Dec. 3, 2025

Unveiling The Magic Of Celtic Yule

Unveiling The Magic Of Celtic Yule
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The winter solstice wasn’t just a seasonal shift—it was a mystical crossroad. From evergreen shrines to sun-blessed fires, ancient Celtic Yule carried rituals believed to protect homes, honor nature spirits, and welcome the rebirth of light.
In this episode, we expose the origins of these powerful traditions and how they still shape our holidays today. Is modern “Christmas magic” rooted deeper in ancient mystery than we realize?

🌲 Discover the truth behind Celtic Yule rituals, lore, and mysticism.
🔥 Expose the legends that changed how we celebrate winter.
👇 Join the conversation below & share your Yule traditions!
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Welcome, Well, go well do Para Truth Truth.

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What's up everybody, and welcome to Paratruth Reborn.

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My name is Eric and I'm Justin and you love

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this episode we're about to do. No, that was horrible.

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Why do you do that? Because you'll get a kick

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out of it.

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Oh gosh, I came back on the wrong day. Oh well,

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if you didn't get those sins or hear or read

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the title of this episode that we are talking about

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the Yule. Now, the Yule is one of those ancient

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festivals where myth, nature and human longing intertwine so beautifully

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that it still feels enchanted even today in the modern world.

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So let's chat a little bit about the magic behind Mule.

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And that's just something that you know, justin. You and

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I have been studying the Yule for quite a long

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time now, ever since really starting these shows, and I

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see these shows is obviously we've had so many versions

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of this particular show throughout years, but it's one of

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our favorite conversations and topics in general, I think, especially

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obviously around this time the year.

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Yeah. Well, and you know, I was looking at all

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of this stuff and I'm like, gosh, Christmas has intertwined

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so much of these not beliefs, but practices that come

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with you. I was like, I was dumbfounded because there's

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a lot more to it than I actually realized that's

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that's been put into Christmas. And I was just talking

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to a friend about it and he's like, how do

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you guys know so much about Christmas. I'm like, I've

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been researching it for a long.

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Time, studying Christmas.

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But yeah, and so I love doing this because it

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has a tie to Christmas, of course. And it was

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interesting in our poll how many people responded, and it

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was majority people want to learn about the Mule gods

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and deities. So we'll have to do an episode, separate

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episode on that.

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Yeah, just more focused on them. Yeah, yeah, I mean

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the Mule. I mean it goes pretty deep and stems.

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Into you know, old world culture.

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You know, there's a lot of myths and legends that

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are kind of stored up in it as well, even

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more so than the modern belief system of Christmas and

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idea of Christmas.

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And I don't think Christmas.

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Today is it quite what it was a thousand years ago,

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just as then it wasn't quite as it was three

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thousand years prior. Today is very commercialized, right, So it's

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all about Santa Claus.

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It's all about red.

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And green and Christmas decorations and selling Christmas gifts and

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wrapping paper and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All

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kind of just very surface level when you really consider,

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you know, how much history actually exists. Right for christ

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and of course, you know, you have the Christian holiday obviously,

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and you have a number of other different branches in

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religions that kind of celebrate Christmas in different ways.

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But the Mule is obviously ancient. It's kind of where

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all originated.

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And we still see a lot of the mule now

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even in modern times that a lot of people don't

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recognize it as part of Yule festivals. They annoyingly participate

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in some of those festivities just because it's part of

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the it's part of the whole game nowadays.

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Yeah. Well, and I mean so many holidays can be

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said where it's been overly commercialized. We've talked about Valentine's

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being that way too.

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Oh, almost every time I see Valentine, I want to gag.

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I don't know, I don't like it.

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I don't know why. I never have when you were little,

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like getting the little Valentines from everybody.

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Well, I mean except for when every once in a

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while they would miss me and I'd be the only

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kid in class without a sucker because they ran out.

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So maybe there's some hidden trauma in there somewhere. I

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talk about therapist about it anyway, So let's kind of

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go through.

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The yu'll hear for a bit. We can, we can

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chat on it.

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But the first thing that we're gonna kind of touch

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on is the fact that it's a celebration of the

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reborn sun. Now, long before basically electric lights, there was

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like this or and before the content of like to midnight,

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you know, because the Mule extends basically twelve days and

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goes into the new year, of course to it, but

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the Yule honored the winter solstice, which is the longest

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night of the year. Now to ancient Norse, Germaic dramatic

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and its Celtic people's, this wasn't just an astronomical event.

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It was actually a cosmic moment when the sun was

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basically reborn. It was rising from its weakest point to

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regain strength, and so the Mule heralded hope light returning

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after darkness. And we know we've talked about so many

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times over the years, and even during the summers, we've

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talked about this. How you know, I consider winter the

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dark times, right, That's what I always call it. The

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dark times is because the sun doesn't at least in

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most of the world, it doesn't stay up very long.

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Night basically rules this time of year.

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And so the nice thing about the winter solstice is

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that it's this this switch, the switches turned down, where

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every day after the winter Solstice, the sun stays awake

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a little longer and longer and longer, and the light

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basically starts to conquer the darkness, takes it back over.

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And so we see this celebration in the Mule quite often,

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and it's one of the main events when it celebrated

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the Mule.

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Yeah, and you know, the sun going down at five

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pm really sucks. I'm sure the ancient peoples felt the

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same way. They didn't have the calendar and clocks that

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we do now, so it was it was probably even

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weirder to them because it was and this goes to

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a lot of different things. They used to blame the

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gods for a lot of this stuff. So as I

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was looking at a lot of this, it was it

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was fascinating to me that you'll has this kind of

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death and rebirth that we think of for winter, and

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a lot of people we've talked to over the years

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from different pagan cultures and religions, it's one of those

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that is very significant. And when I was kind of

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researching the gods because of where the pole went, it

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actually goes even into Chinese and Asian culture as well.

