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Holidays 12.21
Holidays
Armed Forces Day (Philippines)
Chaos Day
Chester Greenwood Day (Inventor of Earmuffs; Maine)
Crossword Puzzle Day
Don’t Be a Scrooge Day
Doubting Thomas Day (Original Date] (a.k.a. ...
Begging Day
Doleing Day
Going A-Corning
Going A-Gooding
Gooding Day
Hollering Day
Mumping Day
Thomasing
End of the World Day
Forefather's Day (New England)
Global Orgasm for Peace Day
Humbug Day
International Dalek Remembrance Day
Look on the Bright Side Day
National Forge Day
National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)
National Maine Day
Phileas Fogg Wins A Wager Day
Ribbon Candy Day
São Tomé Day (São Tomé Day and Príncipe)
Solstice [1st Day of Winter in Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. ...
Alban Arthuan (a..k.a. Yule Celtic, Pagan) [8 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Alban Arthuan (Druid Solstice Festival)
Anne and Samantha Day
Blue Christmas (Western Christian)
Bruma (Ancient Rome)
Celebrate Short Fiction Day
Daylight Appreciation Day
Dōngzhì Festival (a.k.a. Extreme of Winter; China, East Asia) [on winter solstice]
Don’t Make Your Bed Day
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt, celebrating Isis finding Osiris & resurrecting him)
Festival of Odin, Ing, and Erda (Asatru)
Finally Summer Day/Finally Winter Day
Flashlight Day
Hump Day (Tasmania)
Jul (a.k.a. Jol)
Litha (Wiccan/Pagan; southern hemisphere)
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
National Short Girl Appreciation Day
National Short Story Day
Sanghamitta (Theravada Buddhism)
Soyala New Year Festival (Hopi and Zuni Native Americans)
Sol Invictus (Undefeated Sun; Ancient Rome)
Wild Hunt peak (Norse)
Yalda (Iran; Persian/Zoroastrian)
Yule (Wiccan/Pagan; Northern Hemisphere)
Yuletide
World Peace Day
Yuletide Lad #10 arrives (Gluggagaegir or Peeper; Iceland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Kiwi Fruit Day (California)
National Armagnac Day
National Coquito Day
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Hamburger Day
National Kiwi Fruit Day
Ribbon Candy Day
3rd Wednesday in December
Museum Selfie Day [3rd Wednesday]
Independence Days
Kingdom of Nepal. (Declared; 1768)
Feast Days
Berthollet (Positivist; Saint)
Divalia (a.k.a. Angeronalia; Old Roman festival to Angerona or Voluptia, goddess of joy, pleasure, & secrecy)
Edburge (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Isis the Black Cow (Ancient Egypt)
Feelings of Gnawing Guilt Minute (04:00-04:01; Church of the SubGenius)
Fred (Muppetism)
Haloa (Attic festival honoring Demeter, Dionysus & Poseidon)
Hanukkah Day #3 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 26th]
O Oriens (Christian; Saint)
Pancha Ganapati begins (until 25th; Hindu festival celebrating Lord Ganesha, Saiva Siddhanta Church)
Peter Canisius (Christian; Saint)
Pongal of the Cows (Hindu)
Poseide of Aegina (Festival to Poseidon; Ancient Greece)
Saturnalia and Solstice Day (Pastafarian)
Thomas the Apostle (Anglicanism)
Tammuz (Ancient Babylonian Yule Ritual)
Ziemassvetki (Ancient Latvia; birth of Dievs)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [57 of 57]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 59 of 60)
Premieres
Aquaman (Film; 2018)
A Beautiful Mind (Film; 2001)
Bumblebee (Film; 2018)
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen (Play; 1879)
The Electric Horseman (Film; 1979)
The Graduate (Film; 1967)
Kindergarten Cop (Film; 1990)
Little Women (Film; 1994)
National Treasure: book of Secrets (Film; 2007)
Sing (Animated Film; 2016)
