Depending on how you define 'celebrate' somewhere between my mid teens, mid twenties or maybe as late as my mid fifties. Initially because I was not Christian, despite my mother's expectation, and...
- Depending on how you define 'celebrate' somewhere between my mid teens, mid twenties or maybe as late as my mid fifties.
- Initially because I was not Christian, despite my mother's expectation, and was not in sympathy with the whole capitalist splurge side of it but also I just wasn't really organised enough to do anything that could be considered actively celebrating it. Later because I discovered that pagan was the best word to describe my beliefs, and more recently because my wife decided that she no longer wanted to.
- I think that my family had come to expect it from me anyway and, at that point, I would go along with it if they were doing things for it so it didn't make a great deal of difference. Later, the majority of my close friends were also pagan, so no issues there. More recently - well all my friends have long been aware of my beliefs, so no significant change really.
- I celebrate Brumalia (starting Nov 24th, Vives Annos!. We have an advent- style calender, and progressively devorate the house with holly, ivy, cones etc) Saturnalia (Io Saturnalia!) and the solstice itself, which we are doing this evening and tomorrow.