Upside down Christmas trees: Meaning, history and how to style
Upside down Christmas trees have been around for centuries but the festive tradition has become more mainstream in recent years.
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Upside down Christmas trees have been around for centuries but the festive tradition has become more mainstream in recent years.
There’s long been a historical fascination associated with the North. My country, Canada, which has been dubbed the Great White North, understands this mythology quite well. “The North focuses our anxieties,” author Margaret Atwood noted in a 1987 essay. “Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.”
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You may have only recently noticed Christmas trees hanging upside down everywhere for the holidays, but what do upside down Christmas trees really mean?