how are the (pagan) seasonal holidays celebrated?

Question

specifically the summer and winter solstices and the spring and fall equinoxes

Answer 1

Usually the spirit of the season dictates or should I say encourages or inspires the celebration type. An example, on the longest night of the year, the night before the days begin to get longer we do a festival of light, something that says the spring is coming, that darkness has not won and they nights will become shorter. It is a celebration of hope on the longest darkest night of the year. Never let anyone tell you you MUST do something a certain way in pagan religions.

Answer 2

One of my friends is a Pagan, and Druid. She celebrated Beltane, and Samhain. She said elders and children formed circles, prayed to the angels, and elements of nature to give them power. They also did collect herbs around the summer solstice.

Winter solstice was celebrated by lighting up their houses as it was the shortest time of the year. To bring light into everyone's life and elevate the mood lights were used in Northern Hemisphere(Scandinavia area).

Hope this helps. There is alot of different ways people have celebrated depending the resources available in that area. Be Blessed.

Answer 3

It depends upon the person. Because the importance of the celebration is (supposedly) to be an expression of the celebrant, a cookie-cutter approach would only recreate the dogmatic reference from which Pagans are trying to escape.

Intent/the Spirit drives the celebration, or it is no celebration at all.

Answer 4

Who cares.

Answer 5

with voodoo dances and spooky masks duhh lol =P

Answer 6

ok