Yule

My Yule Gift Wish List
The Perfect Gifts for the Nomad Who Has Everything :)
I don't participate in a lot of gift exchanges over the holiday, but I always like to reward myself with a little (usually not so little!) gift for getting through the year. Being a full-time RVer with limited space and carrying capacity in my RV, I like to get things that are practical, beautiful, multipurpose, small, and/or lightweight. Perhaps my wish list will inspire you in your search for that perfect gift for the nomad and/or person who has everything! Image source

Pagan Friendly Decorations for Yule
Celebrating the Winter Solstice
When I decided to walk a pagan path some years ago, I still enjoyed decorating for the season. Instead of celebrating Christmas, I began to celebrate Yule or the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year. In years past, when people were more in tune with the turn of the seasons, particularly in the Nordic countries, the Winter Solstice was a time of celebration that the days would once again become longer and the return of the warm season would come again. In mod...

Ten Best Decorations for a Pagan Yule Tree
Decorating a Tree for Yule
Cultures around the world have decorated trees and brought living greenery into winter homes as part of their traditional celebrations for thousands of years. The Christmas tree originated in Germany and it too has its roots in earlier Pagan traditions. For this reason, you will often find a decorated tree in the homes of practicing Pagans around the Winter Solstice time. We certainly enjoy having our tree with all the lights and decorations. It brings a sense of the holiday spirit to our hom...

Yule Traditions
where did these Yule traditions start?
It seems most of today's active Christmas and Yule traditions, are a collection of images created in the heydays of the first mass print productions. The new industry of Victorian printing companies were very creative in firing the imagination of the public into finding reasons to buy their printed products. Their most successful campaign was to introduce jollyness into Christmas by collecting fragments of symbols of ancient traditions and packaging them together in their graphics that suppo...