To all my pagan friends, I hope your Yule is a blessed one.

To everyone else, when the sun rises tomorrow, the days will get longer and longer. Happy Winter Solstice!

location: Seattle, WA mood: chipper tags: holidays, pagan, yule

Willow (a.k.a. lunargypsie) told me last night that if we can get the money together, Abney Park at Edison for New Years would be my Yule present again. So I have a list of things that I need to purchase and about how much I expect to spend when everything is said and done.

Last year I stayed at the Kawada Hotel, about two blocks from the Edison. I met a fair number of people last year from L.A. and the surrounding region. My question to those down there, would you be willing to either have a guest crash on your couch for a night or go in on a hotel room for a night?

Is anyone interested in such a venture?

location: Kirkland, WA mood: giddy tags: abney park, new years eve, travel, yule

I am very tired so I do not thing I will be up to greet the sun in less than four hours. *pout*

However, to all of my pagan friends who read my journal: Have a very Blessed Yule!

To all of my non-pagan friends, may the returning light of the solstice warm your hearts and dreams as we step out of the dark half of the year.

location: Kirkland, WA mood: tired tags: holidays, pagan, yule

As I write this, it is still dark outside and the sun has yet to crest the eastern horizon,but the promise of longer days is there. It's as if the light has been flipped on.

The longest night is almost over and I am here to greet the sun.

What was the first song to pop into my head this morning? "Return To Me Beloved" by Anne Hill from Circle Round and Sing.

I've been searching through the darkness
   Return to me beloved
For the night's gone on too long
   Return to me my love
I won't rest until I've found you
   Return to me beloved
And you bring me back the dawn
   Return to me my love

I've been searching through the darkness
   Return to me beloved
For the night's gone on too long
   Return to me my love
I won't rest until I've found you
   Return to me beloved
And you bring me back the dawn
   Return to me my love

I've been searching through the darkness
   Return to me beloved
For the night's gone on too long
   Return to me my love
I won't rest until I've found you
   Return to me beloved
And you bring me back the dawn
   Return to me my love

location: The Clark Zoo mood: good music: Loreena McKinnett - The Book of Secrets - The Mummer's Dance tags: holidays, yule