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Oh yeah, it extends quite further than I ever thought.

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You know, it's interesting the type of things that you

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learn when you actually take the time to study things.

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Yeah, I should have.

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I should have, you know, realized that back when I

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was in school, but it had an easier time.

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You're you're just now real hey, you know, better late

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than never, right. Well, something that I found fascinating is

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that it's mentioned about fire as life magic. You know, bombfires, candles,

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earth flames. These were not only source of warmth in

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the cold, they symbolize protection from winter spirits, the endurance

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of life and hard times, the rising power of the sun.

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You know. The most famous of this is the Yule

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log was sometimes burned over twelve days, which is kind

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of where we get the twelve days of Christmas is

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from Mule and the Yule Log, each spark a blessing,

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each Ember, a wish. Something that I found that I

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wanted to include in this is the Yule Log rituals.

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The tradition is a large log traditionally oak, placed in

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the hearth and burned for twelve days, like we mentioned,

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from Christmas through the twelfth Night. The ashes were said

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to have protective and fertilizing properties, which I know. Ash

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has fertilizing properties, but it can also kill the so

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too if you don't do it properly. Modern practice, a

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smaller log can be decorated with herbs like cinnamon, pine

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or orange and carved with intentions or wishes before being lit.

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The act of watching it burn symbolizes the hopes for

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the new season coming true. You know, uh, you know.

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Intentions and wishes are kind of those things that we

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have talked about a little bit. Well, we haven't gone

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to in depth in it, but we did do a

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couple of shows and we've talked to a number of

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friends of ours on this subject matter. These intentions and

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wishes are one of those things that there there there

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we can't scientifically prove them right.

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But we all have intentions.

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We all go about our life with intention of something right,

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but in this case, we're talking about intentions of the

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upcoming year.

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What good you want to happen? Hopefully good.

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Hopefully you're not intending something bad because you know, shame

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on you.

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But uh huh, the same with wishes.

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You know, wishes there can probably also be translated to

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prayer in some ways. So wishes and prayers again is

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very similar to intention. And in fact, even in scripture

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when we're told that when we pray, we should belied

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that we received what we were requesting from God already.

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So you're intending and believing in something that doesn't actually

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exist yet.

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Uh.

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And whether or not that's intention, whether or not that's wish,

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you know, it's up to each individual person and their

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particular definition of it. But I always find those things

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very interesting, especially when it comes.

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To carving that into wood.

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And we've talked about intention in the past, about like

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writing an intention on a sheet of paper and burning

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it and letting the ash flow away into wherever it goes,

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you know, in the in the sky or grass. And

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that's yet another version of this much smaller, more controlled verting,

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because you're not burning an entire log, but you're bringing

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this chiece of paper.

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And I like to tell people because.

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There are certain individuals who are like, oh, you can't

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do that switchcraft right, and especially from the Christian culture,

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which understandably so I get it, but also from people

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who aren't found by any sort of religion, people who

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just don't simply understand. And a lot of this you

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have to realize is just symbolic too. It's like cutting

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the thread. When I meditate and I want to release

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something from myself, I will symbolically cut that thing away

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or you know, whether it's with a fake pa you know,

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a pair of scissors, or like an imaginary pair of scissors.

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There's nothing wrong with imagining, letting go of something, or

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putting it out into the world if you will. It's

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very important to use our imagination. Whether you're doing an

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intentionism sort, or you're wishing or you're praying, it's important

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that your imagination. You know where it's hard, and yeah,

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I guess what it's not there, But I can go on,

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you know, I you know, I can just keep on rambling, rambling,

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man over here, that should be my theme song at

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this point. But another thing about the Yule log and

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just also bonfires fires in general. You know, we have

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this idea of protection from winter spirits, and and during

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Halloween we light a fire as well, bonfire to ward

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off evil spirits or dark spirits.

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Right, so here we.

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See another connection with fire and fires often use within

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various cultures as a warning against dark entities or spirits

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or you know, trickster spirits. You know how exactly that

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that that's the case.

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We don't know.

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Obviously, we don't have any scientific evidence as to why

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a spirit might be afraid of fire other than one possibility,

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maybe it's representative of a hell fire, right, so we

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you know, at least in the Christian culture, there is

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a belief that any and all evil spirits will eventually

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and are already bound to Hell. They may not exist

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the rightest moment, but one day the will, and so

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anything that represents the hell fire, the thing's going to

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you know, keep them heated and burning and suffering. They

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want to refrain from. But it's also a very strong

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element in general with the nature. Right, it burns and

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it destroys, but at the same time it creates life.

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So This is something that is very capable of creating harm,

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causing harm, but it's also capable of bringing forth beauty.

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And I think that's another thing is symbolic about fire,

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and it's it's not very controlled, easily controlled substance side substances,

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but elements is not easily controlled element.

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Either.

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You know, you can watch and you can put water

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in a cup and it'll sit there on your table

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and it won't move. Right, you can take a thing

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of dirt and put it on your table and it

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won't move. Air well, you know, you can't see air,

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so I don't know if it's moving or not, but

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it might be.

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I mean moving.

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You see, you can see you can see the wind

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moving right. But fire, you know, you light a candle

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and you'll see it trying its hardest at times to

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jump away from the candle. It flickers, it flops, it

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jumps around. It does not want to be contained, no

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matter how much you know or how small it is.

