365-day year. We did not develop a true leap-year concept until the advent of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Curiously, they were able to figure out that leap year could add 1 day [Feb 29] only in years divisible by 400, so, there are some years in which no leap day is added. The next will be 2100.

Glad you like oaken. I'm much more embarrassed about Equinox. I know better.

Oh boy am I sure enjoying this equinox heat wave

It's a nod to the fact that we have worked out that the Earth rotates and orbits elliptically, relative to a star, whereby periods of night and day and also weather patterns are seen to vary.

And focussing on astrology is the consequence of tilting ones head and eyes skywards on a starry night.

And focussing on pseudo hypothetical religious books is the consequence of a downwards inclination of the head and eyes.

And reading more into things is seemingly a necessary human specialism.