"Adorn the home
with sacred herbs and colors. Decorate your home in Druidic
holiday colors red, green, and white. Place holly, ivy, evergreen
boughs, and pine cones around your home, especially in areas where
socializing takes place. Hang a sprig of mistletoe above a major
threshold and leave it there until next Yule as a charm for good luck
throughout the year. Have family/household members join together to
make or purchase an evergreen wreath. Include holiday herbs in it
and then place it on your front door to symbolize the continuity of
life and the wheel of the year. If you choose to have a living or a
harvested evergreen tree as part of your holiday decorations,
call it a Solstice tree and decorate it with Pagan symbols."
- Celebrating Winter Solstice, by Wiccan high
priestess Selena Fox, (http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/SolsticeArticle.html)
"However, the
enduring imagery of the festival is forever pagan, from the top of
the Christmas tree to the presents at its base, the Druids' mistletoe and
the Romans' holly over the fireplace, with a Yule log burning in
the grate."
- Seasons of the Witch: The Winter Sabbat , by
L.P. Ruickbie, p. 7