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Lovely video! Another old tradition of the Yule log: get a real tree for decorating, and after Yule is over, set it out in the garage. At Candlemas, cut the boughs off, and burn them, using the flame for visualizing your plans for the new Spring. At Beltane, use the trunk to weave your ribbons in dancing with your coven. And then at last, the trunk becomes the next Yule log and you get that years decorating tree. I've never had a fireplace to be able to do this, and regardless of how fun it sounds, Minnesota is no place to be outside for rituals in the winter!. Maybe someday...
Thank you for sharing ! I love that tradition ! Blessings and a very happy solstice to you :-)
I love this thank you for sharing this!
Thank you.
I work in a call center and today I just got yell at all day. I want to cry. Your video helped me calm down and made my day better
I understand you perfectly. I also work in a call center and I think all of the calls I took today were people complaining about everything and anything. This video also helped me.
You're not alone, things will get better :)
There are call centers with happy or happier customers. Please - you don't deserve to be yelled at. Find a work home where the coworkers and customers are kind (at least on most days) . No work place is perfect tho.
Omg I feel you too I work at a call center it’s been so draining this month I think it’s cuz it’s the holidays but whatever it is people have been so cranky lately
Red is also blood, especially from a heathen perspective, it represents life energy, vitality, and physical warmth.
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
FUEL SANTAS SLEIGH
"I'm dyslexic and I'm stressed" 🤣🤣🧡 good print for a t-shirt 😘
Great video Olivia, perfect start to my morning. Happy solstice 💫
To be honest, I miss christmas from when I was a kid. There was snow everywhere, my sisters and I would go Sledging and the whole house was decoratet. Now the magic is kinda gone, with the weather looking like a cold and wet autumn, almost up to no decorations and opening your christmas calendar has become not as awesome as before. I really miss the old Christmas feeling
We always celebrate the return of the light by having moon and sun ornaments on our Yule tree and before sunrise we turn the ornaments to the sun side. In the evening we turn all the lights out and sit in the dark for some time meditating on the year past and then we run around the entire house ringing a bell and turning on all the lights to welcome the light. You can also just light candles but you want it bright! We do a complete house clean before Yule and on the evening of Yule we sweep out the old energy from inside the house to outside. We also started a new tradition of leaving a small amount of items we think symbolize what we wish to attract in the new year and as the sun rises we bring those items inside the house so that the first things to enter our home is the intentions we have for the new year. Yule is one of my favorite celebrations!
Lucia was on the day of the winter solstice originally, but then the gregorian calender happened and mucked stuff up so now we celebrate Lucia on the 13th of December.
Look up Jonna Jinton here on YT if you want to see something amazing, she just posted a gorgeous Lucia video where she is singing one of our traditional Lucia songs as well as portraying her. 💙❄
(Oh, and the intonation is on the 'i' so it's LucIa)
i thought it was Saint Lucia, sankta Lucia? she was a christian martyre but maybe this italian legend stuck in the North because it coincided with older pagan traditions - like all christian traditions.
Omg she is one of my FAVORITE creators and I was going to post a clip of her video but I couldn’t figure out how to do that without loosing the quality of video!
@@cranberrybe i think like most pagan traditions, the christians took it, added some christian flair to it to make it proper in their book and now we have pagan traditions with christian names. I dont know if it has always been called Lucia and the sankta/saint was added on, or if the whole Lucia name was added, but the tradition to walk through the longest night of the year with candles to light it up is old and pre-christian (to my knowing)
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust agreed. Absolutely amazing!
Vad i Lucia-traditionen menar du skulle ha med vintersolståndet att göra från början? Har aldrig hört att Lucia skulle sträcka sig till förkristen tid eller vara en del av vintersolståndsfirandet tidigare, eller sett några belägg för det. Tvärtom att Lucia är en förhållandevis ny tradition, som mixats ihop med en massa andra folkliga traditioner, inte minst gamla studentbus. Blir jättenyfiken!
I have a speaking disorder called Cluttering is basically where my mind goes faster than I can talk and it's gets jumbled together and I found Journal helps a lot to clear my head. I Tunisian crochet 2 scarfs for 2 amazing women who are helping me learn and grow. My sister and I used to sleep in front of the Christmas tree when we were little. Many Yule blessing Olivia
"I'm dyslexic and I'm stressed" is my LIFFEEE XD
But on a real note, awesome video and so happy to be apart of this community, even if I am quiet a lot of the time c:
We always go for a swim in the sea as near to New year's eve as we can to wash away any bad from the old year x
Good one ! I might do that.
