Yule is different every year... There has been some bad ones but this Yule's much better than some in the past, so I'm immensely glad about that. I'm anxious, so I think I'm going to meditate and go on a walk in the woods. I also think I'm going to draw and color today. And in the evening I'm going to dance and listen to The Serpent's Egg by Dead Can Dance.
To me, Christmas is jus like any other day, but that's sad. It seems like festive people have more fun.
It's a shame on humankind that so many pigs lose their lives over this one day, for no good enough reason. I don't like how this time of year is an excuse for most people to make the kitchen look like a spiced up morgue.
I'd love to make some decorations, like dried citrus wheels. Haven't yet, but will some day. I do wear a pentacle, like everyday, if that's considered a decoration. Pentacle is an protective symbol. It also looks like a star, which is usual decoration on top of the Yule tree.
Helped mom with decorating her house. She has around 20 santa claus candles (they never get burned. Heartwarming from my point of view), figurines, pictures and so on. She has even saved old hand made decorations, made out of wood and wool, from her childhood, which is awesome.
Reading about the legend of the Holly King and the Oak King, and about the old, but also new traditions, and the origins, of the festival is facinating. I haven't established much of my own traditions, but I still like to collect information of myths, legends and origins in order to build from that.
I wear some colors of the season: dark green sweater and bright red socks. I don't really like bright colors, but these are special because I got the socks as a gift around the time I was reading The Lollipop Shoes, so these are my Lollipop Socks. After the 25th day I'm going to celebrate the sun by wearing some white clothes.
Dreaming of the day when everyone turns minimalist and asks for non-materialistic presents, such as donating to charity for them. But since that is still to come, I bought a lot of presents and spend too much money. It actually feels nice to give. To everyone I got something I KNOW they will need and will use. I have been observant.. haha!
Bonfires would be really amazing, but here where I live there are none.
BUT we got A LOT OF snow! I wished that so much. It's so beautiful and it's everywhere. I love it how the passages of all kind of different animals from dogs to hares to rodents and birds are visible in the snow.
So there are something that I don't like, and some I do like. Perhaps, it mostly depends on how much negativity I'm carrying with me, how the Yule overall turns out.
This Yule is full of childlike wonder and exitement over small things like the snow, moon and stories. Well, as close to childlike as one can get at this age...
