Editing Wheel of the Year (section)

===Wicca and Druidry===
{{Further|Wiccan views of divinity}}

[[File:Wheel of the Year.JPG|thumb|Painted Wheel of the Year from the [[Museum of Witchcraft]], Boscastle]]
In [[Wicca]], the narrative of the Wheel of the Year traditionally centers on the [[sacred marriage]] of [[Wicca#The God and the Goddess|the God and the Goddess]] and the [[god]]/[[goddess]] duality. In this cycle, the God is perpetually born from the Goddess at Yule, grows in power at the [[vernal equinox (Northern Hemisphere)|vernal equinox]] (as does the Goddess, now in her ''maiden aspect''), courts and impregnates the Goddess at [[Beltane]], reaches his peak at the [[summer solstice]], wanes in power at [[Lammas]], passes into the underworld at [[Samhain]] (taking with him the fertility of the Goddess/Earth, who is now in her ''crone aspect'') until he is once again born from Her mother/crone aspect at Yule. The Goddess, in turn, ages and rejuvenates endlessly with the seasons, being courted by and giving birth to the [[Horned God]].<ref name=DruryModernMagicalRevival /><ref>{{cite book|author=Vivianne Crowley|title=Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age|location=London|publisher=Aquarian Press|year=1989|isbn=9780850307375|pages=162–200|author-link=Vivianne Crowley}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess: 20th Anniversary Edition|year=1999|publisher=HarperOne|location=San Francisco|isbn=9780062516329|pages=[https://archive.org/details/spiraldancerebir00star_0/page/197 197–213]|author=Starhawk|author-link=Starhawk|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/spiraldancerebir00star_0/page/197}}</ref>

Many Wiccan, [[modern Druids]], and eclectic modern pagans incorporate a narrative of the [[Holly King and Oak King]] as rulers of the waning year and the waxing year respectively. These two figures battle endlessly with the turning of the seasons. At the summer solstice, the Holly King defeats the Oak King and commences his reign.<ref name=fer>{{cite book|last1=Farrar|first1=Janet & Stewart Farrar; with line illustrations by Stewart|last2=Farrar|first2=photographs by Ian David & Stewart|title=A witches bible|date=1984|publisher=Magickal Childe|location=New York|isbn=093970806X}}</ref>{{rp|94}} After the [[Autumn equinox (Northern Hemisphere)|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.<ref name=fer />{{rp|137}}After the [[spring equinox (Northern Hemisphere)|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.<ref name=DruryModernMagicalRevival /><ref name="Farrars 1988">{{cite book|author=Farrar, Janet and Stewart|title=Eight Sabbats for Witches, revised edition|publisher=Phoenix Publishing|year=1988|isbn=0-919345-26-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Joanne Pearson|title=A Popular Dictionary of Paganism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3W02UMPejRwC |year=2002|pages=80|location=London|publisher=Taylor & Francis Ltd|isbn=9780700715916}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Carl McColman|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism|location=Indianapolis, IN|publisher=Alpha|year=2002|isbn=9780028642666|pages=121}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Raven Grimassi |title=Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kzp63ep-MlQC |year=2000|pages=219|location=St Paul, Minnesota|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|isbn=9781567182576}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Wigington|first=Patti|title=The Legend of the Holly King and the Oak King|url=http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/yulethelongestnight/p/Holly_KIng_Yule.htm|publisher=paganwiccan.about.com|access-date=25 October 2012|archive-date=29 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129233157/http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/yulethelongestnight/p/Holly_KIng_Yule.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>