Imbolc

Imbolc is celebrated on February 2nd and is a great time to spring clean, both in your house and with your health. Clearing clutter to make room for the new is a symbolic gesture that represents tidying a garden to make way for the new growth to emerge. This is the time to write your New Year resolutions or a wish list, as the light is returning and tasks and projects will be completed with ease and joy.
Imbolc is a time to tune into your intuition and inner wisdom, expressing your deepest feeling and showing love for partners, friends and family. This is a good time to light candles to cleanse and transform the past and open the way for new beginnings. New growth can be symbolised by bringing pots of snowdrops or a vase of twigs indoors to see them bloom and blossom. To me snowdrops carry a message of renewal – symbolising renewed hope, new growth and purity, helping you to let go of the past and bringing light, energy and enthusiasm after the darkness of winter.
It is also a good time to plants seeds, such as sweet peas and snapdragons and as you watch the first brave shoots emerging from the soil, you are symbolically watching your own seeds, ideas and intentions grow and come to fruition.