@@vivianp5962 I hope it's as lovely as our pre-Christmas/solstice one was yesterday , we had the beach to ourselves and as it was raining part way through we saw the most gloriously clear double rainbow xx
@鈴響 I'm thinking maybe a smudge swim repeat combo 🤔
Defining gonna be swimming for a good minute to wash away this year off 😂😂
Denver Zoo Lights is always so chilly! I always remember being wrapped up in blankets and being pulled in a wagon around the zoo and drinking hot chocolate
I celebrate Norse pagan Yule. I recognize the winter solstice and trying to keep physical and emotional light/warmth throughout the winter. But I also honor my god, Odin and my goddess, Nyx especially strongly around this time. I observe the stories of the Yule goat, Odin riding Sleipnir, Baba Yaga, etc. I connect with the correspondences of the herbs, stones, and decorations of the seasons and use it as a time of rest and rejuvenation. I use the time to really connect to my Norse pagan roots and try to reconnect with family energies and bonds.
ive been trying to make me and one of my witchy friends a cute little besom for cleaning out the old energies to get ready for the new year!!! ive been finding materials outside to use and trying to find some cute mushrooms to study. its so nice to go out and reconnect with nature and seeing how it's changed from the spring and summer
My family don’t have a fireplace but this year we are using candles in little holders on top of a log as a representational alternative that we can put on the alter. Sure there are a lot of alternative though. Anyway many blessings to all 🙃
Thats a great idea!
You’re one of 2 people who’ve helped me so much on my new journey. I just found your channel about a week or 2 ago as I began my research and it’s been great, refreshing to find where I belong. Thank you for making these videos 😊 I hope you have a wonderful yule and Christmas with wonderful days to come
I'm happy I can help! Enjoy your holidays
When I heard you say "foilage" I was reassured of your greatness!
My sister: *play Christmas songs in November*
Me:😑
*Baby it’s Cold comes on*
Me: “I gotta go away~”
Im secretly gay~
I don’t know how... I’ll tell my family~
@@roverdoesstuff5787 for lesbians: it’s too cold outside, so my girlfriends with me~
For gays: it’s too cold outside so my boyfriends with me~
My father is not proud of me, my mother is banging at the closet door~
A tradition I newly found for myself is preparing a cup of Salep and cosy up with classic music. Salep is a Turkish drink that is sweet, thick and can only be drank hot. I didn't know it until I visited Istanbul in winter and I was so happy to discover it that I carried it with me back home.
With all due respect, you look both festive and stunning
Your theory about SAD honestly makes me feel a little better. I was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia this month, and I've noticed as it's gotten colder/darker, my fatigue symptoms have gotten much worse. While I definitely feel that my condition is absolutely medical and needs medical treatment etc, I do sometimes think that different kinds of energies can have an impact on my physical symptoms. I sleep very late into the morning these days, which I hate because I feel this desperate need to be productive (overcompensating for the limitations of my disability, I suspect), and I wonder if it's my body and the seasons trying to tell me to chill tf out.
This video it so aesthetically pleasing, I come back for it again and again
Classic Christmas music rocks! It's the Pop stuff that makes me want to rip my hair out!
Wow, sweety. Your editing skills are on-point! Look at you go 😍💕
Thank you!! Stock footage for the win!!
Have been spending the last few evenings watching past videos- just got home from teaching, to learn from you.
Today my tea is chamomile vanilla with some local cream honey with elderberries.
Thank you for your videos
Ughhh I completely agree with the way you spoke about the hustle and bustle of how the world is now I think about it very often I hate running on a clock this is the time to get up this is the time for this and that blahhh 😩 I prefer to do things when I feel them like hungry .. have lunch, it’s dark ...go to sleep.. it’s light ..get busy doing things I think I heard recently that humans were designed to nap I can’t remember where but i guess that’s why I always feel a lot better if I can grab a nap during the afternoon 😂 I understand nowadays it’s hard to live like this but I also think a lot more people are waking up to the feelings like ... why why am I doing this to myself and living like this when I would be a lot happier with less stuff and more freedom 💚💚
It’s just annoying that I have so much school work that I barely have time to do anything :( There’s not enough time in the day anymore
I love that you are putting people photos at the end of the videos! It makes me feel a part of the coven even more!
