#imblog

[urban-coffee-cult]

I really wish it was easier for me to celebrate the holidays :v( since I live in the Southern Hemisphere sabbaths like mabon and yule ect are all different and I dont get to enjoy the posts :v(

[octaviasquill]

Imbolc/Imblog Activities and Ideas

Make or decorate candles

Brighid, the Celtic goddess of fire, healing, and poetry is considered the patron Goddess of Imbolc. Read up on her as a Celtic goddess and as her later incarnation, St. Brigit.

Burn the evergreen boughs that decorated your home during the winter holidays in the Imbolc Fires and celebrate the return of the Sun’s strength and the Godess as the Maiden.

Brighid is the goddess of poetry. Write a poem in her honor, and read it aloud during any Imbolc ritual you may have planned.

Cleanse and re-consecrate your ritual tools and clean your altar.

Go through all your herbs and discard those that are more than a year old.

Weave “Brigit’s crosses” from straw or wheat to hang around the house for protection

Perform rites of spiritual cleansing and purification

Make “Brigit’s beds” to ensure fertility of mind and spirit (and body, if desired)

Ritually cleanse your home and start your “spring” cleaning

Make a Crown of Light (i.e. of candles for the High Priestess to wear for the Imbolc Circle, similar to those worn on St. Lucy’s Day in Scandinavian countries

Place a lighted candle in each and every window of the house, beginning at sundown on Candlemas Eve (February 1), allowing them to continue burning until sunrise. Make sure that such candles are well seated against tipping and gaurded from nearby curtains, etc. If you are not able to use real candles use those candle lamps sold at crafts and department stores for the Christian Christmas season.

Buy a “salt lick” block and leave it out for the wild animals.

Make a window garden with seeds, soil, old glass jars or rinse some tuna or cat food cans, and get ready for spring! Easy items are beans, mints, marigolds. Even carrot or pineapple tops and avocado pits are fun to do.

Make a Bride doll

Make a tiny “Candle Garden” by filling a small aluminum pan with fine salt or sand and “planting” birthday candles, Hanukkah candles or even tea lights in the “garden”

Tie tiny strips of fabric in trees near a stream and ask Bride for her influence in your life. Use cotton strips and the birds will use them for nesting or they will bio-degrade over time

Play a candle game where the men stand in forming a circle whole passing a candle quickly and the women stand on the outside of the circle trying to blow out the flame. The one who succeeds gets to claim a kiss.

Meditate as a family. Have everyone explore what it would feel like to be a seed deep in the Earth, feeling the first stirrings of life. Lie on the floor and put out tendrils. Stretch and bloom.

Have a bardic circle where everyone brings poetry, songs or a short story that they have written to honor Brigid (Brigit/Brigid/Bride was the daughter of Dagda. She was the protector of the poets, the forge and the healing persons.)

Help your kids go through all their clothes, toys, and books to find the unwanted and outgrown items. Donate everything to a charity that will give the items to children who need them.

Go for a walk. Search for signs of spring. Take off your shoes and socks and squish your toes in the mud!

Lead the family on a parade around the outside of your home, banging on pots and pans or playing musical instruments to awaken the spirits of the land.

Have your children hold some herb seeds in their hands. Talk to the seeds. Bless them with growth and happiness. Fill them with love.

Plant an in-door herb garden.

Make corn dollies and a cradle for them to sleep in.

[octaviasquill]

Imbolc/Imblog Correspondences

Colors: White, Orange, Red, Yellow

Tools: Plough, garden implements

Herbs/Flowers: Angelica, Basil, Bay Laurel, Blackberry, Celandine, Coltsfoot, Heather, Iris, Myrrh, Snowdrop, Tansy, Violets, First Flower of the Year

Stones/Gems: Amethyst, Bloodstone, Garnet, Ruby, Onyx, Turquoise

Symbols & Decorations: Candles, Lamps, Brooms, Yellow flowers, Brighid’s Crosses, Priapic Wands (acorn-tipped), dish of snow, evergreens

Foods: All plant-based dairy products, curries, onions, chives, seeds, herbal tea, Poppyseed Cakes, muffins, scones, and breads, onions, garlic, raisins, spiced wines

Deities: Dagda (Celt), Pan (Greek), Cernunnor (Celt),Osiris (Egyptian), Herne (Saxon), Jupiter (Roman), Demeter (Greek), Ceres (Roman), Cerridwen (Celt), Aengus Og, Eros, and Februus,Frigg (Norse), Cybele Brighid (Celt), Bride, Brigette, all virgin Goddesses and Gods of love and fertility

Animals: Sheep, Wolves, Bears, Stags, Eagle, Raven, Groundhog, Owl, Snake

Other names for this holiday: Candlemas, Imbolg, Brigit’s Day, St. Lucy’s Day, Feast of Brighid, Oimealg, Imbolgc Brigantia, Imbolic, Disting (Teutonic, Feb 14th), Lupercus, Candlelaria, The Festival of Lights, or the Feast of the Virgin.

[carniesofchaos-blog]

NEW YORK $10 SHOW! Come check out all the new stuff we have in store for New York! It’s going to be a fantastically frightening evening with spooktacular performances from @reignoffearofficial @arcmetalband #Imblog @insurrealnyc and your favorite freaks! Come watch the horror unfold before your very eyes this Saturday, Oct 26th, at @sixtysixthcongress ! See you then! 🎪 • • • • • • #kkreaper #carniesofchaos #insurreal #imblog #reignoffear #arc #sixtysixthcongress #halloween #horror #horrorpunks #shockrock #heavymetal #newyork #brooklyn #nyc #october #spookyseason #headlining #cheaptix #local #nylocal #supportlocalmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/B38A5WdHGVx/?igshid=1673dr2qgap0p