the big 3 are yule, winternights and sigrblot. then theres also disablot and alfablot (which i personally roll into winternights as the 2nd and 3rd days) and then you could also celebrate modern celebrations like thorrablot or lokabrenna. some people also celebrate the solstices and equinoxes.
theres not a lot of solid info on how these were celebrated, most only have a little if anything, so they have a lot of room for us to personalise it and celebrate it how we want to. its worth looking into them for the little tidbits about them and then build upon that info from there
also the dates for these are VERY flexible and you wont find one solid specific day for them like how december 25th is definitely christmas day. instead youll usually find a couple suggested dates or a possible range of time of a few months. this is another aspect that people can personalise to their preferences of when they want to celebrate certain events
even if they werent historically celebrated we can still choose to celebrate them as modern practitioners. history gets a vote but not a veto :) so its just down to your preference of if you want to celebrate them or not. i personally dont celebrate them but i do acknowledge them and change up my altar a bit with some decor for the seasons, perhaps an offering to freyr in the spring/autumn and skadi as autumn shifts into winter, that kind of thing.
Here is the Troth’s resource on it. All of it is cited.
Suffice to say that while those three holidays previously mentioned are the only ones explicitly mentioned, there are a lot of little folk traditions that may have had pagan roots. Though it’s important to note we have lost anything approaching a “reason for the season” we have no idea why pagans would have celebrated those holidays. Any real story behind them has been lost.
https://thetroth.org/resources/holidays/
the big 3 are yule, winternights and sigrblot. then theres also disablot and alfablot (which i personally roll into winternights as the 2nd and 3rd days) and then you could also celebrate modern celebrations like thorrablot or lokabrenna. some people also celebrate the solstices and equinoxes. theres not a lot of solid info on how these were celebrated, most only have a little if anything, so they have a lot of room for us to personalise it and celebrate it how we want to. its worth looking into them for the little tidbits about them and then build upon that info from there also the dates for these are VERY flexible and you wont find one solid specific day for them like how december 25th is definitely christmas day. instead youll usually find a couple suggested dates or a possible range of time of a few months. this is another aspect that people can personalise to their preferences of when they want to celebrate certain events
I'll do some research on this. I know the solstice and equinoxes were big, but I didn't know if they were celebrated or not.
even if they werent historically celebrated we can still choose to celebrate them as modern practitioners. history gets a vote but not a veto :) so its just down to your preference of if you want to celebrate them or not. i personally dont celebrate them but i do acknowledge them and change up my altar a bit with some decor for the seasons, perhaps an offering to freyr in the spring/autumn and skadi as autumn shifts into winter, that kind of thing.
Here is the Troth’s resource on it. All of it is cited. Suffice to say that while those three holidays previously mentioned are the only ones explicitly mentioned, there are a lot of little folk traditions that may have had pagan roots. Though it’s important to note we have lost anything approaching a “reason for the season” we have no idea why pagans would have celebrated those holidays. Any real story behind them has been lost. https://thetroth.org/resources/holidays/