In 2006 at precisely 7:22 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 21 (00:22 UTC on December 22) winter begins in the Northern Hemisphere and summer begins in the Southern Hemisphere.
The longest night of the year.
What will you do? How will it affect you?
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Hiya Hecate,
Long-time reader here...
For Yule I will be in student clinic, treating the underserved with acupuncture in a reduced-cost clinic. I am a 4th-year student of Oriental Medicine of pagan persuasion, and it feels SO RIGHT to be helping folks for Yule.
Thank you for your recent post: The Climate Is Changing And I Have To Change Along With It - I quoted you and linked to that.
Dear sravana,
Bless you for your good work! That's so wonderful. Glad you like that post.
I will be home from a long day teaching minority students from Camden, New Jersey. I will perform a ritual in my backyard.
Merry Yuletide!
It's hard to celebrate Yule as a solitary - there should be singing and raucous laughter and many people lighting candles. But this year, it's just not possible to join with others, so I'll be working on my own.
I've cleaned all my gear, gotten enough wood to keep a small fire burning. It will be at least a month before we can move back into the house, but I've given the contractors the day off, and friday as well, so that I can keep a quiet vigil on my own, keeping a fire and candles, offering mead and bread to the very grouchy nixies and pixies of the hearth.
I'm putting together an iPod list of favorite music - like Mothertongue's This Winter Night - and am going to scrub down the hearth with the last of my Irish spring water - and I'll sing and dance in an empty room, hoping to catch a glimpse of a sliver of a new moon in the dark winter sky.
The Light returns, peace and hope to all beings.
red
look what I found!
a webcam site for Maeshowe, a neolithic cairn in the Orkneys!
And yes, like Newgrange, the Light shines into the cairn at Yule.
http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/index.html
red
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