The annual cycle of Pagan holidays is often called the Wheel of the Year. As it turns, we live a repetitive cycle of psycho-dramas that teach us about how to live on our planet. The cycle becomes deeply imbedded in our subconscious minds, and somehow our lives become a little easier and a little more meaningful in the process.

Few people realize how hard it is to live the endless march of the seasons over and over again when it means literally nothing to us – and it means nothing to most of humanity today. But the cycle of life does have real meaning, and it is meaning that always was – and still is – crucial to our survival. Our holidays are designed to teach us what that meaning is.

Again, this is an experiential religion. By actually living these holidays and reflecting on their meaning to us, most of us discover that our lives work for us just a little better, and that is all that matters to us.  

Individual and coven traditions vary widely. What I present here is a blend of what I was first taught and what I have since worked out for myself. It is unique to my own experience and may apply to yours very little, if at all. The underlying core traditions of the Wheel of the Year, however, date from a time when humanity first learned that a cooperative hunt was often more successful than an individual hunt, when men and women first sat together and wondered why the sun moved from north to south and back again, and why days grew shorter and then longer again. These are archetypal festivals from humanity’s innocence.

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