Winter Solstice Yule Quotes

May the light illuminate your hearts and shine in your life every day of the year. May everlasting peace be yours and upon our Earth.

At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.

Yule (20–25 December). Yule is like Christmas but slightly earlier and a good excuse to have even more food. This Festival of Rebirth is also the winter solstice celebration, which marks the shortest day of the year and the hope of more light to come. At this time of the year when our light is at a premium, Yule is a good chance to remind ourselves of what makes us happy – whether that’s family, friends, fairy lights or copious amounts of sprouts; I’ll let you decide.

As with the period around the winter solstice (Geola, ‘Yule’), the Old English name Liða corresponds to two months in our calendar: June is called se ærra liða, ‘the earlier Liða’, and July se æftera liða, ‘the later Liða’.

Yule, lit the fires, the candles to represent the return of light after the darkest night of the winter solstice. She made and hung the wreath, the symbol of the Wheel of the Year.

Samhain – End of Summer Imbolc – Sundown February 1st through the day February 2nd Beltane – Either April 30th or May 1st Lughnasadh – July 31st to August 1st Yule – Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in Southern Hemisphere Ostara – March 21st Litha – June 21st Mabon – September 21st

The Goddess gives birth to a son, the God, at Yule (circa December 21). This is in no way an adaptation of Christianity. The winter solstice has long been viewed as a time of divine births. Mithras was said to have been born at this time. The Christians simply adopted it for their use in 273 C.E. (Common Era).