#yule 2016

[therapardalis]

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[modernwitchesdaily]

❄ Blessed Yule 2016!  ❄

Here is a little card for the winter solstice! I hope you’ll all have great holidays~ The rune is for Protection.

 Lots of witchy vibes to all of you ♥

[moxwitch]

I hope everyone had a lovely Yule!! I made some of the mulled “wine” from this recipe, and crafted a wreath with my friend @peach-herald (her’s is the one on the right). I thought they turned out very nice :) Now I’m heading off to bed; goodnight!

x

Moxwitch

[rainbowwhimsyart]

From my heart to yours, wishing you a blessed Yule. May the solstice bring you happiness and joy on this longest night, and for the year to come! With love, Stephanie (aka Rainbow Whimsy)

[silvered-wings]

Making incense amd getting mead drunk. Happy yule y'all!

[juniper-witch]

Celebrating Yule with mulled cider with rum and chicken nuggets, because that’s the kind of adult I am. I know “traditionally” Samhain is the witch’s new year, but for me, the new year starts with Yule. How could I not see the winter solstice as a mark of a new year!?!?! The longest night means the sun is coming back! That is so... refreshing, new, rejuvenating! As someone who doesn’t drive, this time of year I’m leaving for work in the dark, and then returning home... in the dark. It’s exhausting. It makes me feel like I’m wasting my life at work! Plus biking/walking over ice in the dark is terrifying. For a few more weeks I’ll still be biking to work in the dark, but soon my evening commute will be a little bit brighter!

Then as a gardener, being cooped up in the winter and having to baby all of my plants indoors is super stressful. Every extra minute of sunlight to my tiny green babies helps and that makes me so happy! Plus Yule means January is close... and January means one more month until I start my earliest seedlings. Heck yes.

Anyway. I think I’m going to spend the rest of the evening working on my list of witchy resolutions. Have a great solstice everyone!

[paganwitchofchaos]

Yule

For me Yule is a very complicated holiday. It’s not a holiday of hearth and home in the traditional way of blood relatives and it’s not a holiday of complete happiness.

For me it’s a holiday of chosen family, of broken homes and a band of misfits, of God’s of the fire and Gods of the ice. It’s a reminder of the rest of the year when we bled and cried just to get here, to where we are now. It’s a reminder that darkness and light go hand in hand.

It’s a time to celebrate what we’ve accomplished and dream for a better future. It’s a time to think about what we’ve lost, what we’ve gained, and what we’re still fighting for. Like everything else in my life it’s a chaotic balance of life and death, happiness and sadness, struggle and surrender.

I start celebrating in the afternoon before the sun goes down until dawn breaks. I light candles for all my Gods because they are family. I celebrate the sun, the moon, the earth, the frozen water on the ground, and the sweet smelling air around me warmed by softly burning fires lighting my room. I clean out things and memories I no longer need to make room for the new things and memories that may come in the new year.

As the wheel continues to turn remember that we cannot control what comes into our lives, but that we DO control how we react to these changes and what we do as people. We are not assigned family or actions, only circumstance. Merry Yule, I hope with the return of the light that good things may also come your way.

[pixels-for-pugs]

Merry Yule to all who celebrate it. Blessed be 🌒🌕🌘