Christmas is a weird time for pagans we all know that the date of birth of Jesus was sometime in the early spring and that Christmas day was moved to coincide with the winter solstice. The problem is Christmas is a big festival and many pagans where not born in to pagan families so still have a strong connection to Christmas day and what make it even harder is Christmas and Yule have the same symbolisation. So what does a good pagan do? Do you celebrate Christmas or are you militant and refuse to have anything to do with that Christian Festival! As a child Christmas was easy the 25th December went woke up present on bed, woke parent at silly oclock, visit Nan and granddad then other Nan and granddad would arrive around 12 give more presents, table would be in living room ready for lunch, during lunch a row would break out and the rest of the day was spent in silence and evening we played games. When I moved out at 16 and started my own life I could express my pagan path I refused to attend Christmas functions with family and friends or insured that I would work on Christmas day it was always easy to find someone to swap a shift. Christmas lost it appeal as a fun time it was a commercial event spend spend that all it was. It was in my mid 20s when I was chatting with a friend who mentioned that her 5-year son had
