Yule, the Winter Solstice is also known as the shortest day of the year, this marks the time of year when the days start growing longer again. The celebration of Yule is rooted in pre-Christian Germanic Europe where on the shortest day people would gather to light candles and fires...
December 6th is the traditional day that Saint Nicolas would visit the good children of European Cities, rewarding their good behavior with toys and sweets placed in waiting stockings. Those who had not been nice during the year received lumps of coal in their stockings rather than toys and sweets....
As the weather gets colder, and the stores grow busier, I find myself reflecting on the reason for the season. Not the Earth's rotation around the Sun as I somewhat cynically commented the other day, but the OTHER, less mundane reason. It actually has very little to do with wise...
Yule, or the Winter Solstice has been so mixed up with Christmas that sometimes it is hard to separate the two. In fact, the celebration of Christ's Birth was moved to coincide with the Winter Solstice Celebrations so that people would not feel they were missing out on their Mid-Winter...
