Religion is a celebration. Here are four events you can celebrate with friends and family, to remember what is important, to emphasize community and close bonds. These celebrations recognize the changes of time and season, and the stages of our own lives, and the lives of those we care about. Write us and let us know the ways you celebrate these events. Add your own expression of these days, so that its your holiday. Celebrate and enjoy.

-- New Light Celebration. --

Celebrated on the New moon after winter solstice (December 27, 2008). In this time of least light and shortest days, we can take the initiative to light the way ourselves for each other. Candles are lit to represent our desire to create light for each other. Evergreen wreaths symbolize the continuity of life even in the coldest and darkest times. It’s a time to realize that when things are bleak, we can make light and warmth for each other, as a gesture of caring to each other. When it is darkest, we give light.

-- The Green Feast --

It’s a day to celebrate renewal, rebirth and transformation from death to life. On this day we have a feast to share with each other, to remember the bounty that comes to us, that great blessings are given to us by God, and that a bounty of hope and opportunity and renewal is always present. The day of the Green Feast is the day after the new moon after the spring equinox, when the moon has started waxing (March 27, 2009). Lots of green things are put out to remind us how natural rebirth and change is every spring, and how its transformation is a part of out lives, new birth, new growth, new beginnings. To emphasize the point of new birth, fasting or silence or not-changing is done during the daylight hours on the 3 days prior to the Green Feast.

-- Victory Day --

Celebrated on the Summer Solstice (June 21, 2009), this day and night are for celebrating intentional action, and the powerful victory our will and decisions can provide. Guided by a vision of good, a will to compassion, and our own personal strength, we can make a positive, nurturing change in our lives, in the lives of others, and in our world. It’s a day to appreciate and laud the great things a life can bring, a day to celebrate the fullness of life we can build as a part of God’s creative victory. Gold, orange and red colors express the vibrancy and energy of this day, of our victory over apathy and fear. Bonfires and partys at night celebrate our bringing light and energy into the darkness.

-- Quiet Day--

This day is one of not-doing, of being quiet and non-creative, not changing things, not working, not building. Celebrated on the Autumnal eqinox (September 22, 2008), it’s a day for giving things away, freeing things, ending things. It’s a day you don’t take things, you don’t gather things, you don’t begin things. You stay quiet, you meditate, you rest. You set things aside, but you don’t change things. It’s a day you let the process around you move through without reaching out and changing the world. This event helps us keep mindful of patience and of the ebb-and-flow of life. We can often be active and creative, but there are also times that the process will carry us along too, that we can let great things happen without our input. God’s creation exists before us here, and after us here. At night we have a meal of uncooked foods. All meals should be, if possible, prepared the day before.

God’s creation of the universe is still going on right now, right here, and it is being created with your help through loving, nurturing interaction with our world. This religion seeks to strengthen and empower each person’s relationship to God, to other beings, and to themselves as God’s creations.

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