2025 Yule Newsletter
Linda E. Savage, Ph.D. DD is a minister of Spiritual Science and a member of the ESP Lab for nearly 40 years and a member of the board. She is a Licensed Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT certified sex educator who brings the wisdom of her 35 years of experience treating couples and individuals. As the author of Reclaiming Goddess Sexuality, she blends current clinical knowledge and ancient wisdom and has created a companion CD of guided meditations: Maiden, Mother, Wise Woman: Reclaiming Our Sexuality. Dr. Savage is recognized as a leading seminar leader and speaker. She wrote for the Huffington Post as an expert blogger on Spiritual Sex.
Yuletide Blessings to all my wonderful friends,
This newsletter brings my heartfelt wishes for a truly meaningful holiday season and an abundant New Year.
In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21st this is the time of the longest night. The Winter Solstice is universally honored with lights the world over. Our ancestors have burned Yule logs and oil lamps, candles and bonfires and now we string electric lights all around our homes. Many towns and cities decorate giant trees, people gather to share that moment of awe with the first lighting. Originally, these fires and lights represented hope for the return of light in the days to come.
There is much to appreciate about darkness. Indigenous wisdom holds that darkness is simply the other side of light and there is great creative power in the void. Winter is a time when trees let of go of their leaves and seeds go underground, dormant for months until the Spring warmth calls them to uncoil their innate life within. Sprouts begin the arduous journey up through the permaculture to the Earth’s surface where their fragile first leaves continue to unfold with their ancient programming: to grow into their destiny as a flowering plant, a bush, a sapling tree, or a root vegetable. The miracle of life renews again.
Yule is the time when the life force goes within to the dark womb of creative possibility. The leaves of plants and trees have fallen, blanketing the ground with nature’s compost. Nature is our most powerful teacher and this letting go teaches us this necessary lesson. The following quote gives us hope for our times.
“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep…. imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.” May Sarton Journal of a Solitude.
My wish for us all is to tune into our inner Light while letting go and trusting in the dormant creative energy of the dark. Let ritual, prayer, breath-work and meditation become your steadfast daily practices. Enjoy connecting with chosen family as well as your kin. Reach out to loved ones who are far away, yet still in your heart.
Much love and peace to all, Linda
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