Wiccan Wheel of the year

Although in modern times , thanks to the likes of Gerald Gardener the main celebrations have become these 8 major Sabbats, and have been widely accepted by many modern pagans including druids and some witches.

There are many more "Pagan" celebrations from around the world that are still celebrated to some degree today.

A list of these, but no means a complete list can be found on the Pagans of the North Website 

Many Christians will find the dates of these festivals familiar, that is mainly because many of the Christian festivals and celebrations were placed on or around Pagan celebrations to make assimilation, peaceful conversion, natural religious change, persecution, and of course the military conquest of pagan peoples easier.

This included building churches over existing pagan religious sites, this can still be seen in the Vatican today with many Christian statues placed in front of the pagan ones.

Although many of these pagan practices carried on underground in some places it was all but stamped out, the Druids of Anglesey being a prime example, ordered to be suppressed by Tiberius in the 1st century, they were all but eradicated by the 2nd century. but you cant keep a good religion down. Druidry was revived in the 17th/18th century and is still practiced today.

There are many Pagan groups around the planet with their own views on what the old religions were and how they fit into modern day,

Although myself i am an eclectic Pagan, which means i don't follow any one path, i have done my own research, i have my own beliefs which are embedded in the planet and its survival, its seasons and its beauty.

Having been a part of a group, a coven and now as a solitary practitioner, the one thing that i take from modern paganism is this:

“If it harm none, do what you will,”