Each of the Celtic Mythologies (Britain, Wales, Ireland & Scotland) contains a version of the Battle of the Oak King and the Holly King. These two kings each rule half of the year and they fight for supremacy as the seasons change each year. Each year, the Oak King challenges...
As the weather gets colder, and the stores grow busier, I find myself reflecting on the reason for the season. Not the Earth's rotation around the Sun as I somewhat cynically commented the other day, but the OTHER, less mundane reason. It actually has very little to do with wise...
Yule, or the Winter Solstice has been so mixed up with Christmas that sometimes it is hard to separate the two. In fact, the celebration of Christ's Birth was moved to coincide with the Winter Solstice Celebrations so that people would not feel they were missing out on their Mid-Winter...
Yule, Christmas, Solstice, whatever you want to call it, is the festival of the rebirth of the sun and the return of light to the land. Historically it was celebrated on the longest night of the year, and marked the start of the days growing slowly longer and warmer. The...
Juniper Berry represents the act of welcoming and resonates well with the late autumn and winter holiday season. When burned, the warm, woody-sweet, balsamic, pine-needle like aroma of the smoke has a certain protective quality, the kind that protects the fragility of a seedling that just popped up out of the soil, or the frailty...
