| Yule - Sabbaths
Name
Yule
Other names
Winter solistice, Christmas
Point of time
21th of December
About sabbath
Although date of the winter solstice changes from year to year, many wiccans celebrate it in 21th of december. During solstice day is shortest and night is longest. When day starts to become longer and dark starts to become shorter, a new wiccan sun year begins, a birth of the divine child.
Sabbath of the Yule is reborning celebration of the sun. Sun's strength has weared out since the summer solstice, but now it starts to grow.
In the longest night of the year, in the year of the solstice, was celebrated as our forefathers waited for the oak-king, king sun, who warmed the frozen land and helped it to carry over.
During Yule wiccans decorate their homes with evergreen plants, which remind beginning of the new growing era.
Berried holly is a popular decoration, as it's red berries symbol the resting mother and life's reutrning to ground. Plant's dark green leaves represent holly-king, who rules until the spring comes. During Yule bonfires are set and apple wine is spread to the fields. Mistletoe and ivy was used as a decoration inside and outside. It's purpose was to invite nature spirits back to celebration.
Mistletoe has very strong roots in paganship. It has considered as a magical plant, since it grows whichout roots. The highlight of the sabbath was a ceremonial Yule-log. Along with tradition, log must not ever been bough, as it was to got from your own woods or got as a gift.
During yule, oak-king, ruler of summer, is reborned. Oak-king rules since middle winter to the middle summer, in whiches time light increases. During yule the hunt is in it's highest. In the night of the solstice it is not safe to stay out unless one wants to be catches by the great hunter.
Rites for the sabbathYule
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