The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Fairy Tale; 1844)
Snow White and the Sven Dwarfs (Animated Disney Film; 1937)
Spamalot (Musical Play; 2004)
Sweeney Todd (Film; 2007)
Then There Was X, by DMX (Album; 1999)
This Is 40 (Film; 2012)
Walk Hard: The dewey Cox Story (Film; 2007)
Today’s Name Days
Hagar, Peter (Austria)
Mihej, Petar (Croatia)
Natálie (Czech Republic)
Thomas (Denmark)
Tom, Tommi, Toom, Toomas (Estonia)
Tomi, Tommi, Tuomas, Tuomo (Finland)
Pierre (France)
Hagar, Ingmar, Ingo (Germany)
Julia, Themistokles, Themistoklis (Greece)
Tamás (Hungary)
Pietro (Italy)
Saulcerīte, Toms (Latvia)
Girenė, Honoratas, Norgaudas, Tomas (Lithuania)
Tom, Tomas (Norway)
Balbin, Festus, Honorat, Tomasz, Tomisław (Poland)
Iuliana, Temistocle (Romania)
Bohdan (Slovakia)
Pedro (Spain)
Tomas (Sweden)
Eva, Eve, Julianne, Julianna (Ukraine)
Estella, Estelle, Ester, Esther, Star, Stella, Van, Vance, Vanesa, Vanessa, Vanna (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 355 of 2022; 10 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 51 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 26 of 28]
Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 28 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 27 Kislev 5783
Islamic: 27 Jumada I 1444
J Cal: 25 Zima; Threesday [25 of 30]
Julian: 8 December 2022
Moon: 4%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 19 Bichat (12th Month) [Berthollet]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 1 of 90)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 29 of 30)
Calendar Changes
Winter [Season 1 of 4]
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Holidays 12.21
Holidays
Armed Forces Day (Philippines)
Chaos Day
Chester Greenwood Day (Inventor of Earmuffs; Maine)
Crossword Puzzle Day
Don’t Be a Scrooge Day
Doubting Thomas Day (Original Date] (a.k.a. ...
Begging Day
Doleing Day
Going A-Corning
Going A-Gooding
Gooding Day
Hollering Day
Mumping Day
Thomasing
End of the World Day
Forefather's Day (New England)
Global Orgasm for Peace Day
Humbug Day
International Dalek Remembrance Day
Look on the Bright Side Day
National Forge Day
National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)
National Maine Day
Phileas Fogg Wins A Wager Day
Ribbon Candy Day
São Tomé Day (São Tomé Day and Príncipe)
Solstice [1st Day of Winter in Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. ...
Alban Arthuan (a..k.a. Yule Celtic, Pagan) [8 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Alban Arthuan (Druid Solstice Festival)
Anne and Samantha Day
Blue Christmas (Western Christian)
Bruma (Ancient Rome)
Celebrate Short Fiction Day
Daylight Appreciation Day
Dōngzhì Festival (a.k.a. Extreme of Winter; China, East Asia) [on winter solstice]
Don’t Make Your Bed Day
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt, celebrating Isis finding Osiris & resurrecting him)
Festival of Odin, Ing, and Erda (Asatru)
Finally Summer Day/Finally Winter Day
Flashlight Day
Hump Day (Tasmania)
Jul (a.k.a. Jol)
Litha (Wiccan/Pagan; southern hemisphere)
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
National Short Girl Appreciation Day
National Short Story Day
Sanghamitta (Theravada Buddhism)
Soyala New Year Festival (Hopi and Zuni Native Americans)
Sol Invictus (Undefeated Sun; Ancient Rome)
Wild Hunt peak (Norse)
Yalda (Iran; Persian/Zoroastrian)
Yule (Wiccan/Pagan; Northern Hemisphere)
Yuletide
World Peace Day
Yuletide Lad #10 arrives (Gluggagaegir or Peeper; Iceland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Kiwi Fruit Day (California)
National Armagnac Day
National Coquito Day
National French Fried Shrimp Day
