anyone have any cool ideas on things to do to celebrate yule today and tomorrow? like what are your yule traditions?
2006-12-20 23:17:18 · 7 answers · asked by lucifer 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok for those of you who dont know yule is a pagan holiday and it starts today so if your not pagan or your not celebrating yule please dont answer thank you.
2006-12-20 23:24:28 · update #1
I'm ringing the Salvation Army bell and singing (sigh) Christmas carols with a very close Catholic friend of mine and several other actors we know. We'll also be reading poems and playing improv games for anyone who wants to stop and watch. This was the only day we could get, my friend REALLY wanted to do this, and I committed to it before we got a date set. I had planned to make a big ol' pork roast dinner, complete with all the trimmings, and just celebrate with my boyfriend - give him his present, light candles, do some ritual work, journal - but instead I'm just going to help the needy. :-)
Blessed Yule everyone!
)O(
2006-12-21 02:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When Yule begins (7:22pm my time) I'll do my own thing, as the rest of my family is Agnostic. Then for tomorrow, after work, I'll cook a big dinner, we'll talk about the past year and decide what we're doing next year. We exchange gifts. As I'm the only Pagan in the house, we really don't have any specific traditions. My hub and son are just in it for the gifts. *wink*
Happy Yule!
2006-12-21 08:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On 21st, I cleaned the place and baked a Yule cake, then I lit a fire. The fire must be lit throughout the night, to help the new sun be reborn. During the longest night of the year, there is time for meditation and divining about the next year. I fixed and polished anew my set of runes.
On the solstice day (today), the cake is eaten and the house is decorated by evergreen branches and holly berries.
Blessed Yule to you!
2006-12-22 06:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as the husband of a pagan woman, we have a tree, a yule log (one is real and the other is a cake, both are decorated) we have friends over and exchange small gifts.
That's about it.
2006-12-21 07:24:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My tradition is to make hilarious solstice jokes. Would you like to hear mine for this year? By the way, I'm in Australia so it's a Summer Solstice joke.
What does Sir Ronnie Corbett have in common with the Summer Solstice?
They're both the shortest (k)night!
I'm not a Pagan or anything, I just like jokes.
2006-12-21 07:56:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We light lights on and around the house to welcome the Sun's rebirth and in hope of a speedy return to the warmth. We exchange small gifts and have a pot luck.
Bright Blessings on this shortest day )O(
2006-12-21 08:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Besides the normal stuff we have a birthday cake for Jesus & read the story of his birth then sing Happy Birthday.
2006-12-21 07:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by syllylou77 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