Imbolc, Brigid & The Quickening of Spring

Imbolc/g is an ancient Celtic/Pagan holiday celebrating the very first whispers of new life and the earliest breaths of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Also called 'The Quickening of Spring' Imbolc is a time to celebrate the stirrings of new life and fertility upon the earth.

Imbolc marks the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox and is most closely associated with the Celtic Goddess Brigid, who was celebrated as the goddess of learning, healing, the smitharts/craftsman and fertility.

Now is a potent time in the great Wheel of the Year to begin to gently encourage the germination of winter seeds that have been rooted into the fertile earth. Imbolc is considered the beginning of the great thawing of the earth as the sun begins to gentle shine upon the land again and the ice begins to melt leaving a soft and fertile land beneath. A time…