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A Celebration of Spring and Renewal!
Merry meet, fellow Witches and Pagans!
Another few months pass and another festival graces our lives. This time, it's Imbolc (or Imbolg/Oimelc), a festival of spring and renewal with its origins among the ancient Celts (unless you're in the southern hemisphere, in which cases it's Lughnasadh!). In celebration of the holiday, we've gathered all of our Imbolc-related posts and put them in one big pile for your easy reading. I realize this is a bit late, but hopefully you'll still find something to appreciate in it!
May your spring be warm and bright and the remaining winter be easy in its passing!
-Aryós Héngwis
Imbolc Posts:
- Steven Posch. "Crown of Lights"
- Lady May. "February"
- Steven Posch. "Groundhog"
- Molly. "I Keep Vigil to the Flame in My Heart"
- We'Moon. "Imbolc Blessings"
- Deborah Blake. "An Imbolc Dream Pillow"
- Molly. "Imbolc Meditation"
- Sable Aradia. "Imbolc in the Okanagan"
- Ashley Rae. "A Personal History of Imbolc"
- Nimue Brown. "Planting the Seeds"
- Steven Posch. "Satyr Dance"
Deities of Life and Health Posts:
- Holli Emore. "Ani in the Underworld, Part 1"
- Holli Emore. "Ani in the Underworld, Part 2"
- Sable Aradia. "B Is for Brigid"
- Molly. "Brigid Prayer"
- Susan Harper. "Emerge and Awaken"
- Byron Ballard. "Fire, Beer, Smithery"
- Steven Posch. "Song of Brigid"
- Christiana Gaudet. "Tarot Invocation and Divination for Brigid"
- Bee Smith. "Weaving Brigid's Magic"
- Lizann Bassham. "Baby"
- Melia Brokaw. "Child of Nine"
- Eileen Troemel. "Coping with Negative Energy"
- Steven Posch. "Red Beads"
- Amanda Morris. "Self-Care Tips from the Space Witch"
Spring Posts:
Summer/Lughnasadh (Southern Hemisphere) Posts:
Winter Posts:
- Hilary Parry. "The 5 of Pentacles & Spiritual Lessons Learned from Snow-Shoveling"
- Courtney Weber. "Activate Darkness"
- Leni Hester. "At Home in the Dark"
- Leni Hester. "Dead of Winter"
- Steven Posch. "In the Heart of Winter"
- Bee Smith. "Samhain Season Slumbering"
- Steven Posch. "Visible Gods"
- Lia Hunter. "Winter"
Cool Stuff We Found:
- Asklepios, Son of Apollo and Father of Medicine
- Apollo, the Greek God of Healing
- Babalu Aye, the Orisha of Health and Illness
- Brigit, the Gaelic Goddess of Flame
- A Celebration of Ebisu, Guardian of Children
- A Dedication to Isis
- Exercise vs. Diet
- Fundraising Drive for Inari Shrine in America
- The Funeral of Baldr
- The Hellenization of Isis
- Hitaki Sai Fire Festival, in Honor of Inari
- Isis, the Egyptian Goddess of Life and Rebirth
- Makara Sankranti, a Hindu Festival Akin to Imbolc
- MRI Scans of the Human Body in Motion
- Neurology and Psychiatry in Babylon
- An Offering for Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of Rebirth
- Periboriwa, the Yamomami Mistress of the Moon
- Prayers for Inari, the Shinto Goddess of Life
- Pregnancy from Start to Finish
- Sekhmet, the Egyptian Goddess of War and Health
- Serqet, the Egyptian Goddess of Poison and Healing
- A Shrine for Proserpina, the Roman Goddess of Renewal
- A Statue of Sekhmet in Hermopolis
- This Chart Shows The Worst Diseases That Don't Get Enough Research Money
- The Truth About Vaccines
- What's the Difference Between an Outbreak and an Epidemic?
- When You Lose Weight, Where Does the Fat Actually Go?
- Why Your Muscles Get Sore (and What You Can Do About It)
- Women's Health in the Middle Ages
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