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Yule<\/strong><\/p>\n A Wiccan Sabbat observed at the Winter Solstice; Yule is the second Sabbat of the Wheel of the Year (Samhain being the first).\u00a0 It’s a fire festival observing the God’s rebirth and the return of the light. (Newsflash: after the Solstice, days start getting longer again, Pilgrim.\u00a0 Trust me.)<\/p>\n For Your Deliberation<\/strong><\/p>\n Sparkle doesn’t believe in idle hands or paws, so Delinquent the dog and I were out at five a.m. this morning for our first Yuletide walk of the day.\u00a0 I stopped within the warren of pathways in our communal back yard, stunned by the beauty of Sabbat.\u00a0 Snow was falling silently, turning the ground a speckled white.\u00a0 All the other homes were still dark, and it was like we were the only ones in the world.\u00a0 After a quiet prayer of Thanksgiving, we turned around and went back home.<\/p>\n So what does a witch’s house look like in December, anyway?\u00a0 Well, I’m not sure just how typical our family is (I’m a wytch, Sparkle’s pagan friendly and Delinquent is undecided), but the only difference between our Yule tree and a Christmas one is a big red bow on the top instead of a star, which I’ve seen plenty of non pagan households do too.\u00a0 We have nearly half a dozen wreaths around our living room, and one on the outside of our front door.\u00a0 (I mist the real ones twice a day.\u00a0 Prudence pays.)\u00a0 Lots of red, from the grinning Santa holding guard at the big window, the zillion poinsettias–watering is a nightmare–to the plaid Celtic collar around Delinquent’s neck and the aforementioned bow on the treetop.\u00a0 Several stockings are tacked up on the mantle with care–more than three, as several commemorate pets and familiars\u00a0 who have passed on to the Summerland ahead of us.\u00a0 I think the board games in the TV cabinet are normal.\u00a0 Sparkle has her own doubts about how normal yours truly is, but that’s another diatribe….<\/p>\n MUSIC Review<\/strong><\/p>\n Yuletide Comes–Winter Solstice<\/em> Chant<\/em>.\u00a0 By Flora Ware with Heidi McCurdy.<\/p>\n I’ve reviewed more than a couple of Flora Ware’s beautiful songs this year, and so far I like this one best.\u00a0 That says a lot!<\/p>\n 5 broomsticks.<\/p>\n Have a Cool Yule!<\/strong><\/p>\n Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n Weyland is a columnist and storyteller for\u00a0Pagan Pages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>He and his family can be reached at weylandsmith@yahoo.com<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yule A Wiccan Sabbat observed at the Winter Solstice; Yule is the second Sabbat of the Wheel of the Year (Samhain being the first).\u00a0 It’s a fire festival observing the God’s rebirth and the return of the light. (Newsflash: after the Solstice, days start getting longer again, Pilgrim.\u00a0 Trust me.) For Your Deliberation Sparkle doesn’t believe in idle hands or paws, so Delinquent the dog and I were out at five a.m. this morning for our first Yuletide walk of the day.\u00a0 I stopped within the warren of pathways in our communal back yard, stunned by the beauty of Sabbat.\u00a0 Snow was falling silently, turning the ground a speckled white.\u00a0 All the other homes were still dark, and it was like we were the only ones in the world.\u00a0 After a quiet prayer of Thanksgiving, we turned around and went back home. So what does a witch’s house look like in December, anyway?\u00a0 Well, I’m not sure just how typical our family is (I’m a wytch, Sparkle’s pagan friendly and Delinquent is undecided), but the only difference between our Yule tree and a Christmas one is a big red bow on the top instead of a star, which I’ve seen plenty of non pagan households do too.\u00a0 We have nearly half a dozen wreaths around our living room, and one on the outside of our front door.\u00a0 (I mist the real ones twice a day.\u00a0 Prudence pays.)\u00a0 Lots of red, from the grinning Santa holding guard at the big window, the zillion poinsettias–watering is a nightmare–to the plaid Celtic collar around Delinquent’s neck and the aforementioned bow on the treetop.\u00a0 Several stockings are tacked up on the mantle with care–more than three, as several commemorate pets and familiars\u00a0 who have passed on to the Summerland ahead of us.\u00a0 I think the board games in the TV cabinet are normal.\u00a0 Sparkle has her own doubts about how normal yours truly is, but that’s another diatribe…. MUSIC Review Yuletide Comes–Winter Solstice Chant.\u00a0 By Flora Ware with Heidi McCurdy. I’ve reviewed more than a couple of Flora Ware’s beautiful songs this year, and so far I like this one best.\u00a0 That says a lot! 5 broomsticks. Have a Cool Yule! Bio Weyland is a columnist and storyteller for\u00a0Pagan Pages.\u00a0\u00a0He and his family can be reached at weylandsmith@yahoo.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31009,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008\/revisions\/31009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}