This month we conclude our late autumn theme of “Death and Life”, and with the Winter Solstice on December 21, we start a our early winter theme: “Beginnings”.

This Month at HP

Dec 1  “Death and Life” by Genevieve Wood

Dec 4  Starstuff, Contemplating: “Evolutionary Parenting and the Holidays” by Jon Cleland Host

Dec 8  “What if?” by Meg Pauken

Dec 11  Musings of a Pagan Mythicist: “Gnothi Seauton” by Maggie Jay Lee

Dec 15  Mid-Month Meditation: “The Role of Death in the Circle of Life” by Molly

Dec 18  A Pedagogy of Gaia: “Solstice connections” by Bart Everson

Dec 21  “An Ending, A Beginning” by Meg Pauken

Dec 22  New HP theme: “Beginnings”

Dec 22  Interview with B. T. Newberg

Dec 25  “Yes, Virginia, I’m a Pagan Atheist” by Jeffrey Flagg

Dec 29  “How I became a Naturalist”, A conversation between DT Strain and B. T. Newberg

Dec 31  Cosmic Calendar Special

Humanistic Paganism Calendar for December

Dec 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Dec 5 Cosmic Calendar: First multicellular life 1 bya

Dec 7 Apollo 17 crew photographs “The Blue Marble” photo

Dec 10 International Human Rights Day

Dec 14 Cosmic Calendar: Simple animals emerge 0.67 bya

Dec 14 Cosmic Calendar: Arthropods emerge 0.55 bya

Dec 18 Cosmic Calendar: Fish and proto-amphibians emerge 0.5 bya

Dec 20 Cosmic Calendar: Land plants emerge 0.45 bya

*Dec 21-22 Winter solstice (winter begins in U.S.) / Neo-Pagan winter quarter day (Yule)

Dec 21 Cosmic Calendar: Insects and seeds emerge 0.4 bya

Dec 22 Cosmic Calendar: Amphibians emerge 0.36 bya

Dec 23 Cosmic Calendar: Reptiles and dinosaurs emerge 0.3 bya

Dec 24 Apollo 8 crew photograph’s “Earthrise” photo

Dec 25 Newton’s birthday

Dec 26 Cosmic Calendar: Mammals emerge 0.2 bya

Dec 27 Cosmic Calendar: Birds emerge 0.15 bya

Dec 28 Cosmic Calendar: Flowers emerge 0.13 bya

Dec 30 Cosmic Calendar: Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event (non-avian dinosaurs die out) 65 mya

Dec 30 Cosmic Calendar: Primates emerge 65 mya

Dec 31 Cosmic Calendar: Hominids emerge 15 mya