The winter solstice holiday marks the shortest day of the year and celebrates the returning sun. At their home in Wichita, Orin Hart is preparing for Circle of the Stag’s annual Yule ritual. Hart is a ...

You know the usual winter holidays — Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve. There’s also Saint Lucia Day, Boxing Day, and a little something called the Winter Solstice. For the Northern ...

In Southwestern Wisconsin, preparation is underway for Circle Sanctuary's 50th annual Yule festival. For the pagan members the church serves, it marks winter solstice, the longest night of the year in ...

(The Conversation) — Yule, celebrated by Wiccans and many other Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere on Dec. 21, the day of the winter solstice, is a time for reflection. (The Conversation) — Yule will ...

Shrines to earth, fire, air and water made four points. A bottle of wine, chalice and cauldron on a Celtic altar made the fifth -- the five points of the pagan pentagram in a Rowland Avenue back yard.

A woman wearing a head torch forms a light trail across the standing stones during the evening of the winter solstice at the Castlerigg stone circle on Dec. 21, 2014, in Keswick, England. The circle ...

Orin Hart, a High Priestex of the Wiccan coven Circle of the Stag, holds a ceremonial dagger used during rituals. At their home in Wichita, Orin Hart is preparing for Circle of the Stag’s annual Yule ...

Helen A. Berger is a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Yule will ...