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What is Yule / Winter Solstice?
Yule is also known as Midwinter or the Winter Solstice. For many, this time of year finds us baking cookies, planning festive occasions for friends and family, searching for that “perfect” tree to place in our homes, gathering firewood for those cold nights so soon upon us. The scent of cinnamon, apples, and evergreen unite to evoke memories long forgotten. We are celebrating the return of the Sun. It is the time of the winter solstice, when the nights are at their longest.
After the moment of the solstice, the days begin to grow in strength again, and the tide in the struggle between light and dark begins to turn. Yule, or jül is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The word itself comes from the Old English geöl. Yule symbols and themes have long been a part of our pagan past. The Norse word for Yule means “Wheel.”
In ancient Chaldee, the word yule meant “infant” or “little child.” The concept of the Old Father Time and the Baby New Year have these same pagan overtones as well. Each are views of the old being replaced by the new.
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