The Yule Log Menorah

I was recently reading about Yule in a book called The Provenance Press's Guide to the Wiccan Year by Judy Ann Nock. Ms. Nock suggested that one spiritual practice for the Yule season is to bring a yule log into your home, cut eight holes in the top, and place candles in the holes. She wrote that one should let the candles burn all the way down.

Sound familiar? It's a menorah!

I did a quick search on yule logs online, only to find that most earth-based practices suggest using three candles instead of eight. So I'm not sure why Ms. Nock prefers eight candles, but it made me think that there should be such a thing as a yule log menorah. Why not? Hanukkah is a festival to celebrate bringing light into a dark world (as well as some supposed miracle that happened to the Maccabees), and Yule is a pagan festival to also celebrate/encourage the return of light during our darkest time of the year.

So maybe someday I'll make my own yule log menorah and market it to secular and/or earthy Jews.


Blessed be.