National Hamburger Day
National Kiwi Fruit Day
Ribbon Candy Day
3rd Wednesday in December
Museum Selfie Day [3rd Wednesday]
Independence Days
Kingdom of Nepal. (Declared; 1768)
Feast Days
Berthollet (Positivist; Saint)
Divalia (a.k.a. Angeronalia; Old Roman festival to Angerona or Voluptia, goddess of joy, pleasure, & secrecy)
Edburge (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Isis the Black Cow (Ancient Egypt)
Feelings of Gnawing Guilt Minute (04:00-04:01; Church of the SubGenius)
Fred (Muppetism)
Haloa (Attic festival honoring Demeter, Dionysus & Poseidon)
Hanukkah Day #3 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 26th]
O Oriens (Christian; Saint)
Pancha Ganapati begins (until 25th; Hindu festival celebrating Lord Ganesha, Saiva Siddhanta Church)
Peter Canisius (Christian; Saint)
Pongal of the Cows (Hindu)
Poseide of Aegina (Festival to Poseidon; Ancient Greece)
Saturnalia and Solstice Day (Pastafarian)
Thomas the Apostle (Anglicanism)
Tammuz (Ancient Babylonian Yule Ritual)
Ziemassvetki (Ancient Latvia; birth of Dievs)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [57 of 57]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 59 of 60)
Premieres
Aquaman (Film; 2018)
A Beautiful Mind (Film; 2001)
Bumblebee (Film; 2018)
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen (Play; 1879)
The Electric Horseman (Film; 1979)
The Graduate (Film; 1967)
Kindergarten Cop (Film; 1990)
Little Women (Film; 1994)
National Treasure: book of Secrets (Film; 2007)
Sing (Animated Film; 2016)
The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen (Fairy Tale; 1844)
Snow White and the Sven Dwarfs (Animated Disney Film; 1937)
Spamalot (Musical Play; 2004)
Sweeney Todd (Film; 2007)
Then There Was X, by DMX (Album; 1999)
This Is 40 (Film; 2012)
Walk Hard: The dewey Cox Story (Film; 2007)
Today’s Name Days
Hagar, Peter (Austria)
Mihej, Petar (Croatia)
Natálie (Czech Republic)
Thomas (Denmark)
Tom, Tommi, Toom, Toomas (Estonia)
Tomi, Tommi, Tuomas, Tuomo (Finland)
Pierre (France)
Hagar, Ingmar, Ingo (Germany)
Julia, Themistokles, Themistoklis (Greece)
Tamás (Hungary)
Pietro (Italy)
Saulcerīte, Toms (Latvia)
Girenė, Honoratas, Norgaudas, Tomas (Lithuania)
Tom, Tomas (Norway)
Balbin, Festus, Honorat, Tomasz, Tomisław (Poland)
Iuliana, Temistocle (Romania)
Bohdan (Slovakia)
Pedro (Spain)
Tomas (Sweden)
Eva, Eve, Julianne, Julianna (Ukraine)
Estella, Estelle, Ester, Esther, Star, Stella, Van, Vance, Vanesa, Vanessa, Vanna (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 355 of 2022; 10 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 51 of 2022
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 26 of 28]
Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 28 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)
Hebrew: 27 Kislev 5783
Islamic: 27 Jumada I 1444
J Cal: 25 Zima; Threesday [25 of 30]
Julian: 8 December 2022
Moon: 4%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 19 Bichat (12th Month) [Berthollet]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 1 of 90)
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 29 of 30)
Calendar Changes
Winter [Season 1 of 4]
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Litha Resource Masterpost
A collection of categorized posts for your Litha needs! What is Litha? [X] Litha is celebrated on slightly different days depending on who you ask/the year, but the broad spectrum is: June 20th-25th in the Northern Hemisphere and December 20th-25th in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Basics:
Simple ways to celebrate Litha
Litha: how do I celebrate this sabbat?
