Wishing you all an enjoyable St Patrick’s Day from Ireland
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Happy Persian New Year, Nowruz/Nooruz to all the Reds around the world who celebrate it.
First time Eid and Nowruz have come at the same time.
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That is going to ‘trigger’ a lot of flag shaggers 
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Happy Easter.
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শুভ নববর্ষ. Shoovo Nobo-borso, that’s happy new year in Bangla. Celebrated the beginning of 1433 with a nice lunch.
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Is the UK bank holiday today related Pfingsten here in Germany?
Yeah, Whitsun.
Nobody knows what it is. Something to do with the Holy Ghost, whatever that is.
Too many holidays bunched together in my opinion. I’d have holidays for summer and winter solstices and the equinoxes.
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You should put your 
on display @Iftikhar :0)
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Now that you mention, we didn’t have fried brinjal which is usually a must for such occasions.
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Happy Solstice Everyone.
It’s a wonderful day to remember we are all part of the celestial dance of spheres.
Glory be to that 
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Do you usually celebrate it ?
I understand it is rare many places, but where I am from we light big bonfires and it is a real cozy traditonal event. We call it Jonsok (old Norwegian refering to John the baptist), from old. In eastern Norway, they call it St. Hans (modern Danish), but they don’t really celebrate it at all and don’t light fires and have barbeques around a bonfire like we do on the coast.
I am traveling to Oslo on Jonsok (24th this year). There won’t be any event there. Feels odd !
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Jonsok/St.Hans is the “Christianisation” of Old pagan Solstice, in case it was not clear (but I know you understand that, Bekloppt).
I celebrate Solstice and Equinox Mag.
My belief is that Nature is divine, and that these moments are sacred.
I don’t get drunk or jump over bonfires, but I celebrate inwardly.
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Nice 
(I don’t get drunk either, since there are usually children and multiple families gathering around various fires, since not everyone can build their own bonfire down at the sea).
Enjoy your personal celebration !
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I do, although more so when I lived in Scotland. The part of Germany we live in is predominantly Catholic, and I think our neighbours were worried when we moved in that we would be erecting stone circles and wicker-men.
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It’s amusing, since it was indeed Catholic missionaries (agrarians) who decided to mix the pagan events with the Christian events, since it was then much more easier to Christianise northern Europe (the common folk would have been very hard to sway if they took away their “blots”; so instead they gradually altered the meaning of them instead). After the reformation, a lot of these ancient festivals that lived on after conversion, eventually died out due to far stricter Protestant intepretation and rules (with penalties from the king if one broke them).
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