Winter Solstice is once again upon us! An incredibly warm, hopeful, and rejuvenating turn of the wheel. If you are still planning your Yule activities you’ll want to keep on reading.
The Winter Solstice, or Yule, is the first day of winter, and the shortest day of the year. For more Yule details and correspondences, you may check out my full post HERE. Or have a peek at my Yule Mini Course HERE.
Yule Activities to Honour Nature and the Return of the Sun
This is a time for honouring nature, the sun, and welcoming the hope and renewal of this season of rebirth. The winter season calls for a time to rest, relax, reflect, and renew. A time to look back over the year and reinvigorate the goals you have for yourself, let go of the old and make way for beautiful new beginnings in the coming months.
The winter season is not always a welcome one but try to open your mind and your heart to this amazing and beautiful shift in nature. A time of rebirth outside your door and inside your own spirit and home if you let it be.
So today I give you a list of 50 Yule activities that are fun, joy inducing, and flexible allowing you to choose things that resonate. Pick one, two or twelve, whatever works for you.
This season is full of hopeful and warm energy, a time to be cherished and embraced, so let’s start it off right. Here we go!
50 Fun and Meaningful Yule Activities
- Get some winter blooms for your home
- Add Yule and Winter touches to your altar
- Write a journal entry about what Yule means to you
- Perform an abundance ritual
- Get outside
- Decorate a Yule Tree
- Host a Yule feast
- Embrace snow magic
- Craft a Yule Log (or bake one!)
- Bake a cranberry cake
- Have a cleansing ritual bath
- Perform an Earth ritual
- Sunrise meditation
- Do a Winter Oracle or Tarot card reading
- Offering to nature
- Sun welcoming ritual
- Charge and cleanse your crystals
- Brew up some warming Wassail or Cider
- Add Yule and winter touches around the home
- Connect with the fire element
- Awake with the sun
- Wear colours connected to Yule, such as green, red, gold, or white
- Bake solstice cookies
- Start a new project
- Offering to a deity connected with winter such as Brigid, Freya, Lugh, or the Oak King
- Wear carnelian for energy and motivation
- Burn incense of Sage, Pine, or Rosemary
- Forage for pinecones and evergreens (safely and with caution)
- Perform a house cleansing
- Enjoy a Yule tea blend
- Craft a crystal pouch for renewal
- Light a candle to welcome the sun
- Craft a Yule oil or herb blend
- Journal Prompt: What are some things you would like to manifest for yourself as we head into a new year?
- Perform a ritual to recharge your spirit
- Host a Yule party
- Create a magical self care routine for winter
- Reflection journalling
- Watch the sunrise and say a blessing to nature
- Gratitude ritual
- Craft a witch jar for postitivity
- Journal prompt: Reflect on this past year. What changes would you like to make moving forward?
- Craft a Yuletide Wreath for your door
- Ring bells on Yule morning to welcome the light and drive away negativity
- Make a magical mist for energy
- Bake gingerbread
- Go carolling
- Donate to charity or volunteer
- Write out some new intentions for the coming year
- Fill your kitchen with seasonal whole foods for winter
So, how many will you do this December 21st? Remember to embrace this new season with joy in your heart, drink in the invigorating energy that fills the day, and make it meaningful for YOU.
Final thoughts.
Do you have your festivities for the year planned yet?
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Sending many blessings for a beautiful Yuletide season friend!
Yours in health and magick,
Krystle xo
