Yule/The Winter Solstice
Yule/Winter Solstice
Date: December 21st or 22nd
Colours: white, red, green, blue, silver, gold
Crystals: clear quartz, fire quartz, snowflake obsidian, snow quartz, rose quartz, citrine, sunstone, pyrite
Plants: holly, ivy, pine, cedar, fir, mistletoe, frankincense, myrrh, yew, birch
Animals: deer, stag, robin, wren, owl, goat, fox, wolf
Themes: rebirth, the sun, life, hope, renewal
A Little About This Sabbat
This Sabbat is celebrated in honour of the rebirth of the sun. It is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
It brings hope and renewal as the sun begins to return. The promise of new beginnings on the horizon.
It's a time for quiet introspection and relaxation. During the long winter nights around the solstice we are invited to turn inward and reflect on the year as it draws to an end. Take time to pause and nurture yourself.
In pagan myth and folklore, the Oak King wins in battle agaisnt the Holly King. The Oak King rules from the Winter Solstice to the Summer Solstice. The Summer Solstice is when the Holly King defeats the Oak King and rules from the Summer Solstice to the Winter Solstice.
Tips & Activities
- Make a Yule Altar
- Decorate your home for the season.
- Decorate a Christmas tree with charms and talismans for blessings of health, wealth, and prosperity.
- Craft a wreath for protection and hang it on your front door.
- Make a Yule log.
- Create a garland of orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and bay leaves.
- Practice Yule Kitchen Magick.
- Cook up a magickal Yule feast.
- Bake magickal yuletide cookies and imbue them with blessings of comfort and joy.
- Make a gingerbread house but make it into a protection spell for your own home.
- Eat an apple on the night of Yule to bring good health for the year ahead.
- The morning after the Winter Solstice use a birch besom to brush away the old year and bring in new opportunities, ideas, and goals for the year ahead.
- Practice self-care in as many ways as possible this time of year.
- Have a winter solstice renewal bath. Add rosemary, pine, orange slices, and sea salt. Light a white candle and place clear quartz, citrine, and rose quartz around the tub
- Give back by donating to a worthy cause.
- Leave birdseed outside to give back to the animals.
Yule Tea Blend
- Cinnamon
- Pine needles
- Peppermint
- Ginger
- Cloves
- Star anise
Yule Apple Cider
- Apple juice
- Apple slices
- Cinnamon
- Cloves
- Ginger
- Orange zest
- Maple syrup
- Cinnamon
- Cloves
- Star anise
- Frankincense
- Pine resin
Yule Simmer Pot
- Cinnamon
- Cloves
- Ginger
- Star anise
- Pine needles
- Orange slices
- Apple slices
- Cranberries
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