Category: Pagan Holidays

Happy belated Imbolc! I’m normally a bit more timely in marking my holidays, but this has been a busy week for me. This week I moved to a new apartment and that is is a big step for me. I won’t say specifically where I moved, but I can say that I’m somewhere on the…

Modern humans in the Christian-dominated Western world have backloaded all of their spiritual celebration energy into the months of November and December. This can make December in particular both a time of great joy and great stress and even sadness. Most Pagans through the Wheel of the Year, spread out our seasonal celebration energy evenly…

Preparing for a semi-public Lughnasadh ritual that I’m leading motivated me to dive deeper into the holiday and its origins. I wanted to ensure that I accurately portrayed the tradition. In doing so, I found something much deeper, richer, and more robust than the generic versions of Lughnasadh/Lammas that Internet content farms often promote on…

Imbolc is a Celtic holiday and therefore not native to Wisconsin, but Imbolc in Wisconsin arrives in an interesting way.

It’s worth asking why New Year’s Day is January 1st. Caesar did set up the his calendar that way. The actual history is more complicated.

11.723 Southlight 44. First of all, a most festive Yule and Winter Solstice. And a festive Litha and Summer Solstice to those south of the Equator. As I write this, my area faces a winter storm and blizzard warning spanning the next two days. Temperatures are supposed to plunge to -20 C and wind chills…