Many cultures around the world have Winter festivals including a celebration of light. As well as Christians with their Christmas, there’s also Hannukah with their brightly lit Menorahs. As Yule is a sabbat celebration of the Sun, a crucial part of the celebration is to include light, candles or fire.  Many customs created around Yule are identified with Christmas today. If you decorate your home with a Yule tree, holly or candles, you are following some of these old traditions. The Yule log, (usually made from a piece of wood saved from the previous year) is burned in the fire to symbolize the Newborn Sun/Son.

During the Winter Solstice, our Goddess once again becomes the Great Mother and gives birth to the new Sun King, and is a symbol of new beginnings, new hope, and fertility.