Spells, Witchcraft, Magick Spells, and Rituals

Love Spells are commonly considered to be symbolic representations of desired effects and in Wicca in particular are often performed to include some invocation of a deity.

Love spells can also even be unwilling instantaneous and subconcious actions, but with spells in general, and love spells in particular, it is desirable to have some design that follows a general structure:

Yule: The Simple Facts

Of the contested origins of the word Yule, one factually unlikely connection is to the Old Norse hjól, or wheel, to identify the moment when the wheel of the year is at its lowpoint and ready to rise again. Linguists suggest Jól has been inherited by Germanic languages from a pre-Indo-European substrate language and either borrowed into Old English from Old Norse or directly inherited from Proto-Germanic.

A more likely origin for the term Yule can be traced via the Old English/Anglo-Saxon term "Géol", which is strongly connected with the word for yellow - "geol". One may see the evolution of this word for yellow throughout the Germanic and Scandinavian countries: German "gelb", Norwegian "gul", Danish "gul", Gaelic 'geal', Dutch "geel", Swedish "gul", Frisian "giel", even Italian "giallo", Lithuanian "geltonas" and Romanian "galben". The Old English Géol became the Middle English "Yole" and finally modern Yule, whereas the word geol or geolu evolved to become modern yellow. This same gradual divergence of terms also occurred in the other languages mentioned. All of these terms ultimately stem from the Indo-European root "ghel-" meaning "to shine". Since the Yule festival is native to the northern European lands, where midwinter is a time of short days and little light, it is a strong possibility the original sense of Yule as a midwinter festival had much to do with "bringing back the sun" and creating bright, shining, gold or yellow sun- and fire-themed decorations and festivities. Another connection may be to the brightness of the sunlight glaring off the white snow, or simply the bright glare of the sun itself as it rides low on the horizon. Therefore, likely meanings may be "Shining Time", "Bright Time" or "Golden Time".