If you look out the window right now, the world probably looks a little sleepy. The trees are bare skeletons against a steel-grey sky, the ground is hard (or slushy, depending on your latitude), and the sun seems to have packed its bags and left the office by 4:00 PM.
In the secular world, this season is often defined by frantic shopping, blinding neon lights, and a race to the finish line of the calendar year. But on the modern Pagan calendar, we reach a checkpoint that asks us to do something radical: stop.
This is Yule. Also known as the Winter Solstice, it marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year. While it might sound bleak to celebrate “peak darkness,” Yule is actually one of the most hopeful, heartwarming, and essential festivals on the Wheel of the Year.
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