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And I think that's something that's really just symbolically kind

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of scary. It's something you want to refrain from. Get

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too close to the fire.

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You might get burned.

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Right, That's my pretty typical saying so I think in

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many senses, there is both the physical element of fire

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that is protective, but there's also the symbolic aspect of

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it in terms of its power and automate kind of

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authority when it's released.

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Oh. In many cultures though, too, they talk about the

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dark being afraid of the light. Yes, they could be

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talking about dark entities or something else altogether, but kind

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of the same thing. They're not necessarily that they'll be burned,

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but for whatever reason, afraid of the light. I mean,

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maybe light burns dark entities. I don't know who knows.

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I mean, you know one thing that is like a

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literal factor, and you can test this out yourself, right, it's.

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You get you use a light.

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It could be any light, right, whether it's the sun

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or a flashlight. You know, you point at object in

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the crates of shadow, right as you try to move

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the light around to catch the shadow, that shadow always

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runs from it.

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It refuses to be caught in the light.

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And that's something that you know, it has always been

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like in my mind, in my heart, I think about

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this a lot, is that the shadows always run from

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the light. There is no shadow that can exist within

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the light. You know, it's cast it by the light.

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It's there, but it refused to be touched by it.

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And I just found that really really interesting. I remember,

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way way back, probably thirteen fourteen years ago, it was

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pitch black in my basement. For an example, is telling

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an old friend of mine about she's going through some

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tough times, and I was telling her about how she

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doesn't have to be afraid of the darkness because light

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is always going to overcome the darkness, right, And so

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all I did was light a little, tiny lighter. It

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was little anybody flame, and the entire basement lit up.

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Right.

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Such a little flame can create so much light in

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an extremely dark place. And that's where we also use

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light to surround ourselves. When we're trying to deal with

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dark things or we're going through a difficult time in life,

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we surround ourselves with light because light is that powerful.

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It's a protector. It pushes away the shadows, and it

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allows guidance. I mean, you walk in darkness, you stumble

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and you fall. It's just that simple. A light and light.

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You don't do that unless you're just clumsy.

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But I mean I am me too, so.

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That might just contradict everything. I just said, so light

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doesn't help me. A couple other practices to go over though.

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You mentioned bonfires, So build a bonfire in a safe

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outdoor space to celebrate the longest night and the sun's return.

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If you're like my family, you could go streaking on

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New Year's Eves.

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Good Times offerings. Throw spices, wine, bread, or other offerings

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onto the fire as a gift to the sun to

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encourage its return and bring luck and prosperity. Might be

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where we get the leaving cookies for Santa Claus Good practice.

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Colored flames. I found this fascinating for a more advanced ritual,

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sprinkle specific chemicals onto the fire to create colored flames.

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Not not the colored flames part that I was found fascinating,

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just the fact that you can use that as part

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of the ritual.

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Yeah, it's curious though because there hasn't been there. There

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wasn't much research or discussion on exactly what the colored

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flames are for other than they're pretty.

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Right well, and we've talked about how different colors coincide

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with different things you're trying to wish for or manifest,

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So that's more than likely probably what it goes along with. No,

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I mean that very well. Could be. It could be

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that simple.

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And of course now nowadays they have chemicals that are

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readily available specifically to change the fire various colors. And

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newspaper also, I don't know if you guys know, it

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doesn't happen often, and I don't even know if we

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have newspaper around that much these days actually, because I

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don't see them very often.

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It's more it might be more here compared to other places.

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But I mean, Shelley's got an abundance of newspaper because

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her mom gets the newspaper still, and our ninety two

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year old neighbor gets it as well.

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Yeah, well, if you've ever burned the newspaper, you've probably

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seen that in an occasion, the ink creates a beautiful

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green flame, and so that was one old way that

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we would always try to change the color of flames.

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But nowadays they actually have chemical little packets specifically for

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your bondflyers or your fireplaces that you just throw in there,

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and they work decently. Okay, you know, they're not super

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super super prominent, but you can catch these little tiny

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colored the flames blue pinks, reds, greens and yellows and whatnot.

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You know, so it's pretty cool. You know, they're in.

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They're cheap, They're super cheap. The next thing we want

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to kind of talk about is the Wild Hunt and

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holiday spirits, and this will go a little bit into

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the gods as well, So we won't go too deep

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into that on this episode, but they kind of die

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in here as well.

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As I said.

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Earlier in the show, Mule is steeped in mythic lore

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and one of the most vivid, of course, is the

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Wild Hunt. And we've talked about the Wild Hunt. I

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think we have an episode, I don't think fully on

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the Wild Hunt, but we have an episode on a

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number of different uh myths and lore and the Mule

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that include Wild Hunt. But the Wild Hunt is basically

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a spectral a spectral procession led by Odin or other

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deities depending on the region. On Mule Nights, when the dale,

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when the veil between worlds is thinned. Now, quick little

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connection here, we have then veil on units Jeez, Mule Knights,

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but we also have a then veil back in soloyn

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all right, so we're seeing two times a year that

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we have the bill between world's end. Now, during this time,

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a number of things happen a ancestors were honored, b

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spirits roamed at the earth more freely, and c offerings

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are made to ensure protection and luck. This is the

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older echo, of course, behind today's magical winter nights. And

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again this is very similar to what happens there in

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Halloween as well, at least in the old old days,

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right right, Some of us still kind of celebrate it

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in a similar way, but for the most part they're

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pretty well connected here, which also actually kind of makes

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sense because we fall, we come into winter when the

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veil is thinned, and we leave winter with the veil

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being thinned, so you kind of go full circle before

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walking into spring. Now, there's a number of other entities

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or gods, even if you will, that are celebrated during

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this time, or at least are prominent with a mule.

