Blessed Yule

Same to you Reg!

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Bright blessings on this special day. Have a wonderful YULE and may the return of the light spread warmth and joy from your hearth to your hearts.
Blessed Be

right back atcha! Be well.

See - She returns!
Our hope in Her hands.
Graves are not prisons,
but doorways back to life.


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Gud Yule, everyone!

Blessed Solstice -- happy holidays!

Blessed Solstice! I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful Yule

Merry Yule everyone, may the All-Father be with us in these bad times of the current age...

Happy Solstice, everyone! Did anyone do anything for Solstice? Me, I ended up going to a Winter Solstice open house pot luck for a local community TV station (it's actually run out of an old school at the moment).

But the really cool thing I did on the 21st was the guided candle lantern tour I took that evening. I live near where Washington crossed the Delaware and every year for the past few years, the park (on the NJ side at least) has a candle lantern tour. The park and houses that were part of the tour look so different at night and lit by candles. It was a chilly night, definitely a winter's night, and made me reflect on all that they did that night over 200 years ago in 1776.

'twas a lovely Solstice, and coming on to be a lovely season. The weather seers are promising us 6+ inches Christmas evening, and I don't have anywhere I have to be.

Gud Yule, Ya'll.

dirtsider said:

Happy Solstice, everyone! Did anyone do anything for Solstice? Me, I ended up going to a Winter Solstice open house pot luck for a local community TV station (it's actually run out of an old school at the moment).

But the really cool thing I did on the 21st was the guided candle lantern tour I took that evening. I live near where Washington crossed the Delaware and every year for the past few years, the park (on the NJ side at least) has a candle lantern tour. The park and houses that were part of the tour look so different at night and lit by candles. It was a chilly night, definitely a winter's night, and made me reflect on all that they did that night over 200 years ago in 1776.

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That's very cool!
I got up before the sun and lit a candle, started a fire with last Yule's ember, and then made a traditional feast of roast pork and roasted apples for dinner. We laughed, drank mead and wine, and then cast a circle to celebrate the return of the light. It was beautiful! I had another witch come with her family for the festivities and our children danced and sang in the circle. The candle burned through the night and in the morning I gathered the ash from the Yule fire and one burned ember to both protect and bless my home and to save for next year's Yule fire ;-) I mixed in some of the wax from the candle, too.

I also carved a few sets of runes, made some willow and mugwort wands, some other ritual items, and then blessed them in the Solstice circle and smoke from the Yule fire.

It was a beautiful day!

Good Yule and wonderful New Year, everyone

Good Yule! Hope everyone had a blessed Mothernight too (for the English pagans out there.)