Celebrate Life with Our Alternative Holiday Calendar for 2024

We’ve all been there—going through the motions during the holiday season, feeling disconnected from the seasons and the actual meaning of the celebrations.

What if I told you there are well-researched, intentional alternatives to the mainstream commercialized holidays that we’re so accustomed to?

Designed for folks like you and me, who seek to infuse intentionality, nature, and joy into our lives, our Alternative Holiday Wall Calendar is a culmination of years of research.

I’ve scoured history books and sociology texts, dug deep into religious studies, and read peer reviewed science to uncover 56 alternative, earth-centric holidays and healthy traditions.

Why Choose Our Calendar with Alternative Holidays?

• This calendar acts as a gentle reminder, offering a day-by-day plan to explore new ways of being happy and connected to the natural world around us.
• I don’t know about you, but I feel stressed out after planning and participating in the standard modern holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc). Aren’t holidays supposed to leave you relaxed and mentally centered?
• Let’s get real. Life gets busy, especially around the holidays. Auto-pilot mode kicks in, and we often forget to live in the moment.

Sample Alternative Holidays for 2024

The calendar includes 56 total holidays spread throughout 2024!

These special traditions range from celebrating the natural cycles of the moon and seasons, to carving out time to acknowledge the power of science and learning, to mindfully reconnecting with the elements of fire, water, and the earth.

Here are just a few of the holidays:

1. Winter Solstice (Yule) – A pagan celebration of the rebirth of the sun. People often build a Yule log, prepare a feast, and welcome the return of longer days. It’s a refreshing way to connect with nature when the mainstream holidays leave you craving more.
2. National Mason Jar Day – Taking a few intentionally planned minutes to celebrate the long lasting sustainability of Mason Jars will help reinforce healthy, earth friendly decisions in your daily life.
3. Spring Equinox (Ostara) – Focusing on rebirth and renewal, Ostara traditions often involve planting new seeds (both metaphorically and literally) and spending time outdoors. Imagine swapping your plastic eggs for planting an herb garden.
4. Geminids Meteor Shower – The Geminids are the king of the meteor showers. Celebrating this cosmic event is sure to reconnect you and your family to the natural world.
5. Supermoon – For 25,000 years humans planned their daily lives on the cycles of the moon. Evolution takes a long time, but we’ve only used computers for the last 40 years! Our brains and spirits still need to look at the moon and stars once in a while to feel centered and at peace with ourselves and our surroundings.

And every single tradition includes their own blog post and scannable QR code!

How much does it cost?

The Alternative Holiday Calendar is priced at $19.99 (plus shipping), this physical wall calendar isn’t just a way to mark time; it’s a journey through various cultures and a lesson in nature based mindfulness.

Ready for a Refreshing Year?

Don’t let your past habits, family traditions, or even religious affiliations restrict your joy or sense of belonging.

With this calendar, you’re not just marking time; you’re making time meaningful. It’s like a religious studies course, an anthropology lesson, and a personal development workshop all rolled into one, backed by peer-reviewed studies and real-world experience.

Friends, the choice to follow an “average” life is just that—a choice. You have the power to rewrite your narrative. Grab an Alternative Holiday Calendar for 2024, for you and perhaps a friend, and make 2024 a year of rediscovery and meaningful celebrations.

Why This Calendar Is More Than Just Dates to Me

If you’ve found your way to this page and all the way to the bottom, you’re probably seriously considering our Alternative Holiday Wall Calendar for 2024. But before you decide if it’s for you, let me share why this calendar is a personal success story and very close to my heart.

For years, my wife and I stumbled our way through the standard holidays. We’d look forward to them, hoping for a break from the 9-to-5 work and career grind. Yet, every time they rolled around, instead of feeling rejuvenated, we’d feel more drained and stressed out than before the actual holiday! Maybe you can relate?

One night, after a particularly exhausting Christmas, my wife and I were spread out on the living room couch and I had a random thought… “Why not have our own set of holidays? Celebrations that truly rejuvenate us?” That’s when the idea of this calendar was born.

You see, both of us believe that:

• Nature connects us all. Whether you hail from the East or the West, grew up reading the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita, there’s one thing that unites us: our planet. This Earth is home to us all, and it’s high time we revered and celebrated it.
• Nature heals. After a trek through the woods or a day by the ocean, we’d come home feeling so much lighter, mentally and physically. And dare to say, even ready for a full work week. So, we knew that our calendar had to be peppered with nature-centric holidays!
• Science is our compass. With my background in sociology and data analysis, plus a deep appreciation for science, we’ve peppered this calendar with tidbits from peer-reviewed studies, giving each celebration strong scientific reasons to celebrate it.
• Ancient wisdom has its place. Our ancestors knew how to harness the rhythms of the Earth, and we can learn so much from them. By incorporating age-old practices, we aim to help us all rediscover our roots. Checkout the blog for more on how our ancestors celebrated the seasons.
• Mindfulness over mindlessness. Let’s face it, our screens often know more about us than we do. By integrating mindfulness practices into our holidays, we hope to pull ourselves – and you – back into the present.

Now, I won’t beat around the bush. This calendar is as much for me as it is for you. In fact, here’s a picture of our calendar, already hanging proud on our wall, just waiting to guide us through 2024.

Financially? I make a couple dollars on each wall calendar sale. Just enough to cover the basics, like keeping this website afloat. But, more than money, what I truly want is to get these alternative nature based ideas out to people like you and I. Because if more of us celebrate nature-centric holidays I think our society will be in a better place.

If a wall calendar doesn’t fit your style or your budget, I’ve also created an eco friendly digital calendar for your Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook. When you purchase the $5 digital version, you’ll immediately receive a downloadable calendar file along with easy to follow instructions on how to import all 56 holidays into your online calendar. The upload process takes about 2 minutes and you’ll be set for the year!

If you believe in a life more attuned to nature and self, celebrate with us in 2024! Follow our Instagram and chat about this calendar with your friends.

Here’s to a revitalized, intentional 2024!

Warmly,

Dan