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 Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:40 pm
So the Wheel of the Year turns to Yule or the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. The feasting, giving of gifts, decorating trees and the bringing of evergreens into the house are all customs rooted in a pre-Christian tradition. In its secular celebrations, this holiday is the favorite of many pagans I have met, competing with Beltaine and Samhain in the sheer availability of helpful material.
Feel free to post about any and all customs, whether spiritual or secular.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:57 pm
The time of the 2009 Winter Solstice is 12:47 PM EST on Monday, December 21st.
I will probably contrive to be at lunch at the moment for a small devotional, mainly about being at a pivotal moment in time.
On the longest night I do a ritual involving darkness. We turn off all lights and I usually tell a short tale about how the end of the world may not be fire and brimstone but a slow burial under snow in the darkness.
Then one candle is lit, one small flame against the darkness of a night that might last forever.
I can see where a vigil all through the night, standing guard, keeping watch for the returning dawn, would be appropriate.
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