There's a tradition of an Easter ham?

Modern Paganism is unfortunate in that it is made up of Intuitive Souls who nevertheless crave Prescriptive Absolutes.

Wise words as ever (I'm tempted to quote at much greater length but won't). I'm very suspicious of the urge to connect with a deep dark past where the symbols were alive, although to some extent I feel it myself. Apart from anything else, if you switched on your live symbol detector and started digging through the past, you'd have hundreds of years of specifically Christian symbols pinging away at you before you ever reached anything pagan - and yet it's never Lammas or Epiphany that ignite the imagination of contemporary revivalists, always Samhain or Saturnalia. Perhaps they just don't like the look of the people they'd meet at the local church.

Anyway, here's wishing a good depths-of-winter firelight-food-and-fellowship festival to all.