I was checking out my Witch's Calendar for June this morning (they have little bits written up about the aspects of every month...) since I hadn't had a chance to check it yet and I found out something quite startling.  My birthday has always been very close to Litha, the summer solstice, this year it's the farthest it's ever been, four days apart.  I used to hope that the year I was born that Litha fell on my birthday, but I never really thought it did (plus my parents got married on the 21st, Litha of that year, three years before so I doubted it changed enough).  Reading my calendar this morning, the author of the month mentions Old Midsummer's Eve, June 24th.  My birthday.  So I Wikied it.  Turns out in the original calendar, Midsummer always fell on June 24th, and was eventually associated with St. John. 
In addition to being named after a fairy and being born on the day most sacred to fairies, I realized something else the other day.  I recently read a book of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales lent to me by a friend.  Some of the ones I knew best were most interesting from the way they had been changed in various movies (I have a couple movies of The Little Mermaid, one much truer to the story than the Disney version)...Thumbelina talks about a little girl born out of a flower who is kidnapped and eventually ends up in a field of flowers where little winged people just her size are each in their own flower.  She herself, was born out of a flower.  It's almost suggesting that all fairies are born from flowers.  My mom's name is Rose. 
So, one could say that I was born from a flower on Midsummer's eve, and then named after a goddess who was also a fairy.  Even more interesting, I was a week late and then my mom was in labor for scarcely half an hour.  Almost as if I was waiting for the right day and then BAM there I was.  Couldn't draw it out and be born on the wrong day, now could I?
It is an interesting collection of facts. 

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