Since I'm leaning towards nature worship and always have depression attacks around this time of year, I feel I should say I'm celebrating by hibernating and then not leave my room till March.
I celebrate stuffmas, which looks suspiciously like christmas, just without the nativity scenes. there's only an angel on top of my tree because I don't have anything else to top it with. it's the holiday of giving people shit to show you care about them, eating way too many sweets, and putting colorful lights all over everything.
The winter holidays are important to me because I need something to look forward to in the cold months. This year it's vanilla Christian Christmas, 'cause I'm living with my mom, but I try to do some kind of private Nature-respecting observance on the solstices and equinoxes. I watched an interesting video explaining what we know about Roman Saturnalia practices, and I think if I were living with other pagans I'd want to try and incorporate it into the festivities somehow, but alas.
/3am coherency warning, so I'll need to revisit this. I was thinking of small gods, of spirits of everything. Animism might be more the concept I was going for. Like an image made of points, or a body made of cells, so a goduniverse made of many many gods of all sorts.
I'm also celebrating Christmas since I'm with my parents, but I also planned to light a candle for the night before the solstice (since it happens during the day here). Sadly, I don't have any candles that are big enough.
Basically, this: Though we do it without the presents, since there's a different holiday for that earlier in December (Sinterklaas). We also don't have a Christmas tree, because putting one up qualifies as way-too-much-work and we have young and excitable cats.
