This year our celebrations seem to be much more focused on what is happening on the land around us at this festival time...and less about the feast of Brigid and the tradition of candle dipping. Some years festivals just seem to have a life of their own! I've learned that its best to go with it :)
What we've been experiencing outdoors is a lot of cold, gray, wet, mossy days intermingled with a happy handful of frosty, sugary, snowy, white days all winter long. But lately we've been sensing something different in the air....we can tell that the land is waking...we call it the "stirring of the seeds" (a perfect phrase gleaned years ago from
this book
). This, to me, is the essence of Imbolc/Candlemas season.
Anxious to see signs of this "stirring" that we knew
must be going on under our very feet, we engineered some visible signs of our own:
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| planting bean, corn & melon seeds in a bag |
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| taping it to a sunny window |
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| We learned this trick here |
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| starting some seeds for the garden |
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| broccoli seeds...the tiniest seed babies ever! |
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| sweet potato |
Now we watch and wait....
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