Ready to party? The pagan celebration of the winter solstice is known as Yule, and it’s one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world. It simultaneously celebrates the shortest day of the ...

reading winter solstice books, reciting quotes or poems, exploring pagan yule and Celtic traditions, as well as crafting orange pomanders, spending the night by candlelight, practicing winter ...

Ready to party? The pagan celebration of the winter solstice is known as Yule, and it’s one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world. It simultaneously celebrates the shortest day of the ...

Winter solstice traditions and celebrations It's no surprise many cultures and religions celebrate a holiday -- whether it be Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or pagan festivals -- that coincides with ...

The winter solstice itself is not a pagan holiday, but it has been celebrated and observed by various cultures and religions, including some pagan traditions. Paganism is an umbrella term that ...

For the pagan members the church serves, it marks winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. On Sunday night, High Priestess Selena Fox gathered spiritual leaders ...

Historians speculate this was done by the Emperor as a move to weaken established pagan celebrations that occurred around the Winter Solstice. The date wouldn’t be accepted by the Eastern Empire ...

Many Christmastime traditions have their origins in wintertime traditions more broadly, specifically winter solstice celebrations ... Christian missionaries that pagan practices, including using ...

Christmas, initially not celebrated on December 25, was later adopted by Emperor Constantine in 336 A.D., possibly to overshadow pagan Winter Solstice festivities. Other traditions, such as the ...

Happy Winter Solstice! This year, the traditional pagan holiday fell on Dec. 21, 2023, for the United States, and Dec. 22, 2023, for Europe. Considered to be the longest night of the year ...

On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. The English Heritage Society says the 2022 ...