Oak King and commences his reign. After the Autumn equinox the Oak King slowly begins to regain his power as the sun begins to wane. Come the winter solstice the Oak King in turn vanquishes the Holly King.After the spring equinox the sun begins to wax again and the Holly King slowly regains his strength until he once again defeats the Oak King at the summer solstice. The two are ultimately seen as essential parts of a whole, light and dark aspects of the male God, and would not exist without each other. The Holly King is often portrayed as a woodsy figure, similar to the modern Santa Claus, dressed in red with sprigs of holly in his hair and the Oak King as a fertility god. See also Ember days, quarterly periods (usually three days) of prayer and fasting in the liturgical calendar of Western Christian churches. List of neo-pagan festivals and events Medicine wheel, metaphor for a variety of Native American spiritual concepts Solar terms, year's divisions in China and East Asia Calendars Celtic calendar Gaelic calendar Welsh seasonal festivals Germanic calendar Runic calendar Hellenic calendars Attic calendar Macedonian calendar Roman calendar Roman festivals References External links Astronomical cusps and pagan holidays Celebrating the Seasons at Circle Sanctuary Sun Moon calendar Festival Calendar for the Indo-Europeans Atheopagan Sabbaths Modern pagan holidays Time in religion Wicca Neo-druidism 1950s in modern paganism cs:Sabat (wicca)