Tag: winter solstice
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Don’t just toss your tree…
Do this next time you’re saying farewell to a beloved friend: dress them beautifully with decorations and surround them with light and love, speak your gratitude aloud as you touch them with reverence, bring them to their final resting place and offer tobacco, consecrated blood, and wine; drum and sing and dance for joy and…
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Ritual Sacrifice: A Solstice Tradition
In our family, we celebrate Yule with the ritual sacrifice of a wild evergreen from the woods surrounding our property in the Colorado Rockies. We hike out in the woods on a sunny day, we choose a tree and ask its permission to be sacrificed. We make offerings of song, dance, sacred substances and herbs,…