Imbolc: Tending to our Creative Stirrings
Think about rituals each season to celebrate the arrival of spring or the harvest, think about rituals of gratitude and abundance each day to remember where our food came from or who was involved in cultivating the earth.
Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more
Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more
Ecological Belonging
Connecting to and having a relationship with your wildness is what will bring about your most fertile thoughts, creativity, and ideas.
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In your heart may there be a sanctuary
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
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The Gaelic festival of Imbolc is held on the first day of February, and is associated with dusting away the cobwebs that have grown in the corners during the darkest months.
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
It's a special time right now as Beltane begins tomorrow - the Celtic fire festival marking the end of winter and the beginning of summer.
Back in the day, this was a festival of great celebration for our distant ancestors, marked by bonfires, feasting, dancing, and rituals to honour the fertility and abundance of the land and nature.
Back in the day, this was a festival of great celebration for our distant ancestors, marked by bonfires, feasting, dancing, and rituals to honour the fertility and abundance of the land and nature.
Beltane reflections & Birch wisdom: What will nourish you?
Then, in early spring, as the lambing time arrived and the ewes came into milk, the goddess Brigit would come into her own: there would be festivals of lighting fires and the blessing of water sources. This was the time of Imbolc, around February 1. A sheaf of new oats would be dressed in female clothes and placed in a “Bride’s Bed” in honor of Bri
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