I spend so much time in the hashtag, people post such wonderful things
I experience a lot of disconnect around Christmas time because I live in the southern hemisphere and Christmas happens at the same time as the summer solstice. It feels so wrong to be celebrating all these winter traditions in the heat - not to mention that it's so much harder to slip my pagan celebrations into my family's traditional ones. I often wonder how much more I'd enjoy this time of year if I lived in a country where it coincided with yule...
One of your best videos yet! I love how you broke it down in so many different aspects. Lovely to watch and listen to 👍
Excellent prompts! Thank you! Happy Holidays, Olivia!
Lucia is a common tradition in all of Scandinavia 😊♥️
Oops! My apologies!
The Witch Of Wonderlust No worries! I was just adding/informing. I don’t expect you to know everything about everything! The Danes and Norwegians celebrate Lucia very similarly, while the Swedes have some different aspects to their celebration. I believe it’s also celebrated at least in parts of Italy, along with a few more of the Northern European countries. But otherwise it’s not a very common tradition.
I think you would find it quite interesting, though, to look into the potential alternative origins of the tradition, both Christian and pagan.
To name a few, a belief was that Lussinata - a witch and/or she-devil - would come down from the hills on the 13th until Yule and severely punish anyone and everyone who hadn’t finished certain chores and obligations before this time. With her she had her following of spirit/she-devils called the Lussiferda. The sorta resembles the Saint Lucia tradition of one Lucia bride leading a following Lucia girls.
Between the return of Lussinata and Yule it was also believed that trolls, evil spirits, spirits of the dead, and other undergroundlings were able to roam free.
Other theories suggest that a similar celebration was held in honor of deities like Sunna (Norse goddess of the sun).
And as a final example, some areas of the Lucia celebrating lands don’t - or at least didn’t in older Christian times - celebrate Saint Lucia’s day as it was believed to be a false celebration that in reality was for Lucifer in disguise or for Lilith (in part because of the similarities in the names). 😊
Love those prompt questions. Thank you, & a very happy solstice to you!
Thank you Olivia I've been waiting for this one yeah, I love the start of your videos too so very pretty 😊🖤
I love your videos. I love gifting warm stuff for Yule.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! I’m incorporating some new Yule traditions in my family this year and love the ideas that you’ve shared ☺️
Your videos, message, presence, aesthetic makes me feel so calm and comforted. I love watching your videos. I hope you enjoy the solstice and Yule season!
Thanks for so many good ideas. Meditation, rest and divination are wonderful for me .
Thank you so much for making this video, I'm really been racking my brain trying to find the best ways that I could celebrate Yule and you've helped me so much along this journey and finding my way :) You are amazing
Very interesting to hear people talk about seasons and how different countries have similar rituals around them. A winter solstice in my country would be just any other day, so we dont have any rituals like those. Just another Tuesday or something lol. At most we have our harvest festivals (no such thing as summer). Thats about it. Planting all year round. No winter, no spring, no summer, no fall. No samhain (?) And such.
I have that pumpkin chai and it's amazing 😍. It's very cold here in NY, I'd love some of that Cali weather right about now!
“I’m dyslexic and I’m stressed” me too honey.... me too
This channel is so useful and meaningful for a baby witch like me, thank you.
I totally agree. Seasonal decorations and lots of Hygge. You can make a low-key altar, and no one will be the wiser about your craft. ;D It's such a great time to tap into meditations with the crone, doing shadow work, and working under the Cold Moon, Wolf Moon, and/or Snow Moon. All in time for setting intentions for the new year. Happy Winter Solstice to all!
Aww, you featured my Instagram post. Thank you, love! Love your videos! Happy solstice!
Thank you, I have been very unwell with mental health problems. The Xmas spirit is in short supply for me this year. This video has given me hope, calmness, gentle energy. I'm definitely going to get a yule log cake, and drink rose bud tea💖💞💖💕💖💖💕. Resting and being calm and quiet is what I need right now. Yule tidings 🌪️☃️☃️❄️☀️☀️☀️. Xcx
Hey Olivia! Just wanted wish you a happy holiday season and say thank you for everything. You're definitely an inspiration, and your energy is intoxicating. I appreciate all you do for us. But, don't forget to take time out for YOU. Blessed be!
Thanks Paula!
I found that tea a few weeks ago & it's SO good I love it
Love your videos and would really like to know where i can get a copy of your little cup of magic. Thanks for all your hard work and have a wonderful winter solstice.
