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Dec. 20th, 2011 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, tonight is Mothernight, the night before the first day of Yule*. I haven't even decorated my altar yet. Usually, I have plans for Yule. This year, I have nothing.
I feel a bit frazzled about it, honestly. I've been working more than usual, covering for a coworker, and while it's great to be getting more hours, it's a little stressful. Yule is kind of a Big Deal for me, and I feel guilty that I haven't done more to prepare for it, which is making me more stressed.
Which in itself, gives me a plan for Yule. We set aside our spinning for Yule (hail Holda), we are done with our work for the year. That's been stressing me a little too, because I've become even more of a compulsive knitter/crocheter this year than I ever was before. I usually put aside my yarncraft over Yule but yarncraft in itself has become a way of destressing. So instead of putting that aside, this year for Yule, I will celebrate by giving myself permission to be quiet and calm, by putting the stress of the season aside. Yule is a time for rest and renewal, after all.
There. Now that's done.
*Yes, the solstice moves around, but I like to start Yule on the 21st, so that the 12 days of it mesh neatly with the calendar and end on the 1st of January.
I feel a bit frazzled about it, honestly. I've been working more than usual, covering for a coworker, and while it's great to be getting more hours, it's a little stressful. Yule is kind of a Big Deal for me, and I feel guilty that I haven't done more to prepare for it, which is making me more stressed.
Which in itself, gives me a plan for Yule. We set aside our spinning for Yule (hail Holda), we are done with our work for the year. That's been stressing me a little too, because I've become even more of a compulsive knitter/crocheter this year than I ever was before. I usually put aside my yarncraft over Yule but yarncraft in itself has become a way of destressing. So instead of putting that aside, this year for Yule, I will celebrate by giving myself permission to be quiet and calm, by putting the stress of the season aside. Yule is a time for rest and renewal, after all.
There. Now that's done.
*Yes, the solstice moves around, but I like to start Yule on the 21st, so that the 12 days of it mesh neatly with the calendar and end on the 1st of January.
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Date: 2011-12-21 06:00 pm (UTC)The amusing dramatic irony here is that one of my lovely Yule gifts from a friend is some new roving to spin, and so yesterday, I kinda realised the irony in finishing making a new drop spindle to use to spin it.
On the other hand, I may decide that I can go on with that spinning, because, as you said, Yule is for rest, for renewal, and spinning is restful for me.