Yule — Winter Solstice and Returning Light

Finding a new spark in the darkest night

The funeral fires of Samhain died down, those coals still warm beneath the ash of the year, and already my soul yearns for the deep rest and darkess of the Yuletide. There is much that needed to die away with the old year, and much to renew through the long nights to come.

Each year, when the Sun stands still at the Winter Solstice, my witch’s heart tur…