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Hello Empaths and we wish you all happy holidays and if you're celebrating today a very very Merry

Christmas. We thought it would be fun today since it is such a lively holiday

season with lots of people celebrating different things this month to talk about

some unusual festivities and traditions and superstitions around the holidays and some fun traditions.

Do you want to start us off, Denise? I would and this is very traditional one and I love that we're just kind of having a fun show for this.

It's a relaxing time. I hope everyone's having peaceful time with their family and loved ones and if not you have a community with us.

We all have each other so I think we need to keep that in mind as well. This isn't always the easiest time a year for folks, but please know that you're in our hearts.

Everyone's real familiar with a Yule log, and you know the present day custom of having a Yule log at Christmas or or the Holiday time, but it started as a winter solstice

festival in Scandinavia when fires were lit for the heat

and light of the life-giving sun.

And we're also, as we're recording this,

we're coming up very close to the winter solstice,

which is a time of the light starting to come back,

which those of us in New England are very, very excited about.

And it was burned, this Ullog was burned on the hearth in order of the Scandinavian

God Thor, and it was never allowed to burn out completely and was kept as a

token of good luck and you know then they would use the kindling to start the

following years log in some other European countries the U log was burned

until nothing but the ashes were left and they were collected and spread into the

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