My friends at the Pagan shop have a big sale day to celebrate Mabon, and that's where I'll mostly be tomorrow. I need to get a better rhythm going with the Wheel of the Year. My big-deal day is always Samhain, though.
I have two Thanksgiving celebrations that I traditionally do that correlate with US Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the anniversary of when I went vegan, and I like to honor that day as a day of Thanksgiving for the things I am thankful for in my life. I like to treat it as a day of celebration because until the year I went vegan, it was always a miserable day for me, and now it's not! Also, my friends in New York and I had a tradition of getting together the day before Thanksgiving and having a vegan potluck. We called it "Unthanksgiving" and it was kinda more of a day of mourning than a day of celebration. I didn't do it last year because I didn't go back to NY for the holiday and I wasn't really in that kind of consciousness to have a day of mourning "party"...but I dunno what I'll do this year! (So, both "both" and "other" apply to me. As usual.)
I have never celebrated Christmas before, so I don't really know how, but this year I will probably celebrate it because my housemate celebrates Christmas and my church choirs all celebrate Christmas. I always try to do something for Yule because that was the first Pagan holiday I celebrated. I'm most used to celebrating Hanukkah because I grew up Jewish. Last year I integrated a little Kwanzaa celebration into my consciousness and I got a lot out of that.
I pretty much like to celebrate as much as humanly possible. All the time. :D
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Date: 2007-09-22 12:31 am (UTC)I have two Thanksgiving celebrations that I traditionally do that correlate with US Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the anniversary of when I went vegan, and I like to honor that day as a day of Thanksgiving for the things I am thankful for in my life. I like to treat it as a day of celebration because until the year I went vegan, it was always a miserable day for me, and now it's not! Also, my friends in New York and I had a tradition of getting together the day before Thanksgiving and having a vegan potluck. We called it "Unthanksgiving" and it was kinda more of a day of mourning than a day of celebration. I didn't do it last year because I didn't go back to NY for the holiday and I wasn't really in that kind of consciousness to have a day of mourning "party"...but I dunno what I'll do this year! (So, both "both" and "other" apply to me. As usual.)
I have never celebrated Christmas before, so I don't really know how, but this year I will probably celebrate it because my housemate celebrates Christmas and my church choirs all celebrate Christmas. I always try to do something for Yule because that was the first Pagan holiday I celebrated. I'm most used to celebrating Hanukkah because I grew up Jewish. Last year I integrated a little Kwanzaa celebration into my consciousness and I got a lot out of that.
I pretty much like to celebrate as much as humanly possible. All the time. :D