Imbolc

Imbolc marks the midpoint between Midwinter and the Spring Equinox. Winter still reigns, and yet creation is finally begining to awaken beneath the surface; what was only promised at Midwinter now begins to show itself. So where Yule is the assurety that creation continues, and divine providence never ceases, then Imbolc is the earliest, most intimate evidence that life is returning. A seasonal gateway through which the Shekhinah quietly reemerges into the world- felt as warmth returning to soil, hearth, womb, and milk.

And yet the Divine Presence does not arrive all at once, but reenters creation softly. Imbolc therefore carries the holiness of the in between, and the sacredness of the liminal: Neither deep winter nor spring, but the space of becoming. This is the A time of purification and preparation when we return to alignment (both internally and environmentally) in preparation for what will be when everything finally unfolds fully. In this way, Imbolc sanctifies waiting itself- shaping us into capable partners in renewal so that when the fullness of new life finally emerges, we are already aligned to receive and sustain it.

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