This week we enter the magical time of Yule, celebrating the Winter Solstice, which occurs on December 21 at 15:03 (UTC-0). This period is not only filled with wonder and magic — it also lays the foundation for the entire year ahead.

It is a time to clear the path toward your goals, settle debts with the past, and fill your space with kindness and light. This is the moment when we open the doors to the future, infusing it with our most cherished wishes and hopes — a point of balance between what has already been and what is yet to come.

🌙 This year Yule is especially powerful: the lunar cycle follows the solar one precisely, amplifying its influence many times over. The first night of Yuletide, the longest night of the year — Mother Night — coincides with the darkest New Moon of the year. Thus, this Birth of the Sun is also the Birth of the Moon.

The radiance of these two luminaries sheds light on strange and half-forgotten situations. If a question has been troubling you for a long time, a gift from the universe may arrive in the form of information that allows you to draw conclusions and decide what to begin writing on the clean page of a new life.

As lingering processes from the past come to completion, it is important not to lose control of the future currents now taking shape — to become the guardian of your own beginnings, breathing sincere faith and persistence into them. This is the time to release worries and anxieties and fully focus on this transition, which fills us with new opportunities and a sense of strength and resources.

🌹 Inner changes conceived during this time also spark changes in how we interact with the outer world — with society and with the people around us. Just as the Sun God is reborn in these days, so must we be ready to step through new doors in our lives that are now opening wide before us.

This week forms the energy to act and to manifest our desires and dreams in the external world. With the coming year in mind, we weave the patterns of our lives, connecting scattered pieces of our existence into a single whole.

And if everyday hustle refuses to let go and makes it difficult to tune into the energies of Yule, try a simple attunement to unity with the world. Fire helps us with this — candles and lights illuminating our path into the future, which we light both in anticipation of the festival and throughout the Yuletide itself.

Listen to the creak of the Wheel as it turns now. We hear its sound at every celebration throughout the Year, but how resonant it is today! Imagine a great Wheel — adorned with ribbons and bells. Hear the ringing of the bells, the creaking of the Wheel itself, the whisper of snow caught in its spokes. The turning of Yule is not only a turn toward a new season, but toward an entire New Year — the coming Year.

© Elena Shuwany