Celebrating Imbolc
Imbolc represents the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It is the stirring and awakening of the energy of the Yin deep cycles of Winter and Autumn when the dark hag, the Cailleach, shapeshifts into Brigid the Maiden.
The Water Element
Water remains the centre of the world, as much for our ancestors as for ourselves, the medium through which all energy is exchanged be it sunlight and the process of photosynthesis in plants, the sacred fluids in which we are conceived, grown and birthed, or the state to which death will take us, back into the ocean of the divine. It will carve a valley from a mountain as easily as it creates a mountain from a valley, levelling as it goes, and returning all to harmony. No matter where you look in nature, you will find Water balancing out the extremes to ensure the well-being of the entire tapestry.
Death, divorce and Autumn.
Crone meets Maiden
As Winter and Spring approach their own seasonal frontiers we meet the merger of Springs youth and Winters experience. A warm greeting between maiden and crone and the cusp of great and unmanifest potential where suddenly both parties realize it is time….
Late Winter Light
“Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is, and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be empty, that is all.”
- I Ching