The Wheel of the Year is a medicine wheel marked and celebrated by most, indigenous cultures around the earth in their own ways. In Ireland, the ancient ones measured their cosmos in wheels, spirals, ...

Snow torches representing the return of the sun are used in a symbolic battle against winter in Huddersfield, England, in February of 2012. Getty Images/Bethany Clarke While some Americans looked to ...

Pagans participate in torchlight ceremonies during Imbolc to celebrate the coming of spring. Flickr While many were watching to see whether the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring in ...

Druids and Celtic gods paraded through the streets of a northern English village as locals gathered to watch a ritual battle between winter and spring unfold in an ancient ritual with roots dating ...

CARBONDALE — The Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance hosts its first public ritual of the new year with Imbolc on Feb. 1 at the Gaia House Interfaith Center in Carbondale. Imbolc is the midwinter ...

New beginnings and the approach of spring feature in Imbolc, a traditional Gaelic festival. Marking the halfway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox, the annual celebration falls on ...

It must have seemed at odds with the cold weather sweeping most of the country. As much of the UK shivered in freezing temperatures and grappled with snow and ice, here was a group of sun worshippers ...

Imbolc has been celebrated for centuries (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Imbolc is a pagan holiday celebrated from February 1 through sundown February 2, marking the start of the end of winter, or ...