Keeping Traditions Simple
We kept things simple this year and did our ritual by candlelight. later we did quiet some meditations. This year there was only two of us doing the ritual. We hope next year our other friends will b…
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First Celebration
I celebrated Yule (during the day) by going to dinner with 2 fellow Wiccan friends (a newly Wiccan friend and our mentor) and my fiancé. We proceeded to go shopping and my newly Wiccan friend an…
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Festive and Fun
I used to belong to a Circle and we gathered for every Sabbat & Esbat, however we disbanded right after Imbolc '12. I've been doing solitary rituals since and have had a couple of younger seekers app…
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First Yule Altar
Well, it's not Yule yet, but I am solitary, so no group rite, I plan on just doing a nice, uncomplicated ritual on my own. This is my first year as a Pagan, so I'm still learning and all is new. I'd …
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Celebrating with Friends and Family
I celebrate Yule by getting together with friends and family. If my Coven has enough people, we will do a rite, if not, then we turn it into a training Rite and then we will just visit and catch up w…
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Honoring Horus at Yule
I celebrated alone and had a simple ritual. Nothing formal (didn't cast a circle), just a sacred space to give homage to the Gods to bless me in this winter. Being of Egyptian beliefs, I payed homage…
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A Pre-Yule Esbat Rite
This was for the Dec 10th Esbat for my Circle. We did a pre-Yule Esbat with ties the three stages of womanhood, The Roman Goddess Libertia & a focus on divination as well as a tool rechargingWe had 3…
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Celebrating Yule as a Group
Brooms, candles, food, wine, athames, sword, incense, Book of Shadows of the newly formed coven Wiccan-Wesak.All brooms were hand made by participants. Every athames and power tools were previously c…
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Michelle's Yule Log
I celebrated the birth of the God in a solitary ritual and contemplated on the holiday by myself in solitude.Afterwards, I celebrated Yule with my family (Christmas for them). I headed to my dad's fa…
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Harmonee's Yule Altar 2010
My husband, my god-daughter, and I really enjoyed the night. We said prayers in the morning (The Sun returns! The light returns!), afternoon (The God is born this day), evening (Meditated on the sacr…
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Celebrating the Chill of Winter
This was the first Yule I spent alone with my baby daughter. Before my husband went on deployment, together we created a very nice Yule log which is not shown on the photo. I baked some cookies and m…
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Honoring the God and Goddess
I had a small get-together at my house where we had dinner together, exchanged gifts, and burned a Yule log outside on the grill. I made 2 Yule logs by splitting a log in half and using one piece to …
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A Long Distance Ritual
My sister and I did a joint ritual over the phone. Taken from a herb book. It was called a Midwife Ritual. We used real Holly. The ritual we performed was the Midwifery Ritual to mark the birth of th…
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Giving to Those in Need
I began this ceremony with my High Priestess, who performed my 3rd Degree initiation, which was incredibly moving and powerful. Afterwards, the rest of the group joined us and we celebrated the sun's…
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Celebrating the Sun's Return
This altar was used for my coven's 2008 Yule ritual. After telling a story about the holly, the pine and the fir (and why they're the only ones that remain green at the winter solstice), we lit a whi…
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