Put the Social back into the Sacred this Yule

[Bathilde]

Put the Social back into the Sacred this Yule

Time to climb up on my soap box and scream at passers by: Heed the gods, and be freaking social at Yule!

There is a drive that I just don’t understand to put huge amounts of devotional practice into the Yuletide, stripping away the “secular” aspects of commercial gift giving and empty partying. The problem is the sacral elements are actually the bits the long Christian dark times could never strip away. I am going to tick off lots of people by doing some quoting from the lore, but trust me, I am not quoting it as divine authority for my point of view, but as an example of folk wisdom accepted as truth by our heathen ancestors.