The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year, marking the start of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital ...

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.

For pagans, Litha represents a fight between light and dark, and between the ruler from the winter ... the annual Summer Solstice held at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. In Penzance, Cornwall, the Golowan ...