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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
Kerry:
--- Quote from: newyearsday on December 21, 2006, 03:36:38 pm ---What's mead?
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I found the following recipe for "Soft Mead" in the book "Wicca - A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner":
* I quart water, preferably spring water
* 1 cup honey
* 1 slice lemon
* 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
Boil together all ingredients in a non-metallic pot. While boiling, scrape off the rising "scum" with a wooden spoon. When no more rises add the following:
* pinch salt
* juice of 1/2 lemon
Strain and cool. Drink in place of alcoholic mead or wine during the Simple Feast.
So mote it be.
Kerry
newyearsday:
Thanks for the recipe Kerry. I enjoyed the Solstice (though I was only a minute shy of still being on the subway when it happened) and drew a couple of tarot cards for myself shortly after. Nice to see we have several like-minded worshipers among us.
Front-Ranger:
Thank you, this is wonderful information!!
Front-Ranger:
Time to prepare for the Yule, which occurs on December 22 this year!!
Where's my merry band of revelers? Yule is a celebration, even though it is held in the darkest portion of the year. This year I have come to appreciate long moonless nites as never before.
I would like to talk a little about the wheel of the year, and yule chime in I hope!! The year begins...well, that's the point, it doesn't begin. It neither begins or ends. It's a wheel. So, let's just check in to where we are right now. At this point in the year, the Goddess is preparing to give birth to her sun. That's right, the sun is her son. It's also her lover and husband. But, I'm getting ahead of myself!!
Front-Ranger:
Winter Solstice is called "Mean Geimredh", mid-winter, in Irish, "Alban Arthan", the point of roughness, in Wales, "Modranicht", mother night, to the Anglo-Saxon's, "Deuorius Riuri", great divine winter feast, in the Coligny Calendar and "Yule." The word "Yule," according to Bede and various other authorities of the olden time is derived from an archaic Norse word "Jol," meaning "a wheel."
The Winter Solstice represents the rebirth of the sun, which is a particularly important turning point. The night of Solstice is the longest night of the year. Darkness triumphs; and yet, gives way and changes into light. (Taken from "The Wheel of the Year at Muin Mound Grove, ADF" by Rev. Skip Ellison.)
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