Written by The Calendar Maker on December 28, 2025
Christmas season and its aftermath
Pagan Holidays Article
It took me a while to realize just how strange and unusual the Western concept of the Christmas season is. Like most middle-class children in North America, I spent my first seven years of my life believing in Santa Claus. Even when I learned that Santa wasn’t real, with the real point of the holiday
Written by The Calendar Maker on February 4, 2024
Happy belated Imbolc
Pagan Holidays Article
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
Written by The Calendar Maker on December 21, 2023
The promise of the Winter Solstice
Pagan Holidays Article
Modern humans in the Christian-dominated Western world have loaded all of their spiritual celebration energy into the months between Thanksgiving and Christmas 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
Written by The Calendar Maker on August 1, 2023
Lammas is not Lughnasadh
Pagan Holidays Article
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
Written by The Calendar Maker on February 2, 2023
Imbolc in Wisconsin
Pagan Holidays Article
Imbolc is a Celtic holiday and therefore not native to Wisconsin, but Imbolc in Wisconsin arrives in an interesting way.
Written by The Calendar Maker on December 22, 2022
Thoughts for this Yule and Winter Solstice…
Pagan Holidays Article
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