Let’s talk Litha!
Litha for lazy witches
Witches sabbats: Litha
Celebrating Litha: lore, decor and festivals
Litha + faerie interactions masterpost
Ideas for Litha
Litha correspondences
Litha: a midsummer night
Things to do on midsummer
Summer solstice celebration
Secular celebrations - midsummer
Litha Crafts:
DIY flower pressing
Make flower crowns / Litha flower crown / DIY flower headband
Litha Recipes:
Litha orange honey cake
Summer solstice honey cakes
Litha herbal honey cookies
Litha lavender cookies
Litha buttermilk bread
Litha lavender thyme chicken
Litha iced drinks masterpost
Litha sun tea
Summer tea
Litha iced chamomile tea
Sun seeker cocktail
Litha Spells & Rituals:
Simple spell for sunshine
Litha blessings
Litha candle spell
Midsummer ritual
A midsummer bath
Litha Tarot Spreads:
Litha tarot spread (3 card)
The light: a tarot spread for Litha (3 card)
Summer solstice tarot spread (3 card)
A midsummer spread (5 card)
Litha tarot spread (5 card)
The baking sun tarot spread (5-6 card)
Other:
Sun oil
Litha/Midsommar sun oil
Solar cleansing brew
Litha altar decorations
Imbolc / Ostara / Beltane / Litha / Lammas / Mabon / Samhain / Yule / Bedridden ideas
Updated December of 2022. Please inform me of broken links via askbox!
#FINALLY making the last few of these#its much easier to update a few links each year than compiling a whole post#hope to make ones for Lammas and Samhain too this year!
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December 25th is the most common date of celebration around the world… but, there are some other dates as well. Some churches use a different calendar for their religious celebrations. Orthodox Churches in Russia, Serbia, Jerusalem, Ukraine, Ethiopia… use the old Julian calendar and Orcas play basketball stickers shirt in those churches celebrate Christmas on January 7th. Most people in the Greek Orthodox Church celebrate Christmas on December 25th. But some still use the Julian calendar and so celebrate Christmas on 7th January! Some Greek Catholics also celebrate on January 7th.
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Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages—Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French—all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes “hallowed night.” Since the early 20th century, Christmas has also been a Orcas play basketball stickers shirt family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, devoid of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. In this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.
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21/06/17 • Yule
Im so excited, this is my first sabbat!
When I first started researching witchcraft I wasn’t interested in the sabbats. I found them pointless. That was until I started chilling with Gaia and the tree spirits. I was meditating with Her and she gave me this sudden inspiration to celebrate this years yule. I wanted to share my thoughts on the meaning of Yule and is scientific and historical factors that I am including in my ritual this year. This is mainly for personal reference but I thought I should share. :)
Many cultures and religions celebrate the winter solstice including Christians - Christmas - and Jews - Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Although the sun isnt exactly related to any of these holidays there is still some representation; for example, candles, fairy lights, fires, etc. Yule is a pagan holiday which is also known as a sabbat. The sabbats celebrate the sun and in my mind the Earth.
Yule happens on the winter solstice which falls in June in Australia. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year as the sun is only up for a few hours. This happens because the sun is at its greatest distance from the Earth creating shorter or longer days depending on the season due to the tilt in the Earths axis. The sun also appears to be lower in the sky then it usually does and the opposite occurs on the summer solstice (aka Litha) This year the sun is only going to be in the sky for a matter of 10 hours and 3 minutes.
All throughout pre-Christian Europe Yule was celebrated with large festivals and merriment. In Scandinavia Juul was celebrated for 12 days straight!
The celebrations date back all the way to the Vikings. They would celebrate it with grand parties and feasts. According to the Icelandic sagas as well human and animal sacrifice was preformed. They made Yule logs and decorated trees much like we do for Christmas.
