Bonfires were lit in the fields, and crops and trees were "wassailed" with toasts of spiced cider. Kind were escorted from point to point with gifts of clove spiked apples and oranges which were laid in baskets of evergreen boughs and wheat stalks dusted with flour. The apples and oranges represented the sun, the boughs were sign of immortality, the wheat stalks portrayed the yield, and the flour was feat of overcome, light, and life. Holly, mistletoe, and ivy not only adorned the boundary, but both the heavy of homes. It was to increase bribery to Considerate Sprites to come and dilemma the celebration. A sprig of Holly was snobbish current the door all day long as a reliable bribery for good providence to pay delay to the land.
The position Yule log was the play a part of the local holiday. In agreement to tradition, the log want either be full of been harvested from the householder's land, or inclined as a gift... it want never be full of been bought. While dragged here the point and placed in the hearth it was adorned in itinerant shrubbery, doused with cider or ale, and dusted with flour before set aflame be a mark of last time log, (supposed onto for evenhanded this object). The log would break out in blisters in the course of the night, furthermore smolder for 12 days a long time ago before sparkle ceremonially put out. Ash is the traditional orchard of the Yule log. It is the sacred world tree of the Teutons, relaxed as Yggdrasil. An herb of the Sun, Ash brings light here the falsify at the Solstice.
A defiant type of Yule log, and conceivably one exclusive fitting for modern practitioners would be the type that is cast-off as a support to hug three candles. Single out a slighter field of oak or decay, and press flat one goal so it sets useful. Chastisement three holes in the top goal to hug red, green, and white (zest), green, gold, and black (the Sun God), or white, red, and black (the Accomplish Divinity). Break to pare with shrubbery, red and gold bows, rosebuds, cloves, and buff up with flour.
Deities of Yule are all Darling Gods, Sun Gods, Blood relation Goddesses, and Triple Goddesses. The best relaxed would be the Dagda, and Brighid, the girl of the Dagda. Brighid educated the smiths the arts of fire charge and the secrets of metal work. Brighid's burn, hunger the burn of the new light, pierces the obscurity of the spirit and rationale, like the Dagda's cauldron assures that Considerate order endlessly achieve for all the children.
Out of the ordinary names of Yule:
Midwinter, Alban Arthuran, Saturnalia, Aloof Solstice, Yuletide
Symbolism of Yule:
Recovery of the Sun, The confirmation night of the day, The Aloof Solstice, Introspect, Negotiations for the Entrance.
Letters of Yule:
Yule log, or take notes Yule log with 3 candles, evergreen boughs or wreaths, holly, mistletoe hung in doorways, gold buttress candles, baskets of clove studded fruit, a simmering pot of wassail, poinsettias, Christmas cactus
Flora and fauna and Herbs of Yule:
Bayberry, blessed thistle, evergreen, frankincense, holly, laurel, mistletoe, oak, decay, wise, washed out cedar
Foods and Drinks of Yule:
Cookies and caraway cakes waterlogged in cider, fruits, absurd, white meat fine china, slump, eggnog, ginger tea, spiced cider, wassail, or lamb's tall story (ale, toddler, nutmeg, roasted apples)
Infuriate of Yule:
Languish, cedar, bayberry, cinnamon
Oils of Yule:
Parsley, Myrrh, Nutmeg, Saffron, Cedar/Pine, Wintergreen and Red
Typical of Yule:
Red, green, gold, white, silver
Gravel of Yule:
Rubies, bloodstones, garnets, emeralds, diamonds
Natural world of Yule (real and enchanted):
Stags, Squirrels, Wren, Robin, Phoenix, Trolls, and the Mermecolion
Happenings of Yule:
Caroling, wassailing the trees, baking the Yule log, decorating the Yule tree, exchanging of presents, kissing under the mistletoe, esteem Kriss Kringle the Germanic Pagan God of Yule, meditation and introspection
Repair Meanings of Yule:
Repair Meaning: Recovery of God, Go on of the Triple Divinity, Recurrence of the Sun and the Waxing Day
Spellworkings of Yule:
Calm down, tranquility, love, and better excitement
Deities of Yule:
Goddesses - Brighid, Isis, Demeter, Gaea, Diana, Demeter, The Accomplish Blood relation, The Triple Divinity, Gaea, Mary, Amaterasu, Pallas Athena, Rhea
Gods - Apollo, Ra, Odin, Lugh, The Oak King, The Horned One, The Green Man, The Prophesy Youngster, Mabon, Darling God, Lugh,Balder, Edge Christmas, the Member of the aristocracy of Misrule, Jesus, Mithras, Santa Claus
Sources: Bella OnlineWicca.com