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One is Odin, as we'd already noticed. And if anyone

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doesn't know who Odin is, he is a Norse all

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father who leads acurse the wild hunt and for it,

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and then Frey and then the Norse god of fertility

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in peace. They all kind of work, not simultaneous or together,

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but they have crossed paths time and time. Again, there's

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also the Holly King, which represents the winter aspect of

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the year, while deities like Saturn Saturnellius I think, God

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of agriculture, and the Germanic goddess Holda, which are also

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associated with winter celebration as well. Then of course we

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have some various other entities that are less God and

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a little more or godlike, I should say, a little

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more monstrous. And of course that is our friendly neighborhood crampis.

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We all need a crampus around some of us do, right.

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It's probably sitting in the old chair during Christmas Eve dinner,

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mumbling about the things that the kids are watching on TV.

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But then also one of my personal favorites, and we've

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talked about this also a lot, and that is I

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believe that I believe.

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His name or her name.

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I think it's a heat but I could be wrong,

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is Joe Lacator, basically the Mule Cat and the Christmas Cat,

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which is one of my favorite stories for Christmas of

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all time, just in terms of legends and lore, because

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this is a giant cat who basically searches around for

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little kids to devour who haven't received or bought themselves

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brand new clothes.

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For the year to come.

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It's kind of wild to think about, right, but it's

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a I've done some research on the yule cat over

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the years, and even more even some just a couple

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of days ago, because again we're talking about this particular

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episode of They Well mule Cat time.

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Let's cool.

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Yeah, I've been let's see about the old cat. But

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you know, the ull cat was one of those legends

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that was born to help push or motivate kids to

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work hard to make a a savings, you know, a

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an allowance so that they can save up and buy

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them some new clothes. Sometimes he's clothing, his clothes would

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be gifted to them, but for the most part, it

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was an idea that these kids would buy the clothes themselves.

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And if they didn't, that means they didn't get the

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time to work, which means they weren't good kids, and

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therefore they'd be devoured by the mule cat. Yeah, if

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you got a cat, you probably know what it's like

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to be biting a scratched by them. I probably don't

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want to be eaten by a jack one. We're not

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talking about like lions and tigers. It's like this seems

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like he proposedly four times the size of those at least.

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Now if I remember right, the Yule cat is tied

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to the Old Lads, Yes, yep, and uh what was

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the what was the giantess?

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Was it a pet of uh uh augres gorilla?

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Grila? Okay, I don't know how how that.

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I can't remember how you pronounce it, but yeah, she

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was an augress gorilla and her sons.

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Were the Euel Lads, so the cat belonged to her.

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Uh. And yeah, there's a happy little family who has

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some interesting stories in their old children, their lower Yeah.

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Yeah, I've always loved those episodes, just especially when we

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first did them, went over all of those creatures or

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entities whatever, because I had never heard of a lot

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of them that we went over. Trying to think of

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any of the others. I know, there's Frau Perkta, which

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had no ties to the Yule Lads or anything like that.

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But yeah, we'll have to go over some of this

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in the Christmas episode. Maybe go over the old gods

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and deities more on our Christmas episode as well. Now,

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you can't have Muele or Christmas without the Evergreen, and

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there is a tie to Evergreen magic that goes along

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with Yule, which again where we get the Christmas tree,

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the Yule lug, Holly ivy pine, missletoe. All of those

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are evergreens, and we're revered as symbols of resilience and vitality.

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They represent an eternal life, natural arth, I'm sorry, Nature's

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promised to return and protection against misfortune. We take it

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for a second, so I can go let my dog in.

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Yeah, go for animals, you know, so he's a protection

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against the misfortunes. This is one of those things that

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constantly I would say condent, but it's one of those

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things that are still very prominent today in modern times.

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Right.

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So, Holly ivy pine, missletoe. We use all of these

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on a regular basis around Christmas, and most people really

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don't even realize their origin story. They just think, oh,

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this is something that's you know, belongs to Christmas time.

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It looks pretty, it works, right, The various evergreens that

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we collected that we put up and put our decorations on,

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these are things that really is remnant of ancient charm,

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and a lot of people just don't realize that, which

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I think is kind of crazy, you know, because you know,

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there's nothing wrong with not realizing or not knowing that

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belongs to an ancient practice, but there's something so much

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more nostalgic about it and much deeper when you realize, like, wow,

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thousands of years ago this was this item was used,

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and we're putting up these Christmas trees because of this reason.

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It just kind of stuck.

472
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And even though the meaning has changed over the years,

473
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:57.880
right nowadays, putting up of Christmas tree very much just

474
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:02.039
about Christmas and celebrating friends and family and having a

475
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:05.400
joyful time. Right at least in terms of the modern

476
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:09.519
commercialized version. Some put up a Christmas tree and representation

477
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:13.559
of Christ's death on the cross, you know, they said,

478
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:15.440
you know, the scriptures say that he was now to

479
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.440
a tree, so you put up the Christmas tree for

480
00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.519
the same reason. But even before that, these trees were used,

481
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:24.920
and these evergrids are used for a number of different reaces,

482
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:28.759
and some of them is right, I can span right now,

483
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:29.400
that's simple.

484
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:30.000
Right.

