My holiday season

In many Pagan and folk traditions, the end of April and early May is almost like a second Halloween, a threshold season. I’ve never really been into the hype around Halloween and the cultural wave of witchy kitsch that rolls through. I mean the pumpkin spice and the chocolate is nice, but I’ve always been frustrated by everyone wanting to pretend to be a magic practitioner or an entity from folklore, and then mocking people who believe in these things the rest of the year. I feel like I’m the only one who identifies this way, but I have this intense need for celebration. Very akin to how I feel going from Halloween, which I have mixed views on, to Thanksgiving, and then into winter solstice season. The drag for me when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas is that I am usually mostly on my own. But the transitional period we are in right now heading towards summer solstice doesn’t carry the same weight. It does however carry a parallel celebratory energy. And the fact that I’ve been feeling it lately in my bones tells me one thing. It’s time to lean into this. If only there were summer solstice decor widely available.