Hi, dear Olivia!!! A very blessed Yule Tide to You!!!
Lovely video 💙 I deal with seasonal depression and this video is so inspiring. Thank you so much
My birthday actually happens over the winter solstice! (Dec 21)
I always wondered if that meant anything spiritually special hehe. What do you think Olivia?
I bet you're super shadowy deep! Haha, I'm told doing rituals and spells on your birthday or when the sun or moon is in your sign it boosts the spellwork!
I love that tea.
Best gift of all "Your Time". Spend time with those who you rarely see. I can't emphasize how important that is. Those in hospitals ( mental, drug, older folks,etc ). That's what this time of the season is for, to spend time with others.
you're makeup is so pretty!
Denver native here shout out to the mile high city!
When you were talking about your tea I smelled it and tasted it . Lol I love that tea so much 😜
Thank you for this i really enjoyed learning more about solstice and as always your editing is stunning
Thank you! All my stock footage saved me haha
This was such a good video! If you are wanting a great book to read about the different months and ways to celebrating each sabbat and month, I highly recommend "Hedge Witch Book of Days by Mandy Mitchell". This is one of my utmost favourites!
I'm making little plans for my first Winter Solstice celebration. We'll be making mini Yule logs (since I don't have a fire place), writing out things we're proud of and things we want to leave behind this year, lighting candles, and enjoying good company :)
Hi Olivia, Thank you for your videos, I also follow Jenna from the White Witch Parlour she is so wonderful and helpful, Sending love & light blessed be
listening to this while crafting some pentacles from twigs and it's really soothing :)
Love from China !!!! We celebrate winter solstice by having ‘dongzhi’, it’s one of the most important day of our rich tradition in celebrating seasons and the changes. We Chinese do enjoy food, we make special foods for like literally every holiday and celebrations, lol.
I would LOVE to experience Dongzhi in person one day!
The Witch Of Wonderlust today is actually Dongzhi, in where I live right now! My family held a get together, but I don’t get to enjoy the winter-y feel cuz I live in the very south hahaha
Lovely video. Could you add in those tutorials though? I'm looking forward to those bird feeder wreaths!
Thank you Olivia. Hope you have a wonderful trip.. Enjoy being with your boyfriend. Love from Los Angeles.
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Thanks Laura, always enjoy seeing your comments
Wishing you all the best on this Winter Solstice 2019.
I just barely got the info on Saturday's solstice. Sounds great!
oh... I never connected the "Bûche" (the Log Cake that you can eat) with the actual Yule Log tradition... somehow that makes so much sense, it hurts that I never saw it until you mentioned it ^^"
We celebrate Christmas and Yule in our house. If you ever get the chance, read "Yule" by Llewellyn. They are small books that describe what the celebration is about, it's got recipes and spells. They have a book for each Pagan holiday and they are such good books. They also are very inexpensive, highly recommend if you get the chance! Thank you again for your videos, I always look forward to them, Blessed Be ❤️❤️❤️!!!
DAMN THOSE CLAVICLES!!
Olivia can you make more spell videos pls
Little sister cosmicly speaking) you rock, and thank you again
My housemate was asking if we wanted to try doing a Yule Log this year. I think he'll be even more interested in it if I tell him it involves whisky. lol Thanks a mil. there was a lot in this video.
Lol your roommate and I have that in common
I was the same with log but I made mine into a tealight holder so the candles would be burnt instead
I've just gotten back in my craft(unrelated to the video but whatever lol) cause work 😂, I recently had gotten fired like two days ago, but you know what, I said I was done with retail, I wanted to find another job or a second job and be there just like one day a week, hell one guy who had two jobs there and was there one day a week could barely do it, hell two weeks in and only a short time after my training was over I was already said bad things about, at this point after the initial shock and how the firing was delivered, I'm just like oh well, some things just won't last, I did say in a post I made that in fall that things were going to happen and things were going to change, it was a feeling, but it was a pleasant feeling, it wasn't dreading or anything, it was a good feeling, and I'm here just like...actually I'm not even mad anymore I was mad for a day or two and then I was good 😂, and I still have my holiday spirit after getting fired is that normal XD?
