Posted by Delia on 12/21/2006, 10:44 am, in reply to "Um HUh" In addition to the four great festivals of the Pagan Celtic year, there are four lesser holidays as well: the two solstices, and the two equinoxes. In folklore, these are referred to as the four “quarter days” of the year, and modern Witches call them the four “Lesser Sabbats”, or the four “Low Holidays”. The summer solstice is one of them. "However, since most European peasants were not accomplished at reading an ephemeris or did not live close enough to Salisbury Plain to trot over to Stonehenge and sight down its main avenue, they celebrated the event on a fixed calendar date, June 24. The slight forward displacement of the traditional date is the result of multitudinous calendrical changes down through the ages. It is analogous to the winter solstice celebration, which is astronomically on or about December 21, but is celebrated on the traditional date of December 25, Yule, later adopted by the Christians." I've linked that entire page below, hope this is of help. If it's of any consequence, I've got a Wiccan calendar here that I purchased from Amazon, and Yule is listed here as December 21st. Hope this helps, Delia xx Link: Yule
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Hi Mazy - From what I have read on Yule, dates have never been quite certain, but from what I gather, most celebration starts December 21st - here's a passage on it:
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