Imbolc is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, and says it is “when the ewes are milked at spring’s beginning”. This linking of Imbolc with the arrival of lambs and sheep’s milk probably reflected farming customs that ensured lambs were born before calves.

We honor Goddess Brigit

During Imbolic we honor Goddess Brigit, the protector of hearth, home, healers, and smiths.

Imbolc is widely considered a festival of the divine feminine.

It’s still winter 🥶 but the earth life is beginning to stir, and above the earth the hours begin of daylight begin to increase.

Imbolc is the time to visualize life flourishing with abundance, creativity and renewed strength. Imbolc represents purification, renewal, reflection, fertility and illumination.

Imbolic is also called Candlemas

Imbolic is also called Candlemas seeing as the earth is getting ready for her renewal spring.

Imbolc is a sabbat of fire and light

Imbolc is a sabbat of fire and light. Honor Brigit by building a fireplace or cauldron.

Purification Ritual

Remove any holiday greenery left from Yule and burn 🔥 it in an act of purification. If you have a corn husk doll from Lammas, burn 🔥 it too. Save its ashes and sprinkle them in a garden during spring planting.

Imbolg Sachet of Light Ritual

To harness the light of life and renewal that is also awakening within ourselves, gather a number of seeds from variety of plants. The mixture can contain anything from sunflower seeds to wildflower, and all seeds you plan to plant later in the spring. Place it inside a sachet bag along with an artificial tealight candle. Burry it within the mixture of seeds.

With the all lights in the room turned off, turn your focus to glowing sachet bag and envision all the wonderful things you want to do this year. Deeply focus: visualize, smile, and make a sachet. an illuminating personal spell. Use your witchy intuition what you want to do with sachet of light.

Magical Cooking on St Brigid’s Eve

Families would have a special meal or supper on St Brigid’s Eve to mark the last night of winter.

This typically included food such as colcannon, dumplings, barmbrack or bannocks. Often, some of the food and drink would be set aside for Brigid.

Colcannon (cál ceannann, meaning ‘white-headed cabbage’) is a traditional Irish dish of mashes potatoes with cabbage or kale.

potatoes mashed with butter and milk, with chopped up cabbage and pot herbs.

Barmbrack is a quick bread with added sultanas and raisins. You can put an item (often a ring) is inside the bread, with the person who receives it considered to be fortunate.

Bannock is a flat bread cooked from grain.

Magic Mixture for a Cake Recipe and the Good Luck Spell

Bake A Cake

Or make a seed cake to share, seeds are full of possibilities. Tie it with silver, or white, or green, or any combination of ribbon.

Simple Seed Cake

You need:

Flour 300gms/10oz

A pinch of salt

I teaspoon baking powder

Butter 125gms/4oz

caraway seeds 25gms/1oz

sugar 175gms/6oz

Two eggs, beaten

Four tablespoons of water

Set the oven to 400F/200C and grease and line a 6 inch cake tin.
Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into your cauldron or a large bowl and then rub in the butter.
As you do this think of family and friends, think of the small personal things that you would have them benefit from as Spring flows into their lives.
Visualise light flowing into the mixture, fire of truth and illumination, if you wish, use a rhyme.
Stir in the seeds and sugar and then the eggs, mix with just enough water to give a mix that softly drops off your spoon.
Stir in patience for the coming Spring, this is still a time of waiting.
pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for one hour, then reduce the temperature to 375F/175C and cook for a further half to one hour until the cake is golden brown and well risen. leave this one to cool in its tin,

May you enjoy.

The Spell Words

A simple stirring rhyme, using your wooden spoon, might go like this:

Continuous motion,

May all things flow, Circles of magic,

Let the power grow, Elements mixing, Accept my plea,

As I wish, So mote it be.

Candle Magic

As part of your celebrations, light candles (the Flame of Brigid) and make wishes for your family and friends – the simplest form of candle magic.

We celebrate and honour Brigit by weaving solar crosses out if craft straw, blessing water to bath in; sprinkle our homes in purification, or making candies with magical intentions.

We can purchase coloured candies and inscribe them before dressing them with magical oils. A nice tradition to dress (or to make) a candle for each perdón we wish to send health, abundance, and other blessings to.

As night behind to fall

As night begins to fall, light a bee white candle. Carry it through your home, pausing as you pass a window, a door, or a mirror. Place the candle on a table. To honor the increasing light surround it with several small mirrors; and let the candle burn. As it burns, think of the light that burns inside of you. Think of the light inside of you, which fuels you creativity and imagination. Take a moment to thank goddess Brigid.

End your celebration by making hot chocolate. You can use whipped cream, ice cream and marshmallows.