O almighty sun

who glimmers the seas

and silvers the moon

you who globe us in arms of light

and who feed the trees who breathe life into our lungs

hear us, your celebrants,

while you clothe yourself in dark and dream the shadow.

Hear our song.

We remember you:

the blonde fields of fruits and flowers

let our heartbeat into your dream

come with us through the curtain of the longest night

to regain your summer once again.

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Cascadian Yule has gathered the solar devout to our halls for the past two decades, to honor the dark and call forth the light. This year we assemble again in the seclusion of our beloved Millersylvania, where we will don our finery, feast upon the season’s harvest, and dance beyond exhaustion, all in honor of that great lifegiver who reigns from high on his throne of dark, the Sun. If you feel in your depths the hollowness of this age; if you hear in the long quiet of the restless nights the faint whispering of your restive ancestors calling you to something greater; join us on this Sabbath of the great Star and pull from beneath your cloak that most guarded of luminous coals: burn your open heart on our altar of the Possible.

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If never again comes a winter for you to forgive and to praise; if glory be behind you and only ahead descent into that same horizon to which the Star finds himself thrust after each zenith waxing; come give everything you are to that tremendous echo, which was once a voice, from a throat whose body was beyond our ken, singing a selfalive earthscore which rose the stars and made men sprout leaves and animals howl up the sun: that echo be our hall, faint as feathers— come rouse the sun to burn for another round in the blue wheel of the sky.

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CASCADIAN YULE

MMXXVI

December 18th and 19th

Millersylvania State Park Retreat Center

12245 Tilley Rd SW, Olympia, WA 98512