What's your favorite holiday?

[Fausta]

What's your favorite Pagan holiday or festival, and why?

The Feast for the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law, April 8-10, starting from noon each day. If I manage to remember the dates... I'm really, truly horrible when it comes to remembering festival dates, have always been. To the point of standing alone on a bus stop on my way to school wondering why there aren't anybody else at the stop and no buses and only then figuring out it was a national holiday... Or last month wondering to myself at work why all the kids were wearing heart-shaped cards. OH, Valentine's Day!

[Louisvillian]

What's your favorite Pagan holiday or festival, and why?

Beltane and Samhain, in its plethora of forms.



For Beltane, its because of the sexual and fertility aspects of it. I'm a very sex-positive person; I was never raised to think of sex as something shameful or bad. Wicca's inherent sex-positivity is one of the things that has drawn me to it. Beltane celebrates that, along with general growth and renewal. To me, it's a festival of passion and positive change.

For Samhain, I must admit it's in part due to its proximity to Halloween, which is my favourite civic holiday. But aside from that, it's a beautiful and strange festival. It's a celebration of death and rebirth, of examining how we deal with death and community. Its a very "how to deal with others" type of festival, which I find is a great balance to the more individual-centred holidays that focus on personal growth and desires. Its Celtic roots also held to this notion of community, which continues in modern Halloween.