485
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:35.279
So the first is basically bringing branches and wreaths inside

486
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.519
decorating homes of pine for holly and ivy is actually

487
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:44.440
a tradition that directly honors the magic of evergreens. Probably

488
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.319
never really thought of evergreens being magical, but this kind

489
00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.839
of goes and ties into the idea that there are

490
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:54.559
tree spirits and elementals that work along with these trees

491
00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:59.039
and you can kind of derive magic from them. There is,

492
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.319
of course, also the you've talked about a which is

493
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:06.079
a large log again burned during twelve days of Yule,

494
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.720
which was seen as a source of protection, good fortune,

495
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.480
and light during the longest of nights. Then of course

496
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.279
there's decorating the evergreen tree. Now this is the thing

497
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:18.640
we all want to hear about, because this is what

498
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.119
we still do today. Well, here's its origin story. Maybe

499
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:24.240
when you're decorating a tree, or if you're looking at

500
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.000
it right now, you probably un like me, you've had

501
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:28.720
your tree up already. You're probably looking at it at

502
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:32.839
this very moment. So now you did to learn why, right, So,

503
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.880
in ancient times, trees were decorated with offerings like fruits, nuts,

504
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:42.000
and food to entice the spirits, which later evolved into

505
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:46.839
modern tree decorations that represent things like prosperity, protection, and

506
00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:47.920
the returning sun.

507
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:51.319
So all those things that you.

508
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:54.079
Have on your tree right now are just a transformation

509
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:58.680
of what once was into what currently is. But in

510
00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:01.319
many ways it's still the right because some of us

511
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:08.759
have ornaments of pictures a friend's family, We have little

512
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.680
art things that maybe your kids did or maybe that

513
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.160
you did when you were a kid, right, And these

514
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:21.200
are all things that kind of the decorations that kind

515
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.079
of like show this prosperity of life, right, the richness

516
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:28.119
of life and the things that you've enjoyed and the

517
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:32.319
people in your life that you celebrate. Then we have

518
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:35.640
candles and lights now, placing lights on trees and around

519
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.279
the home represented the sun's light again, boarding off darkness

520
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:41.240
and bringing hope.

521
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:42.960
Light is very powerful.

522
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.000
It's been used for pretty much ever when it comes

523
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:51.279
to uh, pushing by the darkness. And then of course

524
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:54.400
we have specific plants such as the famous muscle toe,

525
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:57.799
which was and still is used in traditions like kissing

526
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.359
under it, linking it to fristility and love. And so

527
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.279
holly was believed to protect against completely just through me

528
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.440
because I didn't read this until it is now. It

529
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:10.680
protects against lightning strikes. I don't know what that has

530
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.960
to do with, you know, kissing or fertility and love.

531
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:18.599
But then again, maybe they had a lot of lightning

532
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.880
storms in winter.

533
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.519
I mean, I will say there is something special about

534
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:25.960
a lightning storm and the dead of winter, especially when

535
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.079
it's snowing, because the lightning is usually green in the winter,

536
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.400
at least here in Ohio it is. If you haven't

537
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:35.960
seen green lightning, it's pretty dope.

538
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:40.559
I don't know if I ever have or haven't one day.

539
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.720
You all we're missen out.

540
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.319
I don't think you are, but it's it's cool, it's interesting.

541
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:52.759
It's definitely different. I mean, I've seen it flash different colors,

542
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.680
but I don't know, I mean maybe green. Maybe I

543
00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.880
just wasn't paying that much attention either, But.

544
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:05.960
Yeah, so the evergreen magic. Pretty fascinating stuff. And again

545
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:14.119
stuff that we we celebrate Christmas with today that you

546
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:18.440
would never even think about because you're not really taught

547
00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:23.199
the mule side anymore. It's just Christmas or if you're Jewish,

548
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:30.320
Hanukkah and you know all that stuff do. But the

549
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:36.320
fascinating thing that I loved, just because we do this

550
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:41.960
to this day, is feasting as a sacred ritual. And

551
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.840
we've done this by we, I mean Eric and I.

552
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:50.719
Our family has always gotten together for Christmas or Thanksgiving

553
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:57.880
to feast on Christmas, and it was always a huge spread.

554
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:05.119
In a season of scarcity, people gathered to share feast

555
00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:11.159
and strengthen community bonds. Uh. Food and drink were blessings exchanged,

556
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:17.559
not just consumed. Yule feasts reaffirmed gratitude for what survived

557
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:22.280
the year, hope for the year to come. The importance

558
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:28.119
of kinship, the sacred hospitality is the ancestor of today's

559
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:29.800
holiday dinners.

560
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.039
Yeah, I mean it's this goes even back to the

561
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.960
last dinner, the last supper with the disciples in Christ. Right,

562
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.199
food was it just you know, unlike you and I

563
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.199
who probably sit in front of our TVs eating like

564
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.639
I literally just ate a bowl not long ago, a

565
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:53.239
bowl of chili mac basically two quinifiest servings and then

566
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:56.719
half a bag of downuts in front of my TV. Okay,

567
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:02.199
I got my high metabolism, all right, But that is

568
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:04.639
not what this is. This is not that is not

569
00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:06.400
feasting as a rich shake or ritual.

570
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:14.079
That is just that's gorgeing gluttony. That's that's it. Because

571
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.079
you weren't trading it with anybody, but you.

