VIRGINIA — Winter weather isn’t bound by the calendar, but by what’s going on outside. Meteorologists consider Dec. 1 the start of winter. But the “official” start of the season in ...

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On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. Winter solstice marks the shortest day of ...

Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter solstice. Watch the full ...

For this reason, pagan and druid communities actually celebrate the first sunrise after the winter solstice. Traditionally, the winter solstice was a time when cattle were slaughtered, to save ...

Neo-pagan celebrations at Stonehenge gained popularity from the early C20th onwards. The summer solstice is an opportunity to celebrate the long summer days. The winter solstice reminds us that ...

Held to celebrate the pagan winter solstice, these feasts are believed to have included beef stews or pork cooked on spits, and also “crab apples, hazelnuts, sloes and blackberries”, said ...

Teh winter solstice is Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. Chris Sims is a digital content producer for Midwest Connect Gannett. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisFSims.

There’s nothing to look up and see at the moment of the solstice, but if you look up, you may see some shooting stars as the Geminid meteor shower winds down and the Ursid meteo ...