The Wheel of the Year is a symbolic calendar used in various modern pagan and Wiccan ... often involving rituals to connect with the spirit world. Yule, or the Winter Solstice, occurs around ...

humanity has celebrated the event with pagan rituals that involve feasts, bonfires, dances and singing to reconnect with nature and the magic of summer. For the Swedes, the summer solstice is a ...

It has links to ancient beliefs, including the Greek and Roman gods and paganism ... a look at some of the international ...

(Fittingly, storks return to Europe from Africa about 9 months after the summer solstice.) After the founding ... incanted ‘so help me God’ during the ritual, a clear example of the entanglement of ...

The summer solstice happens when the angle of tilt ... And over the last 100 years or so, there has been a revival of ancient pagan traditions and worship including celebrations held at Stonehenge ...

The Summer Solstice occurs on June 20 and will affect ... Around the world, people will celebrate the event with various rituals — and many will also likely feel the emotional affects of the ...

The summer solstice is almost here ... to the gods at the Temple of the Earth during the solstice, according to English Heritage. Some traditions linked to the solstice have carried on until ...

Ivan Kupala is a pagan ritual celebrated in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus which originally marked the summer solstice But as Christianity came to the region it assimilated the celebrations and moved ...