PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG My new home has proven to be an important refuge from the busyness of my electronic world, and in the wet Oregon winter—Oh, look! Sunshine just now as I write!—warmth becomes as rare as sunshine. It’s not that cold here, really, compared to lots of other places, but the unremitting damp […]
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Wishing Upon a Winter Star: Yule Tarot Blog Hop
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Welcome to Yule and the Winter Solstice! May the fires of your soul burn bright in the darkness and make of your desires another star in the winter sky. 🙂 I love the Wildwood Tarot for seasonal connections, especially the Winter Solstice, so I’ll be using that […]
Embrace the Night: Yule Tarot Blog Hop 2016
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Hope you have your own Yule log to provide heat and light for those long winter nights (in the northern hemisphere, that is); the days will soon shift to longer again, but it will take some time, even more than the twelve days of traditional Yule, to see the sun high […]
Winter Wonderland: Yule Tarot Blog Hop
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Welcome to the Yule season on the Gulf of Mexico coast; not that cold, but damp and drizzly, with fog sometimes descending in a manner of minutes to create magical lights. People put out Christmas lights and decorate trees, but it’s not quite the same crispness of air as in more northern climates. […]
Lighting a Candle—Yule Tarot Blog Hop 2013
PREVIOUS BLOG | MASTER LIST | NEXT BLOG Happy light, happy warmth, happy Yuletide! Welcome, whether you’ve hopped over snowy fields or sunlit rainforest canopies, from J Jordan Hoggard‘s or Vivianne Kacal‘s lighted stops along the way. Last year, I focused on embracing the night as part of the passage through the dark to the light of spring, or […]
Tarot Blog Hop: Yule
It’s time for Yule! Wikipedia says: “Yule was an indigenous midwinter festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization. The earliest references to it are in the form of month names, where the Yule-tide period lasts around two months, falling along the end of the calendar year between what […]