I went into this whole thing but that's not surprising for me 😂😂, but hey, I have time to get back to practicing my craft and finding...maybe even a better job, hey my mom said this could be a blessing in disguise she might be right 🤷♀️, and I get to go to my family's annual Christmas Eve party, maybe, actually no I won't say maybe I'll I will, I will find a job that's gonna let me have the time I want and if it turns to be retail again, least I have my holidays back that's what I cared about the most❤️
Ohhh you are so great !!!
I wanted to ask you how can i ACTIVATE the silver ring of witchcraft that I made, with an inner HIDDEN space for MANDRAGORA. I want to literally bind it with me and my protection!!
Hmmm....journaling is a good idea...especially writing down your thoughts and also about people...I've been thinking of doing that lately...noticing people around me, just observing them and writing down anything that might be interesting... you never know what information might be useful...lot of patterns reveal a lot of things...information is always useful right..hashana
Anyway, great video...although I think this might be an old one..
GOT to check out Caley's Apothecary website (based on Clapham High Street London). THE best tea. The sleep tea REALLY works ( I promise). Don't know if they ship internationally though ☹️ might do?
Omgerd i have you threw my car speaker bc i jist walked outta work! Eeeeeee
It's a little more obvious when you decorate the house for the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere sis 😂 *makes house look very christmassy in red, candles, acorns, Yule logs, etc* Everyone entering my home: "what are you doing? Christmas is in 6 months..."
Treat tips!
i leave in a very hot country and when the seasons change it basically dont appear much different characteristics and i feel it would be easier to connect with the seasons if they were more apparent. what do you think?
Hey it's really cool that the last photo you showed on here, from Icktorias.secret (my girlfriend) Is of our christmas ornaments! I was surprised to see that pop up, and she got to see it too, very nice! Thanks!
Heyyyyyyy oliviaaaa
random question: has anyone here heard of sinterklaas?
Are you a new witch. ? And how long have you been practicing I've been practicing for 8 months now so got a lot to learn. I used to love stargirl she was my favor and she was my first watch
Ima yule log my heater lol
where in colorado are you from if you don’t mind me asking? i’m from fort collins!
Hii!!!
I don't like the fruit cakes either. Your making me laugh☺.
Small traditions made with parents are sweet.
I'm not sure if anyone's asked you this before in the past, but as an Australian, would it be weird for me to have things for Yule, despite being the winter solstice, in the summer, since Yule/Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere is in our summer. It gets really confusing for me, because my months are the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere, and everyone's preparing for Yule (or Christmas, depending on who) and, yeah, I'm really confused what to do and I was wondering if you could help?
Ah yes! You can celebrate Beltane or the Summer Solstice! I don't know much about Beltane but I bet if you DMed Mystic Dylan he might have some ideas for you!
I know this question isn’t related to the video that much but can you still have a book of shadows/grimoire if you aren’t Wiccan?
You can! Most practitioners do. It's really just a book to keep everything in, but Wiccans use the term "Book of Shadows", where as I've had practitioners call it whatever they please.
How would i look up the correspondence of ingredients with any blessings i want to put into my baking/cooking? Im new thank you❤
Each ingredient, you can google "magical" or "metaphysical correspondences of _____" and it will come up!
Lucia in Sweden is not the equivalent of winter solstice celebrations, and it's also derrived from when christianity forced itself into the country (Lucia is a christian saint and martyr). The oldest winter solstice celebration in scandinavia is known as Midvinterblot, from the vikings. And before christianity we celebrated Jul, a more pagan-like christmas :-) I celebrate both midvinterblot and jul, as they are not quite the same or on the same date
That kid shaking those lights pissed me off
Hi Ramesh Waghmare from India speech on "kaal sarp"in my life
Lucia isn't connected to the winter solstice, but a lovely tradition non the less. It's Christian and comes from Italy originally, but I'm sure we've changed plenty of it by now. We celebrate jul at the winter solstice, this is a pagan tradition that's been celebrated in similar ways as far back as the viking age.
You don't like fruitcake ? Fruitcakes are so tasty...and when I'm dancing, I look like Chandler Bing from F.R.I.E.N.D.S... :D
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Hey. I have a question. I hit follow on the wounderlust coven but tried to post a pick on the page and it didn't go through. Do they have to follow me back? Were is subscribe? Never done anything like this before on Instagram. I would like to become a member of the coven if you will have me. Thanks. Blessed be
On instagram, you'll just post a photo with the #wonderlustcoven in the caption and it will show in the feed for that hashtag!
Thank you for all of your help! Just posted my first pic on #wonderlust coven :)