I got up at my usual time, about an hour before light. The floors were cold as I padded through the house on bare feet. I lit a candle to guide me downstairs to the woodstove that would usually carry a little warmth from the full rounds loaded in before bed, but not at Imbolc. At Imbolc, I …
Imbolc
Purification
Don't worry, I'm not about to talk about how to rid your aura of toxic vibes. Instead, I want to present purification as a path to clarity and ease, and as a way to create social change and fairness. Let's start here: The Priestess archetype rules purification, the second step of a …
Celebrating Imbolc
Once upon a time, winter was something to survive. It was no joke. I don't mean like, lacking vitamin D, wishing you could wear shorts, and grumbling about commuting home in the dark. More like a quarter of your community freezing or starving to death, succumbing to illness, being lost in a …
Meet The Priestess
She stands on a snowy hill, dressed in white; a lone beacon of warmth in a frozen landscape. From a distance, you can see her breath puffing out in measured clouds. As she walks closer, her warmth wraps around you like an embrace. She stops in front of you, and suddenly she's no longer …
Where are we?
We're walking the Wheel of the Year, spending around 6 weeks in each season. Normally, right about now we'd be completing a season and getting ready for a "rest week" when we clear off our altar, pause our anointing practice, and let the work of the season settle and integrate. But this time, …
