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Arsenic & Old Lace
Happy December! Happy Yule!
Snow, chilly weather, decorations, family gatherings, good homemade food, the good witch Befana, the rebirth of the Sun King, and an all night Solstice vigil. All of those things and more are part of our family traditions during this time of year.
However you and your family celebrate the holiday(s) of this season, we would like to wish you the very best and safest of times.
“Our Christian friends are often quite surprised at how enthusiastically we Pagans celebrate the ‘Christmas’ season. Even though we prefer to use the word “Yule”, and our celebrations may peak a few days before the twenty-fifth, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season: decorated trees, caroling, presents, Yule logs, and mistletoe. We might even go so far as putting up a ‘Nativity set’, though for us the three central characters are likely to be interpreted as Mother Nature, Father Time, and the baby Sun God. None of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true history of the holiday, of course.“
The above paragraph comes from a great Yule article by Mike Nichols. We are lucky enough to have him permission to repost the entire article on our site: Yule/Midwinter’s Eve.
Since this is such a wonderful solar-centered time of year, we’d like to offer you a special gift. For December, we’re going to put all of our “sun themed items” on sale for our members!
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