Imbolc - 1 February
Like all the Greater Sabbats Imbolc is a fire festival, but here the emphasis is on light rather than heat, being very much the way of things in the Northern Hemisphere at the beginning of February!
Imbolc celebrates the first stirrings of spring. It is a festival predominantly of green and white, the world as yet lacking a great deal of other colours; of green shoots emerging through frosty ground, of snowdrops, the first lambs, hazel catkins shedding their pollen on the cold wind, of weak winter sunshine and the first signs of lengthening hours of daylight.
Our thoughts as always are with our Goddess, at this time of year in her youth; virginal, fresh, full of new life and expectations, just like the coming season.