572
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.320
Are sharing no no being he was interested as it

573
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:28.519
uh uh nopem. But no, but yeah, like obviously the

574
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:31.280
sake of ritual. I think I think that's a word

575
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:37.119
that is maybe a little too I don't know what

576
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:38.639
what I'm thinking about it. I think it's a little

577
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.239
too much here, you know, because because it's the idea

578
00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:44.000
is really just sitting down and celebrating the holidays with

579
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.639
friends and family and people close to you, sharing food,

580
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:51.960
doing a pot luck, having a meal and converseme having fun. Right,

581
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.800
it's the importance, like you said at Kinship, and the

582
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:57.199
hope for the year to come. You hope that you

583
00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.320
have your family still there, the fun on Christmas and

584
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:02.880
your friends than Christmas, And of course there's gratitude. I mean,

585
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.760
how many of us get to Christmas and think like, man,

586
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:06.280
I can't believe this already a bit of year since

587
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.760
last Christmas, And we think about that year and yes,

588
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:11.840
there has been a lot of hard times for most

589
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:14.639
of us, but there's also been plenty of good in

590
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.320
there somewhere, no matter.

591
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:20.239
How great or small. So we do look back.

592
00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.280
On the year and think, oh, this happened, and that happened.

593
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.920
This is pretty cool, while also remembering and realizing, yues,

594
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:29.079
this also happened, and that was very hurtful, but you

595
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:32.960
can also hopefully take this opportunity this Christmas to see

596
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.079
the growth that you've made since those difficult times and

597
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:38.440
what as soon as in your life, that's the best

598
00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:41.239
way to continue this whole idea of the sacred ritual.

599
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:48.920
I'd think, yeah, for sure. And you know, I think

600
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.480
that's what you was kind of really about, is counting

601
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:56.599
your blessings, not the tortuous parts of the year, just

602
00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:01.960
your blessings. And I mean Christmas should be that way,

603
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:09.239
but we really get caught up in, as you've already mentioned,

604
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:14.880
the commercialism of it, all right. The funny thing about

605
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:20.639
that is we we just had Black Friday literally a

606
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:26.960
couple of days ago, and Shelley and I were talking about,

607
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.320
you know, sales and this and that. I'm like, I

608
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.840
will never, ever, ever, at least on Thanksgiving night, take

609
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:39.400
part in a Black Friday sale ever Again. I've done

610
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:41.440
it three times in my life, and every time it's

611
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:45.760
like people are almost murdering each other to get these deals.

612
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.320
Some people literally do murder each other for them.

613
00:38:50.360 --> 00:39:01.039
All yeah, razy, Yeah, that's wild. You want me to

614
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:02.719
take this next one? Yeah? All right?

615
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:06.199
So the next one is the twelve Nights of mystery

616
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:07.159
and magic.

617
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:11.360
All right, that sounds all kind of cool.

618
00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:17.039
I guess it's the multi day Uile period here. So

619
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.000
this is also twelve nights and again this is where

620
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:21.239
we get the whole idea of the twelve Days Christmas.

621
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:24.599
But during this time it was seen as a time

622
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:29.079
outside ordinary time, a hinge in the year, when magic

623
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:34.000
was more potent, dreams more prophetic, and rituals more meaningful.

624
00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:40.079
It was basically a pause, a breath, in a cosmic reset.

625
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.000
Now I could try to dive into this little deeper,

626
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.159
but to be honest with you, that right there is

627
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.480
the gist of it when it comes to the twelve

628
00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:52.000
Nights of Mystery and Magic. And so instead what I

629
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.079
want to do is kind of help either help us

630
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:57.960
all understand what exactly this was, or how we can

631
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:05.239
continue this kind of practice even today. There is the opportunity,

632
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.400
and it doesn't have to be any given particular week, right,

633
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:11.880
it could be any twelve day period, ideally in a row,

634
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:16.039
where you take the time to sit, to pause, to breathe,

635
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:21.320
to consider choices that you've made and how those choices

636
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.320
have ely been bad, and what choices you can make

637
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.719
to fix or to you know, increase whatever good things

638
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:33.719
that happen. Right, But it's also a time where you

639
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:37.360
can meditate. You can stay meditate into twelve days of meditation,

640
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.840
twelve days of prayer, twelve days of fasting, twelve days

641
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.519
of just simply sitting and being.

642
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:45.039
Right.

643
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:48.880
We're so focused on what's the next Christmas movie? Let's

644
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.639
watch the next thing on a Hallmark channel?

645
00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:50.960
Right?

646
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:54.760
Yeah, I know some of y'all watching those Homemark VIDs.

647
00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:59.840
I'm not one of them, but I wouldn't not yet

648
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:02.000
might force me. I've worked one Hallmark.

649
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:03.199
Movies Christmas Hallmark movies.

650
00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:06.039
But know I was gonna say, I you have to

651
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:07.400
watch them, but I have watched blunty.

652
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:13.000
I mean you know me. I love the scary uh

653
00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:21.440
Christmas movies outside of of course a Christmas story and Elf.

654
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:28.840
We've gotten onto Elf over the past several years. But yeah,

655
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:34.679
I I would rather gouge my eyes out than watch

656
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:41.639
the Hallmark movie. Oh you're so sad. No, I just

657
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:49.920
want to pause, free and taken a cosmic reset.

658
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.719
So when it comes to doing this, everything, when it

659
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:57.519
comes to meditating, comes to pausing and breathing.

660
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.239
When it was a praying during it if.

661
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.400
You want to do your own little twelve day thing, right,

662
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:04.880
your own little Yule period, well the day Yule period,

663
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:09.440
mind you, this often happens often like twelve nights, so

664
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:12.280
this isn't literally a full day, and in modern time,

665
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:13.800
that doesn't even have to be a full night.

666
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:14.119
Right.

667
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.199
You can do an hour, you can do forty five minutes,

668
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.079
thirty minutes, fifteen by whatever you want, whatever is good

669
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.800
for you. You can take the time to sit down,

670
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.320
turn off the TV, turn on your Christmas lights in

671
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:30.960
your home, light some candles, and just take the little

672
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.400
bit of time to yourself to relax, right, to rest,

673
00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:39.039
to breathe, to release all the tension that is on

674
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:41.960
us during the holiday seasons. Because I don't know about

675
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.800
you guys, but there are a lot of gifts I'm

676
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.079
thinking about and I'm like, well, how's this gonna.

