What is the spiritual significance of Yule?

Answer 1

It is the Sun of God arrising upon another year and and draws it's significance from the ritual of ancient fertility cults, don't ya know. It has to do with the tilting of the planets in their revolutions around the spheres that sustain them..... The ol resurrection theory goes back a long way.....

Answer 2

Yuletide (Yule, Midwinter. Winter Solstice) is the shortest day in the year. It occurs on or around the 21st of December. The common belief among Wiccans is that the God is born on this day. Since the God is represented by the sun (no, Pagans do not worship the sun) and the days start to get longer after the solstice, it is common sense that the birth of the God be on this day. It planted the seed for other mainstream religions to have their God born on, or around, this day as well, namely Christianity.

The time between Samhain (Halloween) and Yuletide is said to be the time without the God. The Goddess is said to be saddened and angry, hence the bleak cold of autumn and winter. Once the God is reborn on the solstice, things start to bloom and the sun is seen longer.

Yay for spiritual significance!

Answer 3

Yule is the pagan Holiday that celebrates the Winter solstice, and it is regardes as teh re-birth of the sun.

the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and in ancient times the winter was the hardest time of the year for people. they needed some form of hope to pull them through the last few months. this celebration gave then something to look foreward to in the dark of the year. the spiritual signifigance is twofold.

1, it is a mental thing for the people. it is a celebration of life in the hardest time of the year. people need the celebration and the signifigance of the yule ritual to give them hope of warmer days.

2, the yule rituals practiced by the ancient druids were designed to thank the gods for their continued blessings, and to ask them to renew the sun and the warmth of the summer. Cerunuuos would be called to open the gate to the underworld (not a bad place in our traditions). and the Creallic (winter hag) would be paid her respects but asked to loosen her grip on the land so that life could continue to grow. the sun could have been seen as a god in itself and the riseing of the sun the next day would be met with great celebration. many sun gods would be called to aid in the warming of the planet. but the celts understood that even the gods need time to work. 2 to 3 moon cycles may pass before winter would loose it's icy grip on the land, and at that time another celebration of life (Beltane) would be held.

hope this helps you.

Answer 4

I copied and pasted from Wikipedia. I didn't know the answer. There is more info. Too much to paste but very interesting. Check it out.

Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Scandinavian Norse mythology and Germanic pagans. In Germanic Neopaganism, this celebration is largely reconstructed to various extents by various groups. In Wicca, a form of the holiday is observed as one of the eight solar holidays, or sabbats, where Yule is celebrated on the winter solstice: in the northern hemisphere, circa December 21, and in the southern hemisphere, circa June 21.

Answer 5

Yule is the ancient celebration of the winter solstice. It was also a celebration of the Norse God Odin and of the dead. It was a time of great feasting. It was usual to cut a large log, the Yule log, which was decorated and sometimes carved and kept burning throughout the festivities.

Answer 6

Yule is pagan solstice holiday, generally celebrated between the 21-23 of December. When Romans invaded Pagan countries, they indoctrinated native peoples to celebrate the birth of their christian god about the same time, to negate the significance of the solstice celebration.

Answer 7

I believe the gods were thought to be at there weakest during Yule (winter solstice - shortest day of the year) and after Yule, the gods grew in power every day. That's one take.

Answer 8

Th Yule is part of the tradition of Pagan celebrations of the Winter solstice.

It has no spiritual significance except in Pagan circles.

Answer 9

It is a pagan winter solstice holiday, which (I believe) is celebrating the beginning of the lengthening of the days again, and the new life which will begin to grow as spring begins. Of course, it could just as well be a prayer that the days don't continue to shrink and that life doesn't just stop on earth, but i think it is the first one...

Answer 10

Spiritually we can all get drunk, grope our sisters' boyfriend and be absolved of any guilt because it is Jesus 2008th birthday.

Spiritually we can then go out and get done for drink-driving, too, hoping that the Christmas spirit will forgive us for knocking over the 7 year-old kid that ran out in front of the car.....