I’ve started using the Celtic calendar to mark the seasons. I don’t have kids or a summer break, so it just helps avoid frustration at the weather. It fits better with the seasons where I live. It puts the solstices and equinoxes as the “peak” of the season instead of the beginning of the season like US calendars do. This is closer to how the weather works where I live in California.
Summer starts in the beginning of May (Beltane/May Day), peaks in June on the longest day of the year (Midsummer/Litha/Summer Solstice) and ends in the beginning of August (Lughnasadh/Lamas/First Harvest).
This also means that Christmas/Winter Solstice/Yule is peak winter, not the “first day of winter” which always seemed stupid to me, and Halloween is the closing of Fall.
You get 8, evenly spaced holidays per year and they have nothing to do with Blue Eyed Jesus OR capitalism!! And they work just fine if you’re an atheist, you can just celebrate the Earth’s relative position to the sun.
Add the full moons and you’re never far from a holiday.
I’ve started using the Celtic calendar to mark the seasons. I don’t have kids or a summer break, so it just helps avoid frustration at the weather. It fits better with the seasons where I live. It puts the solstices and equinoxes as the “peak” of the season instead of the beginning of the season like US calendars do. This is closer to how the weather works where I live in California.
Summer starts in the beginning of May (Beltane/May Day), peaks in June on the longest day of the year (Midsummer/Litha/Summer Solstice) and ends in the beginning of August (Lughnasadh/Lamas/First Harvest).
This also means that Christmas/Winter Solstice/Yule is peak winter, not the “first day of winter” which always seemed stupid to me, and Halloween is the closing of Fall.
If you’re trying to convert me to paganism, it’s working.
You get 8, evenly spaced holidays per year and they have nothing to do with Blue Eyed Jesus OR capitalism!! And they work just fine if you’re an atheist, you can just celebrate the Earth’s relative position to the sun.
Add the full moons and you’re never far from a holiday.