677
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:46.599
Hurt my wallet?

678
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.320
That is like a literal problem for a lot of people.

679
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:55.280
But it's not always about the gifts. It's not always

680
00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:57.199
about how much money we can spend on somebody. It's

681
00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:02.719
about taking the time to remember basic cliche, but the

682
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:06.639
reason for the season. It's the truth, though. I mean,

683
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:09.119
it's a good time to remember that you're alive and

684
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:12.599
that we are here together working through it. And there's

685
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.239
a lot to be to really honor I think in

686
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:20.679
this time, you know, and it's not just Jesus, and

687
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:24.159
it's not just your friends and family. It's the things

688
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.400
about yourself that we maybe don't always consistently think about.

689
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.960
You know, We're pulling so many directions.

690
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.199
Throughout life that I think a lot of us give

691
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.639
up on certain things about ourselves. And I'm very much

692
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:38.639
one of those people. I tend to forget to take

693
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:42.639
care of myself first while I'm you know, stumbling over

694
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:46.519
a number of different anxiety thoughts or intrusive thoughts and whatnot.

695
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:49.360
So it's important if you guys don't do this, I

696
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.000
think you should. I think it'd be very helpful. And

697
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:55.079
if you do, have a little tall night mystery and

698
00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.280
magic time to yourself. Oh that sounded really really kind

699
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.119
of dirty, erase that you raise what.

700
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:05.000
I just said, can't it's out in the either hand,

701
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:10.480
that was so bad. Like I said, interesse of thoughts.

702
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:12.760
I've got a lot of intessive thoughts of.

703
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:18.480
Point made. Anyway, if you guys do decide to have

704
00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:21.079
like a little multiday Yule period, you should let us

705
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.719
know either what you're doing when you're doing it, and

706
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:25.880
maybe we can even do a little thing together as

707
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:28.519
like a little group. I think they'd be kind of

708
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:30.800
cool if we can all have like, I don't know,

709
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.599
fifteen minute period in which we all meditate on ourselves

710
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:38.320
and just on life, right, and then we can chat

711
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:38.639
about it.

712
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:41.800
I think it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah, And

713
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:50.039
whether it's just getting getting into a chat or like

714
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:54.519
we've got the Facebook group now and just do a

715
00:44:54.559 --> 00:45:00.480
small live session and do that that that'd be kind

716
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:09.079
of cool. A. So we got this comment that says,

717
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.519
if you can find it someone us shaving cream or

718
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:16.599
something for snow in a Hallmark Christmas movie. I believe

719
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:23.880
it all right. So what is the heart of youle

720
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.519
At its core, Yule is about light returning after darkness,

721
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:37.440
community warming against winter, nature's quiet power, reverence for ancestors

722
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:41.800
and unseen forces, which can be said about a lot

723
00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:49.199
of different practices, the resilience of life. It's a celebration

724
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:54.119
that whispers, even in the deepest dark, light is preparing

725
00:45:54.159 --> 00:46:00.000
to rise again. And that is probably the most powerful

726
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:05.679
phrase I've ever heard, because all of us get into

727
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:11.280
these deep dark parts of our lives, and many of

728
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:16.920
us end up losing our lives because of that, because

729
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.800
they can't see the light. So one thing that I

730
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:26.400
really will really want to press this year on our

731
00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:30.519
holiday episodes is if you are depressed during this time

732
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:36.239
of year, know that there is a place to reach out.

733
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.239
I believe the suicide hotline is nine to eighty eight.

734
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.440
You can reach out to us here at Paratruth if

735
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.599
you have something going through your head or you need uplifting,

736
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:55.800
we will absolutely talk to you. Just make sure that

737
00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:00.880
you're reaching out and not letting those inner demons win.

738
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:04.639
Right, And I'll add to that, if you are going

739
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:08.320
through a dark time, you know this this phrase is

740
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.440
it like, it's just it's very powerful, right, I want

741
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:12.719
to say it again. Even in the deepest dark, light

742
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:17.280
is preparing to rise again. But there is something else.

743
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:21.039
There's always a whisper of light, even in the darkest

744
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:23.920
of night. Right, you look up and you see the stars,

745
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:26.559
there's light chatting. You look up, you see the moon.

746
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:29.760
It's reflection of that sun that is soon to rise again.

747
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:33.440
So even when you're going through a dark time, take

748
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:37.000
the opportunity to seek out those little lights that do

749
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:40.079
exist in your life, because I guarantee that there, but

750
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.239
the darkness is overpowering it. It's trying to keep it

751
00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:48.079
at bay, subside it, push it away from you. Don't

752
00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:50.840
allow it. You're going through a dark time. Look for

753
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.840
those little lights that are whispering saying, hey, I'm here,

754
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:57.480
and it's only a matter of time before you as

755
00:47:57.559 --> 00:47:57.960
it's again.

756
00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:03.920
Right, So, really, I don't know thoughts justin what are

757
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:05.960
you thinking? Man? Like, how do you I mean, we.

758
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:11.760
Studied this a lot over the years, the Mule, and

759
00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:13.400
I mean, honestly, this is one of those topics that

760
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:16.440
never gets old to me. I always enjoy going back

761
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.760
into it and greeting some of these, especially some of

762
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:20.679
the legends and the Lord, which I know we're going

763
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:22.840
to get into later this month as well.

