Blessed Yule!

This week here on The Spiral Dance, we celebrate Yule, the Winter Solstice; this Shortest Day and Longest Night. At Yuletide the Wheel of the Year seems to halt, while Darkness reigns before the return of the sun. In seasonal terms, it's the darkest hour before the dawn. Yule is a time to set aside animosity between yourself and people with whom you did not get along. The Norsemen had a tradition that enemies who met under a bough of mistletoe were obligated to lay down their arms. As the sayng goes; "From Yule to New Year's Day, neither wheel nor windless must go round". The idea being that, as the sun seems to stand still at Yule, so we cease the movement of our own wheels - the churning of our lives. Once the Wheel turns anew on New Years Day, so we begin again. Yule is Holda's Feast Day. Honor her by stilling your Life on the one day when the sun stands still. I hope you enjoy the show!