Discuss The History Of Yule Live

Do you know the History of Yule? Learn all about it at 11PM EST Dec. 9th, 2015.

Many cultures have winter festivals that are in fact celebrations of light. In addition to Christmas, there's Hanukkah with its brightly lit menorahs, Kwanzaa candles, and anumber of other holidays. The Pagan holiday called Yule takes place on the day of the winter solstice, around December 21 in the northern hemisphere (below the equator, the winter solstice falls around June 21).

On that day an amazing thing happens in the sky. The earth's axis tilts away from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sun reaches at its greatest distance from the equatorial plane. As a festival of the Sun, the most important part of any Yule celebration is light -- candles, bonfires, and more.

Feel free to call in and join the conversation and share how you celebrate Yule or if you celebrate something different. So many of us celebrate with different traditions.