Santa Claus, a figure synonymous with the winter holiday season, has an intriguing history that intertwines Christian traditions with ancient pagan roots.

For your listening pleasure, and your nightmare leisure.

Rich with symbolism, Imbolc is the first herald of the returning sun. Perched inside our warm abodes, we look to the future and know it will inevitably be brighter. With the cold all around us but the sun on the eastern horizon, it’s a perfect time to review the past year and make adjustments for the coming one.

Many of us live with folks who are of different or no faiths. The Winter Solstice can be an excellent cross-cultural winter holiday that everyone can participate in.

Winter Solstice is the celebration of the return of the sun. While this is the day with the shortest amount of sunlight from here forward the days will get longer and the sun higher in the sky. Because of this, any food that suggests or invokes the sun is a perfect fit.

Some tips from a witch, for communicating with your beloved dead at this time of year.

Samhain represents the threshold between life and death, and between death and rebirth. Connect with your beloved ancestors who are behind the thin veil.

Reflections on the Equinox, the fall, the second year of pandemic-living.

The full moon around Midsummer is potent. Here’s some correspondences you can work with to make your magic super juicy & some ideas for reconnecting with the spirits of the land, and your highest self.

Beltaine - the sexyest holyday! But not always. It can be just for fires and cattle-blessing and such.

Was St. Patrick actually Irish? Enslaved by Pirates? And what do the snakes even mean? As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, we found a few things we bet you didn’t know about him.

We started following the traditional wheel of the year many years ago after a rather harrowing Christmas season. We do a kind of cross-over, or what I call ‘seasonal celebrations’.

Anyone with an Aquarius signature in your life could tell you that true love is freedom - and isn’t that what Aquarius Season is about?

We live in a death-denying culture. What would be like if we knew that when we die, everything was going to be ok?

Halloween is actually a traditional pagan holiday called Samhain, with roots in old-time European cultures. Here’s the back-story.

Amidst a potential second wave of Covid, an international racism crisis, kids going back to school (or not) and extreme weather events, we move into the Autumn Equinox season, 2020. Here’s some ways to immerse and observe it.

Beltane is the season when the fairy hosts leave their hill forts and travel across the land. Are you prepared to meet them?

I love the way holidays create the illusion of time standing still. No-one has to be anywhere. No clocks to punch or meetings to rush around for. Today is quiet.

I’ve always believed in ghosts, spirits, elementals and in the basic animistic nature of our world – everything is alive. But it wasn’t until I had my own child that I began to step up and practice molding my life around those beliefs. Here’s a bit about Halloween and kids.

My Samhain altar this year is dedicated to my ancestors, my family, my husband’s ancestors and our recently departed. Here’s a sweet little altar share.