The Celts also celebrated the winder solstice. Not much is known about how they celebrated it but it is said the Druid priests would sacrifice a white bull and gather mistletoe.
The Romans had a festival around the time of the winter solstice as well. It was called Saturnalia and was in celebration of the god Saturn (in Greek mythology, Cronus). It involved gift giving, sacrifices, special privileges for the salves, and lots and lots of feasting. They would decorate trees and bushes with ornaments and adorn their homes with garlands of greenery.
The Egyptians also celebrated it! They celebrated it for the rebirth of Ra, the sun god. As their culture spread they brought the celebration with them throughout Mesopotamia. People started to realise that even after the darkness of winter the sun does come back and blesses their crops with new growth.
When the Christians started converting the pagans of Europe to Christianity they had a hard time because they enjoyed their holidays so as incentive they adopted the traditions and symbols.
Now days pagans, wiccans, and even secular witches celebrate the winter solstice. We celebrate it much like the ancient pagans did. We give gifts, decorate trees, have feasts, create yule logs, and enjoy some good times with our family and communities.
The main idea that surrounds the winter solstice is the rebirth of the sun. Its a time of new beginnings and is perfect for inviting new experiences into your life. Its important to also be thankful for everything that you have received and for your friends and family.
With all of that noted I am planning on celebrating Yule by waking up with the sun and Im going to watch it rise from the top of the hill near my house and preform a sun ritual (x). Im going to be making a wish jar (x) with all my wishes for my friends and family as well as my personal goals. I am working on the 21st so on the 22nd Im going to be making a recipe (x) for me and my mum with the intent of inviting prosperity into mine and my mums life as well as protecting us in the future.
What do you guys usually do for Yule? How are all my Northern Hemisphere friends celebrating Litha?
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A Christmas quiz
Christmas was first celebrated as a Christian festival
in Bethlehem in AD 45
in Jerusalem around AD 95
in Rome around 335 AD
in Antioch around 895 AD
25 December coincides with which pagan festival/s
worship of the Zaroastrian (Persian) god of light, Mithra
worship of the Roman god Saturn
the lighting of the Yule log by Germanic tribes
natalis solis invicti, the birthday of the unconquered sun
the northern hemisphere winter solstice
the medieval feast day of St. Nicholas of Myra
Jesus was most likely born
6-4BC
4-0BC
0-2AD
2-4AD
Jesus was most likely born toward the end of
March
June
September
December
The Twelve Days of Christmas song was
published in England in 1780 and is thought to be French in origin (X)
published in the US is 1815 and thought to be French in origin
published in Scotland in 1819 and thought to be Scottish in origin
published in Cyberbia in 2005 and thought to be Dreise in origin
Saint Nicholas
was an early Christian bishop whose relics reside mostly in Venice
was an early Christian bishop with tombs in Turkey, France and Ireland
was a Medieveal Russian Jew who converted to Christianity
may or may not have attended the Council of Nicea
is the patron saint of repentant thieves
Saint Nicholas lived
in Turkey, born 270 AD, died 343 AD (X)
in Cyprus, born 415 AD, died 487 AD
in Greece, born 315 AD, died 401 AD
in Russia, born 385 AD, died 463 AD
Before the jolly red Santa Claus we know and love was popularised by the Coca-Cola Company he was represented as
Not quite human
A thin, elf-like creature
a friend of Union soldiers
A well-wisher at Christmas time
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New world news from Time: 4 Winter Solstice Rituals From Around the World
Thousands of people around the globe will herald the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, with centuries-old rituals like soaking in fruit-filled baths and dressing up as a devilish folklore legend that punishes naughty children around Christmas.
