A really wonderful piece for knitters to read as we head from Imbolc to Ostara, spring equinox. https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/knitting-the-wheel-of-the-year/
A really wonderful piece for knitters to read as we head from Imbolc to Ostara, spring equinox. https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/knitting-the-wheel-of-the-year/
Though beer has become a purely recreational drink over the last century and a half, as changes in food production, water management, and attitudes towards alcohol have phased it out of daily life, for many of our ancestors it was essential – as sacred as fire, bread, and the other building blocks of civilised life.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/in-praise-of-beer-the-source-of-civilisation.html
7 All links in blog in first post
last YT video, Spectra/Peertube to follow
6 Winter Sun-Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox
#Metenis #Imbolc #Alberta #pagan #Latvian #CrossQuarterDay #SeasonalRhythms #GoOutsideForMe
https://youtube.com/shorts/ktwTVim_udI?feature=share
I had a bunch of short videos over the last few weeks- showing some of our #winter #weather- strong #wind, trees down #frost #snow etc + the Cross-quarter Day #Meteņi #Imbolc #WaitingForSpring
I pulled it all together in a blog post with videos, more pics and blabber.
#Alberta #Canada I'll post all the YouTube and Spectra links + extra photos in this thread
#nature #GoOutsideForMe
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/02/winter-beauty-wind-snow-fallen-trees.html
I'm the bit monkey for the blog #wordsByTerryl from #MoonLitPress . I also do the graphic art work using #inkscape and we publish using #writefreely.
This article shares a witchy Imbolc ritual as a bonus posting. It is a prayerful recognition and celebration of the subtle turning of the seasons. Spring cleaning, if you will, in a spiritual sense.
https://blog.moonlitpress.org/an-imbolc-invocation
#poetry #writing
#CreativeNonfiction #Religion #SacredNature #Paganism #pagan #imbolc
#fedicoven
It's Friday, so here is another FediCoven question.
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Question 20
February 14, 2025:
What are your thoughts on the ethics of love potions and spells?
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All who are walking their path are welcome.
2- So, Happy Waiting for Spring (this is what #Latvians call this Cross-quarter, unlike the British #Imbolc, which sees #spring already arriving!) for all of us in still cold places
for those of you actually seeing spring, Happier still! ( and Welcome/Waiting For Autumn for those on the other side of the world
#OldWays #AncientRhythms #SeasonalRhythms #nature #sunset #Saule
1 Here we are, more or less halfway between Winter Solstice + Spring Equinox! (Thanks to @mirabilos I've recently learned more about the calculation of #CrossQuarter Days: it's not so straightforward!)
Anyway, for me a general idea of mid-way works- I'll make my natural observations over several days anyway, and if I have time/ energy for ritual, it will depend on work/weather!
Short video on YouTube #spectra link to follow
https://youtube.com/shorts/ktwTVim_udI?feature=share
#metenis #imbolc #pagan #animist #Alberta
Blessed #Imbolc from a snowy place in the mountains
Less than a week after Imbolc, and it's already starting to feel like Springtime here in Glasgow. This is today at my local crocus patch where they're rapidly emerging into bloom.
Calling all those who signed up for The Wheel of the Year - Imbolc Yarn Box, it's time for the big reveal!
Introducing 'Imbolc', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn. There are two skeins in each box.
Included in the box is a snowdrop notebook, ginger and honey soap, ginger root tea, a Wendy Andrews Imbolc card and a bag of wooden flower buttons.
Happy knitting!
Fêter imbolc
Nous choisissons un nom pour
Notre sororie
- Mathilde Fauve
https://starhope.substack.com/p/imbolc
#Imbolc
..."Imbolg (im-bolk), arriving not on the 1st of February, but when our light bearer, Lugh (Sol) our star, reaches the middle of An tUiscedóir (tisk-a-door) (Aquarius), is that time in the North when the cold damp and frozen ground began to loosen, and new life stirred beneath the surface. It is neither the stillness of winter nor the abundance of spring, but a point of transition where change was inevitable yet still unseen.
Central to Imbolc is Brigid, ."...