An Imbolc Fire Ritual

Honor the pagan festival of Imbolc with a simple ritual designed to release the heaviness of winter and invite in the healing fire of springtime.

Imbolc is a traditional Gaelic festival celebrated each year around February 1. It heralds early spring, and while many parts of the world are still very much covered in snow at this time, Imbolc celebrations honor the fire of life returning to the earth after a long winter.

Imbolc is a cross-quarter day, landing at the approximate midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, and is the time when we can start to see the earliest signs of spring to come, even if only in the fact that the days are lengthening. Keep reading…