The solstice, which falls on Dec. 21 this year, marks the first day of winter. It starts the moment the Northern Hemisphere is pointed at its farthest distance from the sun. The winter solstice is considered a turning point in the year in many cultures. The sacred day is also called Yule to pagans celebrating the birth of the new solar year, according to Circle Sanctuary, a prominent pagan group in America. Dozens of pagans and druids head to Stonehenge, an iconic site in England, to pay tribute to the sun during the solstice.
Here are some of the ways people celebrate the winter solstice around the world:
Getting scared by Krampus in Austria
Sean Gallup—Getty ImagesA member of the Haiminger Krampusgruppe dressed as the Krampus creature, an Austrian winter solstice ritual, lets himself be touched by onlookers prior to the annual Krampus night in Tyrol on Dec. 1, 2013.
Hordes of revelers descend on Hollabrunn, Austria each year during the winter solstice to watch a swarm of people dressed like Krampus — the half-demon, half-goat counterpart to Santa Claus — terrorize and tease the crowd in horned masks, fur body suits and whips. “It is weird, but it’s fun,” said Natalie Kononenko, a professor and Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography Arts at the University of Alberta in Canada.
Krampus is a figure that punishes bad children by whipping and snatching them, according to Germanic folklore. The traditional Krampus run in Austria is believed to ward off bad spirits near the winter solstice, but it is also a source of local entertainment, Kononenko said. Last year, the creatures wielded torches, charged at delighted guests and jumped over security gates to lightly whip people, according to footage from the Associated Press.
While many of the costumes include giant horns, sharpened teeth and mangled faces — features that might be considered nightmarish to an ordinary person — the Krampus run annually amuses those in attendance. “It’s sort of like Halloween,” Kononenko said. “You get to dress up in these really disgusting costumes. You get to do stuff you don’t normally get to do.”
This year’s family-friendly Krampus run in Hollabrunn’s main square takes place Dec. 16. “To be really afraid again and experience evil with fun is the motto,” its organizers wrote on the event’s website.
Taking in a once-in-a-lifetime sight in Ireland
Brian Lawless—PA Wire/APPeople gather for sunrise at Newgrange on the morning of the winter solstice on Dec. 21, 2014.
Dozens of people, lucky enough to be selected through an annual lottery, get the chance to stand inside the Newgrange monument in Ireland and absorb the first rays of the day as they fill the ancient chambers during the winter solstice.
Newgrange is a burial mound in Ireland’s Boyne Valley that is over 5,000 years old. The Stone Age monument contains a 62-foot passage that leads into a chamber that is aligned with the sun as it rises during the winter solstice, according to its website. Between Dec. 19 and Dec. 23 around dawn, sunlight pierces through the top of the chamber and slowly illuminates the room for about 17 minutes.
More than 32,500 people applied for a spot inside the chamber this year, according to Newgrange’s website. Only 60 of them were picked from the lottery to partake in this winter solstice ritual.
Soaking in baths full of fruit in Japan
Noriaki Sasaki—The Yomiuri Shimbun/APA pair of adult capybara and three babies take a yuzu-yu, or a hot bath with yuzu citrus fruits, a winter solstice ritual in Japan.
In Japan, people traditionally soak in hot baths with the yuzu citrus fruit to welcome the winter solstice and protect their bodies from the common cold. During last year’s solstice celebration, children from a local preschool shared a dip in a traditional yuzu tub in the city of Toyooka as dozens of the yellow yuzu fruits surrounded them on the surface, according to Japan’s daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Similarly, the bath has become custom for animals in some Japanese zoos. Photos from the local media show Japanese macaques, hippos and capybaras enjoying fruit-filled baths last December in their enclosures at the Fukuoka City Zoological Garden and the Izu Shaboten Zoo.
In Korea, good luck on the solstice is associated with red bean porridge. Koreans will often make the dish both to eat and spread around the house to keep evil spirits away, according to Seungja Choi, a senior lector of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Besides its believed spiritual benefits, Choi said, the meal also contains a lot of nutrition. “If you eat this, you get healthy,” she said.