764
00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:29.760
But what do you think stands out the most to

765
00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:37.199
you in terms of the celebration of Mule, Just the

766
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:43.840
celebration that although that we are in a dark time

767
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.719
of the year, I should say dark time of the year,

768
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:53.920
not in dark times. I mean we're in dark times, dude,

769
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:58.519
I mean at least in America. But just like Mule,

770
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:03.559
the light will come and bring life and vitality back,

771
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.920
and eventually the same will come to the current situation.

772
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:20.320
But that I've always loved that expression or mentality that

773
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:27.360
you don't have to get down. It's just a part

774
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:33.159
that's the cycle of life, really, And just seeing a

775
00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:38.599
lot of the practices that we celebrate today, which I

776
00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:40.119
already knew, of course.

777
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:40.000
But.

778
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.760
Just to see it in black and white and to

779
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:51.760
understand that a lot of this came from times well

780
00:49:51.760 --> 00:50:00.719
before christ and Christmas and the celebration that we do today.

781
00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:05.239
Your final thoughts.

782
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.480
I think it's just very interesting how much of the

783
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:18.920
mule is kind of a repetition of saloyn in a way.

784
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:23.440
There's a lot of cross links between the two. And

785
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:26.400
I think it's really cool that we begin this season

786
00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:30.159
with a thin veil and we ended the season on

787
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:30.920
a thin veil.

788
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:35.000
It's like it separates winter.

789
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:40.360
It makes winter its own special and unique season because

790
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.360
of that, because we have spring, summer, and fall three

791
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.400
seasons together, and then all of a sudden, there's winter

792
00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.480
separated by the thinning of a veil.

793
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.079
And I just find that really intriguing. Now.

794
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.679
Winter is definitely one of those times a year where

795
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.119
I always tend to positive reflect I love.

796
00:50:58.199 --> 00:50:59.280
I have a love hate.

797
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:02.400
Relationship with winter, to be honest, I hate being out

798
00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:06.119
in the winter, right in the cold, freezing whatever. But

799
00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:08.199
when I'm inside, I have a cup of coffee, I'm

800
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.800
reading a book and it's snowing outside. Like, there is

801
00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:15.039
very little things that I find more desirable and pleasant

802
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:18.599
than that. Like it's just relaxing, it's it just helps

803
00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:23.960
to release some of the stress. And it's a reminder

804
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:26.719
that in the quietest times, and I do think winter

805
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:29.880
is one of the quietest, is the quietest season, like

806
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.840
both literal and figurative in the sense that a lot

807
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:37.599
of the animals they're hibernating or they've gone south right,

808
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:40.920
But also the snow it literally is.

809
00:51:41.320 --> 00:51:48.519
A uh what do you tholl? It like a the

810
00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:49.840
snow like mute sound.

811
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:51.800
I can't think of the name of there's a name

812
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:52.159
for it.

813
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.320
Oh, I have no idea.

814
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:56.280
It's the same thing you put up well, it's the

815
00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:57.880
same thing that like you would put up for for

816
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.480
absorb sounded, oh, natural sound observer.

817
00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:04.239
And so when you.

818
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:08.719
Step outside in snow, everything is extra silent, every little

819
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:11.239
honk of the horns and every car that does buy

820
00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:12.400
all the birds.

821
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:13.960
They don't echo like they nomber they would.

822
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:18.320
It just gets zeut right, pulled right into the snow,

823
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:20.679
and there's something so peaceful about it.

824
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:24.920
And I find that so intriguing, and how the Yule

825
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:26.559
kind of celebrate these separate things.

826
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:30.599
It's again the moment to rest and reflect and to

827
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:36.760
really consider this idea of a cosmic reset. It's like, okay,

828
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:39.360
at the end of the winter, once Christmas rolls through,

829
00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:41.920
once New Year's rolls, thu boom, we're onto a new year.

830
00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:46.000
It starts all over the reset, right, And I think

831
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:51.760
it's important to take winter mule and use that to

832
00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:57.199
your advantage. You can call it in yours resolution. I

833
00:52:57.239 --> 00:52:59.039
don't necessarily like to use that word because I think

834
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:03.280
resolutions are given up really quick. But you can definitely

835
00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:07.199
make some changes and look forward to some pretty cool

836
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:12.239
times in the year to come, right. But yeah, I

837
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.199
think that's just the most interesting thing about the your

838
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:16.360
It's just a celebration.

839
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:19.719
Is something that's so honestly, Winter, in.

840
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.719
My opinion, is one of the most poetic seasons of all,

841
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:26.320
Like in and of itself, it's a poet but the

842
00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:30.639
way everything moves away the season changes, the way we

843
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:33.760
see death in life at the same time is pretty wild.

844
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:40.400
That's pretty deep bro feeling. Indeed, tonight, I don't know,

845
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:45.000
you know. I just speak what comes in my mind.

846
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.039
And sometimes it's good.

847
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:52.559
Times it's really bad. Yes that's true. I mean same.

848
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:59.159
But I hope you guys have enjoyed this episode. We

849
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:04.280
hope that you will like Share of Subscribe no matter

850
00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:08.440
where you listen, make sure you check out next week

851
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:11.719
where we will be having on Patty Nagree to talk

852
00:54:11.719 --> 00:54:15.719
about our book, Dollcraft. I thought it was rather appropriate

853
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:18.440
to have that on scene as we are getting close

854
00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:21.800
to the Christmas season where everybody's going to be getting dolls.

855
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:28.599
But until next week, where you'll find us same time,

856
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:31.360
the same channel. My name is Justin.

857
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:32.199
And I'm Eric.

858
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:33.159
He's