As the ritual closed and the evening wound to an end, attendees enjoyed a community potluck and friendly conversation. With the scent of incense still hanging heavy in the air, ritual participants ...

Whether by brewing a cleansing tea, baking a honeyed bannock, or leaving a symbolic offering to nature — engaging in these ...

Dr Fiona Murphy says traditions like The Biddy on 1 February remind us of the threads that hold us together as a people.

Punxsutawney Phil, famed groundhog and weather predictor extraordinaire, typically makes his predictions early on Sunday morning.

Let's celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but ...

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the ...

The Slieve Bloom Association will be marking the pagan festival of Imbolc on Spink mountain (Bracket Stone) near Cadamstown during which goats will be milked. Anyone who wishes to participate in this ...

Brighid's caoineadh is like the Tibetan ritual of ushering souls to nirvana in the Book of the Dead. The Irish tradition of making crosses on Imbolc or Lá Fhéile Bhríde (St. Brigid's Day ...

Other neopagans observe the holiday with rituals taken from numerous other unrelated sources, Celtic cultures being only one of the sources used. Imbolc is usually celebrated by modern Pagans on ...

The weather-predicting groundhog celebrity has met two presidents and drinks a life-extending elixir: "Our Phil is like, ...