Tag: Yule
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Closing the Sacred Door of 2025 & Lighting the Way Into 2026
There is something holy about the final hours of a year. Not the loud kind of holy. Not the sparkly, forced-joy version. But the quiet kind the kind that asks us to sit with what really happened. As 2025 draws to a close, I feel deep gratitude not because it was easy, but because it…
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Title: The Mask That Would Not Age
Subtitle: On illusion, embodiment, and making peace with time There is a particular kind of dissonance that happens when you encounter someone who has spent their life running from consequence—and then watch them try to outrun time itself. Aging is not the enemy that we were taught to fear. It is a record. It is…
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🌑 Mother’s Night — The First Breath of Yule
Tonight marks Mother’s Night, the quiet opening of the Twelve Days of Yule. Before the feasting. Before the light. Before the world turns outward again. This night belongs to the Mothers. Not just the ones who raised us, but the ones who carried us through time— the grandmothers, the great-grandmothers, the unseen women whose names…
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Blessed Yule: Honoring the Return of the Light
At Mainely Mystics, Yule is not about perfection, productivity, or pushing forward. Yule is about pausing. It is the sacred still point of the year—the longest night, the quiet womb of winter—where darkness is not feared, but honored as the place where light is reborn. On Yule, we remember that even when the world feels…
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