Catching the sunrise at Stonehenge
Matt Cardy—Getty ImagesThe sun makes a brief appearance through clouds as druids, pagans and revelers gather in the centre of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England for the 2015 winter solstice.
England’s famous Stonehenge lures thousands of visitors during the summer and winter solstices. Revelers gather at the prehistoric site of ancient stones in Wiltshire to sing, dance, play instruments, kiss the stones and do yoga as they wait for the sun to rise. The iconic Stonehenge is known for its precise alignment with the sun’s movement and may have been a sacred place of worship and celebration for solstices for thousands of years, according to English Heritage, which manages the popular destination.
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Lammas & Lughnasadh Resource Masterpost
A collection of categorized posts for your Lammas needs! What is Lammas? [X] Lammas is generally celebrated on August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and February 1st in the Southern Hemisphere. Also called/merged with Lughnasadh.
The Basics:
Lammas or Lughnasadh?
Lammas correspondences / more correspondences / even more
Lammas: easy ways to celebrate / more ways to celebrate / even more
Lammas tips
Secular Lughnasadh celebration
Low spoons ways to celebrate Lammas
Lughnasadh - spoonie witch friendly
Subtle ways to celebrate
Lammas Crafts:
Leaf envelopes
Corn husk dolls
Lammas Recipes:
Lughnasadh sun tea
Honey lavender bread
Soda bread for Lammas
Lughnasadh blackberry danishes
Oatmeal bread for Lughnasadh
No-knead artisan crusty bread
Strengthening magical onion jam
Lammas Spells:
Lammas bread protection spell
Lughnasadh/Lammas ritual
Ritual for Lughnasadh/Lammas
Lammas jar
Lammas Tarot Spreads:
Lammas tarot spread (3 card)
Baking bread spread (3 card)
The harvest: a Lammas spread (3 card)
Lughnasadh harvest spread (4 card)
Lammas harvest tarot spread (5 card)
Lammas spread (6 card)
Other:
First harvest incense recipe
Lughnasadh oil
Invocation to Brigid
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Yule Resource Masterpost
A collection of categorized links for your Yule needs! What is Yule? [X] Yule is celebrated on slightly different days depending on who you ask, but the broad spectrum is: December 20th to January 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and around June 20th (give or take a few days) in the Southern Hemisphere.
The basics:
Yule correspondences
Celebrating Yule
Yule: A very merry sabbat
Guide to Yuletide plants + herbs
A Yule ritual
Secular celebrations: Yule
50 Yuleisms
Inexpensive Yule decorations
Winter solstice - Spoonie witch friendly
Yule Crafts:
Yule potpourri recipe
Witch balls
Decorate Yule tree with crystals
Mini herb wreaths
Yule log
Yule craft ideas
Pine protection balm
Dried orange slices
Apple feeders for winter birds
Yule Recipes:
Herbal shortbread
Chocolate Yule log
Double chocolate bread
Yule banana bread
Mulled wine poached pears
Yule tea
Yule Punch
Non-alcoholic mulled wine
Yule mulled wine
Yule Spells:
Merry Yule spell jar / Season of peace spell jar
Holiday ornament snow spell
Yule bath spell
Blessed Yule - for a positive holiday season
Winter solstice spell
Spell for a happy family gathering
Yule energy sun spell
Winter stasis spell sachet
Holiday home blessings
Safe delivery envelope spell
Yule wishing cones
Yule Tarot Spreads:
The return (2 card)
Yule spread (3 card)
Tarot spread for Yule (3 card)
Winter inspired spread (5 card)
Yule reflection + advice spread (5 card)
Winter solstice/Yule spread (6 card)
Other:
Music ideas / Winter witch playlist
Winter solstice simmer pot
Yule altar ideas
Mistletoe Lore
Emoji spell for luck during Yule and Solstice
Spell ideas for the holidays
Updated December of 2023. Please inform me of broken links via askbox!
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