by Jessie Cross | Dec 21, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
A Solstice Benediction for the Longest Night, the Turning Year, and the Quiet Return of Light The Winter Solstice marks a moment so quiet it can be missed if you’re not paying attention. The sun reaches its lowest arc in the sky. Night reaches its longest...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 21, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
Why Winter’s Deepest Nights May Hold Spiritual Wisdom, Inner Renewal, and the Quiet Turning of the Year Every December, the light thins. Mornings arrive late, evenings fall early, and the world takes on a blue-grey hush that feels older than time. Many people sense...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 21, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
How to Work With the Energy of the Winter Solstice for Reflection, Renewal, and Deep Insight Every year, the Winter Solstice draws us into the deepest fold of the season. It’s a night that has been honored for millennia as a turning point between what has been...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 18, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
Discover the old European tradition of burning evergreens after the Winter Solstice (and what this fire ceremony reveals about cleansing, transition, and the returning light). A Winter Rite Hidden in Plain Sight Across the northern world, the weeks after the Winter...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 17, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
Ancient Yule imagery (like mistletoe, evergreens, sunwheels, wassail, and the Yule Goat) still shapes modern Christmas décor in ways most people never notice. Every winter, our world fills with familiar decorations. I’m talking about evergreen branches hung...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 16, 2025 | Animal Medicine, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Discover the deeper meaning of winter animals, birch trees, ice, snow tracks, and stars—through folklore, symbolism, and the quiet magic of the winter forest. Entering the Quiet World of Winter When winter descends, the forest becomes a different kind of temple. Noise...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 15, 2025 | Plant Medicine, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Uncover the botanical wisdom, folklore, and metaphysical meaning of winter’s most ancient trees. Evergreens are the quiet mystics of winter. While other trees shed their leaves and retreat into the long sleep of December, evergreens remain alert, vibrant, and...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 15, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
A mystical, historical guide to the ancient symbols of Yule, from the evergreen’s endurance to the rebirth of the winter sun. As the northern world tilts into its deepest darkness, the Winter Solstice arrives quietly. It’s an astronomical turning, a mythic...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 15, 2025 | Angels, Christmas, Winter Solstice (Yule)
A spiritual guide to the four angelic energies most associated with Christmas, the Solstice, and the quiet magic of winter. Every winter, as the nights stretch longer and the sun sinks earlier, something in the human spirit instinctively reaches toward light. Candles...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 14, 2025 | Angels, Christmas, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Explore the symbolism, history, and metaphysical energy of Christmas angels—and why so many people feel angelic presence during the holiday season. Why Angels May Feel Closer at Christmas Every December, angel imagery quietly fills the world. They appear on tree...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 14, 2025 | Winter Solstice (Yule)
A countdown of candlelight, reflection, and seasonal intention to help you prepare for the longest night of the year. As the calendar edges toward the Winter Solstice—the longest night of the year—many people begin to feel a quiet inner shift. Something about...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 8, 2025 | Christmas, Gratitude Practices, Winter Solstice (Yule)
A Beautiful Tradition for Christmas, Yule, or the Winter Season There’s something universally human about tying a handwritten message to a tree branch. And it’s an ideal time for it. Winter asks us to look inward. A wishing tree (whether kept inside on a...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 7, 2025 | Christmas, Hearth Magic, Kitchen Witchery, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Burning, baking, and blessing the log that symbolizes warmth, renewal, and the return of light at the winter solstice. Long before strings of electric lights wrapped around suburban rooftops, people gathered around firelight (literal flames) to mark the turning of the...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 6, 2025 | Christmas, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Create a meaningful ornament, seal your hopes for the year ahead, and start a beautiful seasonal tradition. During the final weeks of the year, when twinkle lights glow and evergreen branches fill our spaces with their scent, many people feel a quiet pull toward...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 5, 2025 | Numerology, Winter Solstice (Yule)
How to use December 12 for reflection, intention-setting, and gentle energetic reset Every year, December brings a quiet pivot point. It’s not yet the official Winter Solstice, not quite holiday climax, and not 100% tucked into real winter hibernation yet. In...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 4, 2025 | Christmas, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Discover the winter doorway between worlds — where darkness, dreams, and folklore shape our most enchanted stories. Winter has always been the season when stories deepen. Something shifts as the light thins, as the Cold Moon rises, as the Winter Solstice marks the...
by Jessie Cross | Dec 1, 2025 | The Wild Hunt, Winter Solstice (Yule)
December’s Spirit Winds, Ancestral Processions, and the Liminal Magic of Midwinter There’s a popular belief in some spiritual circles that the veil between worlds only thins once a year, on Samhain (October 31st). Then it immediately seals back up as soon as the final...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 27, 2025 | Krampus, Santa Claus, Winter Solstice (Yule)
From a 4th-Century Bishop to a Beloved Winter Gift-Bringer, Explore the History, Myth, and Magic Behind St. Nicholas Day Every December, as the nights stretch long and the world leans into candlelight and quiet, the story of St. Nicholas begins to shimmer again. Long...
