#imbolg

Imbolc altar

Imbolc grimoire page redo

We’re halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

However you celebrate, my wish today is - in between the hectic pace of daily life -that you all get a few minutes to yourselves and your practices today.

Blessed Imbolc! We celebrate on the morrow! But Lady Bríde comes tonight, so lay out your clootie, make Brigid’s bed, and welcome in the spring!

I don’t talk like this is real life…

So Happy Imbolc! Eat some oats and milk with butter and have a great spring everyone!

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Thanks to @anotherdayforchaosfay for my custom Imbolc altar cloth! I still love it!

Go commission this wonderful artist :)

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“Early on Bríde’s morn,

the serpent rises from the mound.

I will not harm the serpent,

nor will the serpent harm me.”

— Carmina Gadelica, Vol. I

Eggs gathered from the barn on Imbolc. These are primarily from Sumatran, Swedish, and Romanian Naked-Neck hens. One or two guinea eggs might have snuck in. Flanked by white-tailed deer, milk, and serpent skeleton on a bed of Eastern Hemlock.

Imbolc heralds the coming spring. The great serpent of the earth stirs and prepares the fallow field to swell and burst with green vitality. Demeter’s bitter tears dry as baying hounds beckon her daughter’s return. The Old Woman of Winter gathers the last of her firewood as her reign suspends for a season.

Seasonal folklore tells of serpents stealing eggs from the barn or milk from goats and cattle. We leave offerings of milk and eggs to symbolically tempt the serpent from its hole. They wake the serpent, who climbs from the mound, which wakes the trees and their blossoms, which wakes the bees, who begin making the honey that makes the mead for the harvest feasts.

It’ll be time to prep the gardens and sow flats of seeds soon enough. May you all grow beautiful things this year.

Love Terry Pratchett

hagothehills:

“‘If Candlemas day be dry and fair, The half o’ winter to come and mair. If Candlemas day be wet and foul. The half o’ winter gane at Yule’”

— Meaning if it is nice on Candlemas Day you can expect six more weeks of winter weather. (via hagothehills)