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The winter solstice marks the shortest, darkest day and the rebirth of the sun. The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year. This year, which has felt long and dark to many people, may be a good time to honor the solstice. The 2020 winter solstice is Monday, December 21.


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Yule (also called Jul, jól or joulu) is a winter festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples that was incorporated into Christmas during the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples.In present times adherents of some new religious movements (such as Modern Germanic paganism) celebrate Yule independently of the Christian festival.Scholars have connected the original celebrations of.


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Instead of looking upon the solstice with dread, here are six poems to remind you of the enchantment of winter, the magic of the holidays and provide you with warmth and solidarity when the icy winds blow. A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone;


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The winter solstice is the growing sun's season, so gold is used to correspond with the sun's power and energy. Evergreen plants give us the greens we use to symbolize Christmas and Yule. The red berries that help wild animals survive the winter give us the reds. Many churches use white as the color of Christmas.


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Saturnalia was an ancient pagan holiday that honored the Roman God Saturn. It took place sometime between December 17th and 24th. It was a week of revelry, decadence and the inversion of social.


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The collective celebrations of Yule and the winter solstice, by pagan cultures has been the source for the modern Christmas holiday. How Different Ancient Cultures Practiced Yule. The Norse consider Yule as the most important celebration of the year. Their celebration lasted 3 days, starting on the night of the Solstice (December 20th or 21st).


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Yule, also known as the Winter Solstice, is a significant time for Pagans. It marks the longest night of the year and the shortest day, after which the days gradually begin to lengthen. This time was celebrated by Pagans in many ways, including with Yule poems. The Longest Night and Shortest Day


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"The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time - a time to contemplate your immortality." ― Frederick Lenz "This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath." ― Margaret Atwood.


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The Snow Is Deep on the Ground. Kenneth Patchen. The snow is deep on the ground. Always the light falls. Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.


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The winter solstice is the time of year when the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky, also known as Yule. This usually happens on December 21st, but varies depending on how close to Earth a given solar year's perihelion (the nearest point in orbit) falls.


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Interfaith Inspiration Waiting for the Sun: A Pagan Celebration of Yule By Julia Pillard December 19, 2023 A Yule altar. Photo courtesy of Julia Pillard As the sun sets on the winter solstice, leaving a cold, clear evening behind it, I stand outside on the porch in Fort Collins, Colorado.


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Yule is the time of the Winter Solstice, and for many Pagans, it's a time to say goodbye to the old, and welcome the new. As the sun returns to the earth, life begins once more. This ritual can be performed by a solitary practitioner, either male or female. It's also easily adaptable to a small group of people.


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The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. It literally means that the sun stands still: from the Latin (sun) and (standing still). The midwinter sun rises at its furthest point in the southeast and sets in its nearest point in the southwest, thus making the shortest and lowest circuit in the sky. For three days (the day before, the.


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The winter solstice, the darkest and longest night of the year, is a time of reflection. Why not take a moment to offer up a pagan prayer for Yule?


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In Pagan times, the winter solstice was known as Yule, a celebration of Goddess (moon) energy, when the moon would give birth to the sun. In this celebratory poem, British author Susan Cooper captures the magic of this day and this season. The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper And so the Shortest Day came and the year died


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With this Winter Solstice poem, I've purposely left out the last stanza so as to keep it as secular or pagan as possible. The last stanza does mention "Christ" yet the rest of the poem seems to me to be speaking of the Wild Hunt, as well as the old year dying and a new beginning. From "In Memoriam" RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky,