The Bind-ring of Twaynes

The Wykumbol-- the ecology symbol or ecologo-- is a wide oval whose ends are joined by a horizontal line.  The line divides the oval into identical halves suggesting higher and lower parts of a whole.  Among the pairs (twains) suggested by this are:

the Sky(-dragon) and the Earth(-dragon).
the Spirit and the Soul.
the conscious Ego-mind and the Unconscious mind.
the Civilized and the Primitive.
the Will and the Instincts.

The Wykumbol can be considered as a bind-ring that forms a whole of these opposites, as well as an interrelated whole of all the pairs of opposites.  The Wykumbol also symbolizes the Drygand's Lode-Stone and of course the Wyke (Biosphere) itself, and the Wyke-sake (Ecology movement).

Wykumbol= Wyke(dwelling> Biosphere) +Kumbol (sign, symbol, banner).
Sake= a cause, movement.

Dragon-Meld

The Winged Dragon flies to the Heights, and the Chthonic Dragon burrows to the Depths.  If they meld into one, you have a shamanic traveller over the gamut of the tiered Cosmos of the Psyche: the Drygand.  At the height of the Psyche is the most modern mode of ego-consciousness: the ecological.  In the depth you have the primordial Unconscious, the preserve of the survival instincts, which express consciously as evolved archetypal forms.  In Jungian psychology, the crisis of modern man derives from the dualist divorce of our 'civilized' ego-consciousness and the archaic Unconscious.  'Ecology', as a revival of monist synthesis and unity in cultural compensation for dualist analysis and differentiation, has provided us with a way to extract ourselves from the modern dilemma.  By 'Ecology', I mean a broad definition that includes the rational analytic science of ecology, as well as the monist synthetic cultural and Nature-preservationist movement of Deep Ecology.  And the means to apply the natural laws of Ecology so as to reunite the ego and Unconscious, and Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in harmony is through a kind of open shamanic experiencing of the tiers of the psychic cosmos as an integral self-regulating system which establishes an equilibrium-seeking free flux of all elements in the psyche-engaged-with-the-real-world.  And this is one aspect of what the archetypal Drygand represents, as a guiding model for Mennings, a sort of shamanic Ally to aid ego and Unconscious, Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in melding into a self-regulating system that can be characterized as ecological and that acts ecologically.

chthonic= subterranean, underworldly. pronounced 'kthonic'.
Mennings= people of the Menning, the ecological culture-civilization.

The Wyrd We Make

The implacable fact of human-made planetary ecocide necessitates a new transhuman ecological imperative, moral and spiritual, which takes precedence over culture-specific mores.  This is our Wyrd.  This is the Wyrd we must make.  For Life on Earth to go on, we must make it so, in our psyches and in the real world.  We must act for all Life, for its fate is our own.  If we do not do this, it will not happen.  We must evolve, and quickly, or die.  We must summon our deepest resources, the powerful archetypes of survival deep in our brain-minds, to help us work these changes, to create a transhuman ecological Self and an ecologically-manifesting culture-civilization, as the necessary means to saving Life on Earth.  We must make this Wyrd so.

NearSun Day

On NearSun Day, GreneSun wanders oer the lands and waters, and a fore-sight of Neorxnalder yet to come glows green and warm through the frosted waste of Winter-tide, bearing Drygand tofore.

Drygand sheds his blaze of grene-fyre light abroad, rousing the Drygs of the lands and waters to shed each their Sidden nearabout, to all the wyrts and wights that rest in winter sleep, a pledge of green times coming.

And the Drylar who from time unknown range the scapes to ward the wilds, they stand and hail the thrymm and thryth of Feorgen thus shown in the light of GreneSun and the might of Drygand on this NearSun Day, when the Sun comes close.

NearSun Day= Perihelion, when the Earth in its orbit is closest to the Sun. January 4th this year.
GreneSun= the sun of the Otherworld.
Neorxnalder= Neorxna-Alder: the 'Ever-green Age' of Edhlifrith ('Nature-peace').
Drygand= the ecological shaman-warrior god, son of Feorgen(Nature-mind).
Drygs= guardian-spirits who dwell-in-place in the lands and waters.
Sidden= magical influence.
Wyrts and Wights= flora and fauna.
Drylar= trollish ranger-wardens of the Wilderness.
Thrymm and Thryth(OEng.)= majesty, glory, splendor.

