Literature
YULE
With the decay of Autumn into Winter, the time of the Hearth has come.
In store, the ripe nuts & fruits from the hedgerow's full larder
Ruby wine and golden honeyed mead, mulled ready for the return of the Sun.
In the hearth, the flickering Flame of the Yule Fire crackling,
And so the inward journey begins, from Light into Darkness,
Visible into invisible, and to return into the Light.
The Flame's path reflects one's own.
The Dawn of the Mabon, the Young Light, the Sun child.
The flames reach high to greet the dawning of the reborn Sun,
And so starts the odyssey of the Light.
Reborn in the depths of Winter, Capricorn brings forth an infant S