Yule Play 2002
This play was done for video. We had a sun and earth, rocking to the season. We had sparklers at the end to draw with in the dark. We had pagan music of the season that went with the play.
Props: candle, tree decorated with talismans, of love, light, etc… To be buried with Yule Tree.
Characters: old women, narrator, children playing the sun and earth or stars dancing round the light.
Begins:
Old women sitting in a cave setting, darkness all around, one candle (her fire) and an evergreen tree in a pot near by her.
Narrator says:
The
solar year is an old crone, snug in her hibernation; darkness is all around.
The Sun and Earth seem to stand still, the breath of nature is suspended, forces
of the nurturing and healing darkness are at work.
The old crone worked all day cleaning out things in her home she no longer
needed or wanted. She then put them aside to give to friends or those who
needed them.
A live potted tree, which will be planted in the earth after Yule, is part of the ritual circle. She honors the Goddess of life by not cutting down a tree.
Going into the depths, the old crone, hand-in-hand with the planet, breathes in the dark and exhales the light: on Yule we change and begin with the exhaling of the following seasons.
Old women says:
Tonight is the Winter Solstice
The night that we celebrate Yule.
Tonight is the longest night of the year
The night when darkness will rule.
She blows out the candle.
But the light will turn this night
Children Chanting:
The Wheel is turning
The
light is returning!
Old women:
Winter is a time of darkness.
But it doesn't last forever.
It is only a stop on the Wheel
And soon the Wheel will turn again
And bring us back to Spring.
This is the lesson the Earth teaches us,
That no matter how dark it gets
The light always returns.
The night will always end
And a new day begin.
Lights candle:
May the light of the Yule candle
Burn in our hearts
All throughout the Winter
And through the coming year.
Everyone say:
Blessings of the Season on us all.