What do you plan to do for Yule? What type of decorations are you going to set our or already have out, what are you going to fix for food, and what are going to be your offerings to your Goddesses and Gods? What are your family traditions.
If you are of the Abrahamic beliefs Christian, Muslim, Jewish, how do you decorate and celebrate the season?
Merry Yule, Happy Hanukkah, Kul 'am wa enta bi-khair!, Happy Quanza, and Merry Fesitvus for the rest.
2007-12-05 08:14:27 · 9 answers · asked by Karma of the Poodle 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pangal ~ Learned from example. lol
2007-12-05 08:19:37 · update #1
All your ideas are interesting. Why don't you all star it so I can get some more interesting answers and see how others celebrate our Yule.
2007-12-05 09:12:30 · update #2
lol love your holiday wishes at the end.. beautiful :)
Well, considering that the "traditional" holiday things you think of during this time of year are pagan.. it'll look very much like most of the rest of the people you probably know..
We have a decorated tree, lights, candles, stockings, gifts, a feast, etc.. we actually make homemade bird feeders at this time (pine cones smeared with peanut butter, rolled in bird seed) as a gift to nature, along with some deer corn, etc.. we have a fir tree out in the back yard that we'll decorate with the pine cones and strings of cranberries for the wildlife..
A very happy holiday season to you as well :)
2007-12-05 08:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yule (the Northern European name for the Winter Solstice) For me is a time of rest between the dark days of Winter and the promise of the new birth of Spring. I am a practitioner of a Sumerian based religion and we have a week long festival to realign the Lunar calendar with the Solar calendar. This is a time to rest, share and celebrate. Our festival does include a "gift exchange" of sorts. Everyone makes one gift by hand and pakages it in a non-descript wrapper. All the gifts are placed under the altar and a card for each gift is put into a small bag that is put on the top of the altar. We choose the small bag with the card that we are drawn to knowing that deity will guide us to what we need. We open the bag, read the card and the maker of the gift hands it to us.
There is much more that goes on in the week of the Winter Solstice but that is where it most resembles the common practices of Yule, Christmas and Xmas.
2007-12-05 17:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by Paul S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am kind of a deist - so here's my input. We celebrate Christmas. While I do not believe Jesus to be the only son of God (we all are in my mind), I do believe he was an excellent moral teacher, and therefore have no problem celebrating his birth. I decorate with mostly wintry type decorations with a few religious symbols in there. For dinner, we have turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls, etc (almost looks like thanksgiving dinner). we exchange presents mostly as tradition, but i feel that Jesus did give us the gift of his teachings, so there is some symbolism in the gift exchange for me...anything else you would like to know?
EDIT: A STAR FOR YOU THEN!
2007-12-05 16:21:15 · answer #3 · answered by Heather Honey 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm travelling on Yule.
I won't really be celebrating it as a Pagan this year, as I'm going on a vacation with my family. I'll just let the good food, good friends and good memories serve as my celebration.
:-D
2007-12-05 16:23:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
We plan to visit our families and open presents with my stepkids. I have 3 christmas decorations out that my grandmother gave me. We are buying and decorating a tree this weekend. We are going to have breakfast and lunch at our house with the kids. We will visit our families later in the day. I don't believe in laying out anything for gods or goddesses or anything like that.
Happy Holidays! I hope you have a great one.
2007-12-05 16:18:49 · answer #5 · answered by Unsub29 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Pagan Path calls each one to follow their own ways, I gather Holly & Oak, Mistletoe & Ivy, I have mead & freshly baked bread, I invoke the Doddess & the God, I use sympathetic Magic to symbolise the things I seek to stop or be rid of (from me), I use Oak and Silver Birch on my fire, I kight candles in the North, East, south, west, Above, Below and in the Centre. I cast Circles, I invoke protection, Peace & Love, I evoke Love & Harmony to all present, to all absent, to all nations, to all those I might have had disagreements with, to myself.
the wheel turns, what goes around, comes around, let us evoke Peace & Love together, let us share our humanity with everyone, yes, everyone. We can stop the fighting, we can stop the hatred, we can stop the bullying. WE can, Only WE!.
2007-12-05 16:25:08 · answer #6 · answered by first_pagan_wiccan_church 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I will have the regular menu, with COD there of course, and probaly some lobster as I would have to send for abalone, maybe skewer some scallops, prawns, bell pepper, onion, cherry tomatoes and throw them on the bar b q,
I dont decorate, waste of money to me. Need travel money and bike parts more
2007-12-05 16:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
family traditions go long and deep as my family is of a very mixed background..... scotch - English - Irish - dutch - German - and native American...... throw in the pagan and its almost a month worth of activities.... filled with the best of them all.... i only have 4 trees up this year in various place's.. the newest one is for my granddaughters and is all faeries and magical creatures....we make gifts to exchange ... build fires to sit and reconnect around... lots of food .... pretty much like every one else except it lasts longer....
2007-12-05 18:06:29 · answer #8 · answered by chralissia 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol I am not Pagan
but you sound a little excited there .... cute
Happy Festivities to all ... whatever you call yours
xx
2007-12-05 16:18:27 · answer #9 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