Take cues from ancient wisdom and shift your mindset to transform your winter experience from daunting to delightful.

The winter solstice, also known as the hibernal solstice, happens when either one of our planet’s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice every year, once for the ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

We asked a few of our Native friends to share traditions they’ve heard about the winter solstice. Their answers highlight winter as a time for storytelling. Dennis Zotigh "The Snow Snake Game ...

In ancient Rome, Saturnalia was a week-long festival of light running up to the winter solstice, where the social order was turned on its head - masters served their slaves, gambling was permitted ...

our days have less and less sunlight until we reach the winter solstice. What is it? It's the day of the year that has the least amount of daylight. It happens when the part of the world you are ...

If we can learn one thing from history, it’s that people have always celebrated winter holidays with good food. Ancient ...

Days getting shorter—the shortest day of the year is 7 weeks away when the Winter Solstice occurs in late December The winter solstice is 7 weeks away, falling on Dec. 21, 2024. The ancient ...

Here's when winter officially starts, when and what the winter solstice is, when we fall back and what to know about the ...