It’s that time of year again when the holidays are already in stores and you’re making cocoa regardless of the temperature outside: Yule! I don’t put my Yule decorations up until after Thanksgiving (American), but the pre-game? It’s already started. Below are eight ideas for Yuletide fun that I hope you’ll enjoy. 1. Full Year Divination: Now that the nights are long, doing divination for the full Wheel of the Year to come is a fun way to pass a lazy evening. It takes a little while, but the results can be illuminating. Suggested spreads include the Yule Tree spread found in Yule by Susan Pesz ..read more

Over the past year I’ve softened a lot on the blending of pagan Yule traditions and Christian/secular Christmas traditions. One of my personal favorite traditions growing up was an advent calendar; probably because I got a present every day. Regardless of my dubious childhood motivations, below are some ideas of how to adapt an advent calendar to a pagan tradition that I call a Yule Countdown Calendar. I hope your family enjoys it. (And yes, I know it’s November, I’m just excited about the upcoming holiday season.) What’s a Yule Countdown Calendar? The word “advent” is a play on the Latin wor ..read more