🕯️Imbolc

Posted on by stargardener

🕯️Imbolc begins at sunset on February 1 and continues through February 2. 

“The psyches and souls of women have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place…” -Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Imbolc marks the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. If you are in need of a Day One, this Gaelic tradition is certainly an option. ❤️

Dates and calendar years are not as relevant or memorable as personal anniversaries, seasons and celestial cycles —or for our perspective and discovery, expression and growth.

“We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.” -Katherine May

For this seasonal change, let’s be attentive to what we want (and need), and what has waited long enough.

There are defining (and guiding) limits on our time and energies and resources. We can do (most) anything — but we will never have the capacity to do everything.

  • However, please remember: each day offers us 24 hours that can serve as our Day One. And each hour offers us 60 opportunities to begin again, to decide and to act; to pause and reflect; to conclude, release and change course.

New seasons in nature are opportunities for us to transition into the new seasons (life choices and stages) awaiting us.

“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” -William James

Braveheart, let’s self-compassionately give attention to what we want and abide in our soul-place. And let’s allow time and space for wonder and curiosity, wandering and rest.

Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗

I appreciate your interest and support.

~love & good wishes~

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