It is a fairly safe guess that most of us were raised in a Judeo-Christian tradition, and that the seasonal celebrations of our parents and grandparents were some of the most wonderful times of our childhood. As we grew up, we questioned the religious beliefs of our parents, and eventually many of us found our way back to the old gods and the old religion.
One of the most painful parts of this spiritual quest was having to give up those wonderful family traditions that gave us so much joy in our childhood.
But it isn’t so. Some of the most wonderful traditions practiced by our parents and grandparents are purely Pagan in origin. So go ahead and celebrate the customs of your childhood. Send Valentines, dye Eostre’s eggs, bring a fir tree into your house and decorate it with ornaments that came down through the family, and know in your Pagan heart that what you do is a traditional way of honoring the old Pagan gods. And when someone says to you, “I thought you were a Pagan. Why do you have a Christmas tree in your house?” you can look them straight in the eye and say, “Because it’s a Pagan tradition—why do you?”