This sickle of stars, with Regulus as the handle and the mane as the curved blade, is well known.
Solstice is the Latin term for sun stands still .
This is the time when the Northern Hemisphere experiences the longest day and shortest night. At the time of summer solstice, about June 22, the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer. Although now the summer solstice lies in Taurus, it is known as the Tropic of Cancer because the summer solstice was in Cancer at the time it was named. In Greek mythology the lion was associated with the Nemean Lion slain by Hercules as the first of his twelve labors. The skin of the lion was impenetrable by any mortal weapons so Hercules strangled the lion until it was dead and used the lion s tooth to cut the hide from its body.