Celebrate Winter Solstice
Yuletide Planning Guide by Selena Fox
Rituals, Chants, Ideas, Videos, & Podcasts
Strengthen bonds with family and friends by visiting and/or exchanging gifts and greetings. Decorate your home with lights, greens, and holiday colors. Bless your home with a Yule wreath on your front door and sprigs of mistletoe inside. If you are part of a group, take up a collection of food and/or clothing at your Yule gathering and give what you collected to a social service agency to distribute to the needy (for example, Circle's Yuletide Charity Food Drive). Place sunflower seeds outside for wild birds to feast upon. Greet the Sun at dawn on Solstice morning by ringing bells. Do magic for a more peaceful planet.
CHANTS
Winter Solstice Chants by Selena FoxMERRY SOLSTICE adapted by Selena Fox
We wish you a Merry Solstice! We wish you a Merry Solstice!
We wish you a Merry Solstice and a Solar New Year!
CUSTOMS, LORE, & MORE
- 13 Ways to Celebrate Pagan Yuletide
- Yuletide Blessing
- Celebrating Winter Solstice
- Sacred Plants of Winter Solstice
- Pagan Yuletide Greenery
- Yuletide Chants
- Winter Solstice Celebrations for Families and Households
- Saturnalia: Winter Solstice in Pagan Rome
- Saturnalia Poem
- Wintertime Wassail
- Riding with Holda: Winter Solstice Goddess by Selena Fox
CIRCLE PODCASTS
Winter Solstice Rituals
Winter Solstice Workshops
PRESS
Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2011
Winter Solstice: The cold-weather celebration is hot again.
Huffington Post, December 20, 2014
Winter Solstice 2014: Shortest Day of the Year Marked by Pagan Celebrations
International Business Times, December 19, 2014
Winter Solstice 2014: 3 Things to Know about Pagan Yule Celebrations
VIDEO
Complete 2014 Winter Solstice Pageant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Dyg1MF_-U
Mistletoe by Selena Fox at 2010 Winter Solstice Pageant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vqOqYHRuJk
AUDIO INTERVIEWS
Celebrating Winter Solstice interview with Selena Fox
Awen's Path Podcast by Damh the Bard (David P. Smith), December 19, 2010
http://www.davidduir.com/Podcast/Entries/2010/12/19_Awens_Path_Episode_8_Celebrating_Winter_Solstice_with_Selena_Fox.html
Selena Fox interview on Winter Solstice: Past, Present, Future
December 20, 2010 with Forest Witch (.mp3)
Winter Solstice Ritual (December 21, 2011)
words, meditation, music & more, guided by Selena Fox on Pagan Warrior Radio
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/witchschool/2011/12/21/pagan-warrior-radio-with-selena-fox-pam-kelly
Winter Solstice (December 11, 2007)
Winter Solstice around the world on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders on Wisconsin Public Radio
Graham Harvey & Selena Fox talk with host Lori Skelton
Winter Solstice Sacred Sites (December 15, 2009)
Selena Fox interview on The Sacred Traveler on Blog Talk Radio
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/eric-butler/2009/12/15/the-sacred-traveler--winter-solstice-sacred-sites-w-selena-fox