Wiccans/Pagans, How was your imbolc??

Question

What did you get up to?

Answer 1

I was going to do a ritual for the Bears, but I got called into work. I did do some divinations after I got off. We did a tarot reading and candle drips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlx5oCIEV4Q

Answer 2

Had a stunning Imbolc! an section team that I belong to (no we are no longer a coven) were given jointly for Imbolc Dinner and then met at between the individuals' living house for an rather gorgeous candle-lit ceremony. Very non secular and functional. And on proper of that, between the individuals creates the most acceptable artistic endeavors using leaves! I actually have a incredible leaf chicken to operate to my altar paintings! :: huge smile :: Blessed Imbolc to you and to all and multiple!

Answer 3

Lovely.

We read poems about Brighid, and a story, and talked about the meaning of Imbolg to our ancestors, and why it was such an important turning point of the year for them. We did a candle blessing and a hearth blessing, and we talked about what we wanted to have grow in our lives this year. I sent a Brighid house blessing home with everyone with a candle to leave burning in a window at their home (a shielded candle, of course, with all due warning about making sure that they could leave it burning safely)

We burned one of the Yule logs from this past Yule, as a physical demonstration that the promise of Yule is fulfilled at Imbolg - that light, heat, food, and joy are returning to the Earth.

We feasted on seasonally appropriate foods (even though one participant got a little pouty about it) - smoked meat, fresh cheeses, home-baked breads, root vegetables, desserts made from dried fruit.

Our coven was hosting another coven (at their covenstead) which has frequently hosted us for Sabbats. It was such a good experience that we've already planned to do it again, for Lammas.

It was all-around a good thing to do that. For one thing, one of the members of the coven we hosted had never attended a ritual in a tradition other than the one that their coven practices, and I always think it's a good thing to honor the traditions of others, and to expose coven members to other practices.

For another, since I did all the cooking (only asking that the other people bring cheeses), I was able to tie the feast foods into the story about the history of Imbolg and what it means.

And having the ritual not at our home, but with me doing all the cooking (except for smoking the turkey - my darling hubby did that) , meant that there wasn't one household that had to do everything.

It was good. It was meaningful. It was new for some, and that's a fine thing at this time of year. And it honored our history, which is important at any Sabbat.

Next year I want to incorporate a practice I had with a previous coven - I'm going to save all the stubs from the candles that we use in ritual throughout the year, and next Imbolc we're going to make new candles from those stubs. The candles we make will be the first lighted through the next year - the candle from which all other candles are lit.

Answer 4

It was rather, not how I planned it.
It was cold. Rediculously cold and the guests we invited for the holiday called and said their car wouldn't start, would we come to their house instead. So all the food I had planned to cook is still in my fridge and the old crosses never got burned and new ones never got made, (I guess we'll do that this weekend) and the house blessing didn't get done. But we spent the day with our friends playing board games instead.

Answer 5

Quiet and a bit cold!

I didn't get to do all the things I would have liked to. Some of my kids were sick!

Answer 6

brilliant! celebrated with a bunch of bellydancing witches and pagans.

Answer 7

Wonderful! will be working on planting my goals for this year.

Answer 8

It was amazing. Had dinner, ritual, drinks, fellowship, and laughter. What more could I ask for. :)