"Summer-in-Winter"

The upwending of the Sun with the start of Yule marks a new turning of the Sun-wheel as the new year is born, for Yule Day is New Year's Day.

And the tide from the Yule-turning unto NearSun Day (Perihelion: Jan 4, 2014; 6:59 AM EST) is called Summer-in-Winter, for the Sun ever-rising in the sky pulls GreneSun up from its winter-home in the evergreen Otherworld and it blazes as "Light-at-Night, when the Otherworld of the Deep and This-world meld; and for this while, the Menning shines forth within everything like a lovely many-hued Seeing, like a sky-broad Cloud-land lit from within, borne on a luft of glad rynisch music.  And this is what makes the Yule-tide such a gladsome time of Hope for the Tocume.

wend= to turn.
Tide= a space of time.
Perihelion= when the Earth is closest to the Sun.
rynisch= mystical, ineffable.
Tocume= the future, the 'time to come'. Ger. Zukunft.

The Deeper Meaning of the Yule-tide

Winter Solstice (Sunwend) represents a turning of fortune, when the lowering of the noon Sun in the sky and the lengthening of night-time at the expense of Day both come to a stop and then reverse; though even so, a long Winter still lies ahead.  And like this turning of the tide of the Year-wheel, the ever mightier Searuvel, wreaking Dilgoth, begins to lose the allegiance of Mankind, its grip on the collective mind and culture falters, and humanity starts to awake from the Dark Spell-- though much has been inflicted that cannot be undone, and a long and terrible tide yet lies before us.  But there is still a light of Hope, for the sacred Biosphere, and for Man, in this tide-turning, this Cherrenge come upon the Earth.

Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Dilgoth= the Extinction Event.
Cherrenge= the great conversion to ecological mind.

Jolly Yule!

Yule Eve this year is Friday, December 20.  Yule Day arrives Saturday the 21st at 12:04 AM EST, so that in time-zones further west it would arrive on the 20th.  And in successive years the calendar day on which Yule arrives varies.  So there's something too fussy about observing the yearly turn-about from the Sun-at-noon lower in the sky each day with the day-length growing shorter, to the opposite.  For the ancients this change-over to the better, promising the inevitable arrival of Spring even though it was now the depth of cruel Winter with much more, and maybe worse, to come, was a cause for celebration ("Fear not, it won't last forever. Rejoice!").  So a feast-day was held, after frank acknowledgement of one's wretched entrapment in fell Winter's grip, which called for strength of heart to endure the Long Cold yet ahead.  That having been said, to buck everyone up a raid was mounted on the winter stores, even though they must last well into Spring to keep off starvation, to mount a defiant jolly Yule-feast to celebrate, help on, the waxing of the Sun, the coming triumph of Day and Light and Warmth, with time-honored offerings made to the Lord Ing, patron God of Good Things, and also to the elvish wights who assist him, to acknowledge their care and aid by sharing with them the bounties of the feast.

The Norse celebrated Yule for the twelve days after Yule Eve, which unbeknownst to them would then last about til Perihelion, when the Earth is closest to the Sun in its orbiting; so, another solar festival.  The Anglo-Saxons called the months bracketing Yule "Early Yule" and "Later Yule"; in sum, the "Yule-tide".  And so maybe Yule should be celebrated with a jolly, hopeful state of mind not tied down to calendar dates, though it is good to have that drama at the precise time of change-over from the decline of the Sun to its rise again, like a Midwinter sun-rise at Stonehenge.  It's nice to have traditions to observe, but since the Yule-tide is now dominated by the Christian holiday and its elaborate Christmas culture, maybe each of us should celebrate the original pagan nature-festival as suits us best, drawing on what we know of the Yule observances of the Northern folk, and whatever of what for a Deep Ecologist seems fitting from the generally horrid commercial and religious campaign surrounding Christmas that dominates the season.  As for the "deeper" meaning of Yule, more later.

By the way, the famous etymologist Walter M. Skeat linked "Yule" (Old English "geola", Norse "jol") with "jolly" (from Norse to Norman-French?) and with "yowl", all connoting festivity.  So, at four minutes after midnight (or whatever), be out there with your pack yowling "Jolly Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuule!".