21/12/2025
✨The Longest Night is here. Welcome Yule, the pagan midwinter festival where we celebrate the return of the sun and the enduring life force of the Earth. ✨
Tonight, the Green Man—the ancient spirit of nature, wildness, and rebirth—sleeps deep within the roots of the sleeping world. We honour him and the promise that from this darkness, light and life will bloom again.
🌿 Simple Yule Rituals for Your Hearth 🌿
•Light a Yule Log: Burn a log (oak is traditional) in your fireplace, or decorate a log with candles, holly, and pinecones as a centerpiece. As it burns or glows, release the old year and welcome the new sun.
•Feast with the Seasons: Share a meal with winter foods—nuts, apples, roasted root vegetables, mulled wine or cider. Set a place at your table for ancestors or the old gods.
•Evergreen Magic: Bring in holly, ivy, mistletoe, and pine. These greens remind us that life endures through the cold. Craft a wreath to symbolize the eternal wheel of the year.
•Sunrise Greeting: If you can, greet the sunrise on the morning after Solstice. Light a candle, give thanks for the returning light, and set an intention for the coming cycle.
🕯 Honouring the Old Gods & Roots 🕯
•Leave an Offering: Pour out a libation of cider, wine, or honey onto the earth, or leave oats and seeds for the wildlife, in honour of deities like Odin, the Holly King, Cernunnos, or Frau Holle.
•Silent Night Reflection: In the deep quiet of the longest night, simply sit in darkness, then light a single candle. Meditate on what hibernates within you, waiting to be reborn.
•Share Stories: Read old myths, like the battle of the Oak King and Holly King, or the Wild Hunt. Keep the old tales alive.
The old ways remind us: we are part of the cycle. We turn with the Earth. From darkness comes light.
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