Like many Celtic festivals, the Imbolc celebrations centered around the lighting of fires. Fire was perhaps more important for this festival than others as it was also the holy day of Brigid (also known as Bride, Brigit, Brid), the Goddess of fire, healing, and fertility. The lighting of fires celebrated the increasing power of the Sun over the coming months. The Goddess Brigid was so much loved that when the Christians were converting Pagans, they could not change the holiday of Imbolc so the holiday was reformed and renamed ‘Candlemas’, when candles are lit to remember the purification of the Virgin Mary, and they changed the Goddess Brigid into Saint Brigid.
As Imbolc is in between Winter and Spring, it reminds us that there is strength in cold as well as heat, death as well as life, light as well as dark. To embrace them both on this day.
At Imbolc we celebrate the young God and Goddess that of the young fertile earth and the young waxing Sun growing more in power day by day.
Imbolc is the ending of Winter and the beginning of Spring, to celebrate Imbolc, light a fire, it may only be a very small one and make wishes for the coming year into the flames. Burn any leftover evergreens that were decorating your home at Yule. Clean your homes of clutter that was gathered over the Yuletide and get rid of the old and bring in the new. Plant flowers for them to bloom in the Spring. Use a sage smudge stick to cleanse your homes of stale or unwanted negative energies.
Imbolc is a time of contemplation, to think about the year that has passed, mistakes, successes, and what we have learned from them to help us achieve our goals, dreams, and ambitions for the coming year. As well as planting seeds to grow in the earth also plant seeds in your mind to grow and blossom over the coming months.
Have a blessed Imbolc, May the God and Goddess watch over you.
*Written credit goes to Wicca Teachings*
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Thank you for the Reblog.
Extremely interesting!
There was a lot more that I could have added, but I was tired and lazy today. I might go back and add some more to it at a later date. Thanks for reading it. Talk to you soon hon! 🙂
love….thank you and Happy Ostara! …or Imbolc ; ) whichever title you prefer. Blessed Be the good tidings of Spring!
Imbolc is February, and Ostara is March. I’m very specific about that sort of thing.
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for reading and for the follow. 🙂
forgive me…I just started working midnights and my mind does not always make sense, or at least it did not when I was writing this message. I thought something was off when I was reading the Imbolc post…at Ostara time….I was confused and dazed. ha! Happy Ostata!
I post for every Sabbat and Full Moon, so you probably just clicked on the wrong one at the wrong time. No harm, no foul.
switching back to a night shift is so interesting, sometimes it does feel like I am a whole season off! ha.
great writings anyway ; )
I cannot take credit for the writing on this whatsoever. I credit all of it to Wicca Teachings. I continue to share it to help educate those who follow me and are interested.