[blukatzen]

God Yule Heathens and Pagans of PeakOil.com!

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'G')od Yule Heathens and Pagans of PeakOil.com!

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'G')od Yule Heathens and Pagans of PeakOil.com!

[mercurygirl]

Thank you blu, and the same to you.

Thank you also for including the website, it's a good one.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '"')God Yule" is an expression dating from pre-xtian time in N. Europe

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '"')God Yule" is an expression dating from pre-xtian time in N. Europe

[Stratovarius]

They're solstice trees you n00bz! so that nobody gets offended.

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'T')hey're solstice trees you n00bz! so that nobody gets offended.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'A')hh, but what do the noble Tannenbaum..the "x-mas" tree of nowadays...represent? Do you know?

[blukatzen]

I will try to post the 12 days thoughts here on this thread. Yule began with "Mother's Night" on the 20th of December and lasts for 12 days.."The 12 Days of Yule".

Written by Steven McNallen from the AFA Website..

Good words to think on..Glad Yule to all!

The First Day of Yuletide -

The holy season begins. The big challenge is to stop the commercial
feeding frenzy, and to feed our souls instead.

Try to break the cultural (anti-cultural?) trance today. Remember who
you are: a person connected to the ancestors.to kin.to descendants.to
the Holy Powers.to the natural world.

Light a candle tonight, for the practice of Industiousness.

But you've been industrious. Right now, it is time to do something
else, to reap the rewards of your industriousness. Stop the action.
Take a break. Go look at the stars or listen to the rain fall or feel
the warmth of the fire or touch someone.

Thus begins this Yuletide.

Happy Mother's Night!

[blukatzen]

From Steven McNallen...

The Second Day of Yuletide, December 21

Yule is a time of recapitulation, of summary, in which the whole year
is represented in twelve days - one month per day.

What else can you do in the remaining eleven days that has this same
spirit of recapitulation? Read the Voluspa, perhaps the most beautiful
and complete poem in the Elder Edda. In it we find the story of this
present cycle of cosmic time, in its arising.its becoming.its falling
away.to rise again.

Don't read it all tonight, however. Spin it out slowly over the days.
Finish at Twelfth Night. Read it aloud. Sense it in your body.

Light a candle tonight, for Justice.

And be as just as the driving destiny that shapes the Wyrd of the World.
Or, failing that, be as just as you can.

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'A')hh, but what do the noble Tannenbaum..the "x-mas" tree of nowadays...represent? Do you know?

[Arkwright]

Indeed, merry Yuletime fellow peakoilers, lurkers, and doomfappers!

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Happy Solstice all! May the Gods and Goddesses bless you with prosperity and fulfillment.

[blukatzen]

Continuing on..from Steven McNallen..

The Third Day of Yuletide

The ancestors are always with us, but in some sense their presence is
more immediate during Yule. We feel them in the moments of quiet,
walking under the stars or through the wintry woods. They linger near
the fireplace, too, as the crackling flames cast moving shadows across
the dimmed room. And sometimes, when making grandma's favorite Yule
recipe or just remembering what this season was like for us as
children, the past seems to rub up against the present like a friendly
cat that has stealthily, unnoticed, padded into the room. When we set
a place for the ancestors at the Yuletide table, we know that in some
way we cannot fully fathom, they delight in the attention.

We think on those who have gone before us - their gift of life to
us, and our obligation to burnish the family name with love and leave
it shining all the more brightly for our having been here.

This third day of Yuletide, light a candle for Courage and let it
shine bravely across the years.

[erl]

Merry Christmas to all.

God Bless us, each and every one.

erl

[eastbay]

I'll step up with erl and risk a suspension or a banning....

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'I')'ll step up with erl and risk a suspension or a banning....

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

[erl]

Yay, Eastbay!