Yule Reflections- a winter period

Yule Father....by Dan MIller

I would love to direct your attention to a story I read in Witchvox that prompted this line of reflection. Click here to go to it : http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ussc&c=holidays&id=14874

The story tells of a winter, and of singing for hope that the happy days will soon return. At least that is what I got out of it.

 For the last six month I have been experiencing a "winter" in my life. Yeah yeah yeah...I live in the tropics....we see no winter, and never see a cooler temperature than 25 degrees Celcius. The winter I refer to is a metaphorical one. Since doing the Uranus Magick, and being jettisioned so to speak from my career, and from my home. I have been living a winter where things were scarce...I had a lot of reorganizing my mind as to what is important to me and..... with all the fears and worry....I pulled through. The solstice is upon us....and already I see signs of my Earth waking up!

Yule Ornament on my tree. A rare find on my island...wish I could find more.

This Yule, I shall celebrate with a clearing ritual first. All things that are past...are past. I shall then create a ritual to sing out my hopes to the future. To focus my mind on the good things to come, to speak of gratitude for these trials I have been through, this winter of my life. I know that such periods test the character of the individual.
Again, I did the Magick that prompted this life change. I create Uranus Magick, these are the things I requested:

1) To be removed from the high level management job that took up all my time and energy.
2) To find a part time flexible job that would free up my time
3)To be able to work on and build my career in art so that that artistic life would be the source of my income.

All of this was the aim of being a better me... less stressed...less grumpy...more fulfilled, and more family time.........
My Magick is working....for this I am grateful....now on to my ritual.

Yule Decorations

In putting up our tree this year I looked at our decorations and saw the lack of yule icons for decorations. The only two I had was this Sun symbol...and the moon pictured below:

Made me yearn for some other decorations for the tree, which were more in keeping with the solstcie and pagan themes for YULE.
So I went one to ETSY...my favourite place for things hand made; and found this :

Which can be found here :

http://www.etsy.com/listing/64020521/charmed-triquetra-celtic-knot-gemstone?ref=sr_gallery_8&ga_search_query=yule+decorations&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=&includes[0]=tags&include

And then there was this:

Which can be found here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62788815/yule-ornaments-trio?ref=sr_gallery_31&ga_search_query=yule+decorations&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=3&order=&includes[0]=tags&includes[1]=title&filter[0]=handmade

I always like handmade ones the best!!!!! For the more elegant artsy type.......


   

Happy Solstice and Christmas Witches

Solstice was yesterday, greetings to all. So ends the decreasing light, and now the days begin to grow longer.

Also for your Yuletide Stories, take a google at La Befana, an italian Christmas Character.

Yule Greetings all.

Yule gift

Isn't it beautiful? I swear you couldn't get anything like this on the island. A dear friend bought this for me last night as an early Yule gift. Yule will be observed very quietly by myself. As I am the only one, I don't want to take away the magic of Christmas yet from my children.

But back to the Dragon Box, it is beautifully detailed with stylized "Tree of life" and Dragon motifs on the sides. I will bless it at the full moon. The Dragon Box has come full of promise for the year to come.

I am keeping it to hold only Dragon's Blood Incense when I get some.