The Wheel of the Year is a symbolic calendar used in various modern pagan and Wiccan traditions ... Solstices mark the periods when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at ...

The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. The holiday is thought to celebrate the sun's return ... as an important symbol, and people ...

It has been said that St. Patrick combined the Christian cross with the pagan sun to give the newly converted ... and the Celtic Cross became not only a religious symbol but an emblem of Celtic ...