Tag: #PaganTraditions
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Why Yule Still Matters, Even If You Celebrate Christmas

Yule rests in the calendar like some odd gap of time. The date is known, but the meaning slips by most. People force their way through the month with lights and lists and every noise that December brings, that’s fine, but it makes them miss what happens around the shortest day. Those days between the…
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Under the Cold Moon: What Winter Reveals

Most people walk under the Cold Moon without giving it more than a glance. I don’t blame them. Winter teaches you to hurry, to keep your head down, to get from warm place to warm place. But this moon asks for a slower look, even if you don’t think of yourself as someone who notices…
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Lughnasadh: The First Fruits of the Harvest

The Celtic festival of Lughnasadh (LOO-nuh-suh), also referred to by its later Christianized counterpart Lammas (from “Loaf Mass”), is a powerful turning point in both the spiritual and agricultural year. Celebrated on August 1st, Lughnasadh is one of the four major cross-quarter festivals in the Celtic wheel of the year. It falls between the Summer…