By the time February 1st rolls around, most of us are essentially sentient blankets. We’ve spent the last six weeks vibrating at the frequency of a slow-cooker, surviving on leftover Yule chocolate and the desperate hope that the sun wasn’t just a fever dream we all had last July.
Enter Imbolc.
While the rest of the world is distracted by groundhogs and overpriced Valentine’s candy, we Pagans are out here lighting every candle in the house to remind the Earth that it has a job to do. Imbolc (pronounced im-bulk, or em-bowl-ug if you want to sound fancy at the moot) is the “Great Quickening.” It’s that subtle, slightly frantic heartbeat beneath the frost.
To read the full article, go to my “Witch At The Crossroads” blog on the Green Egg Magazine site: https://greeneggmagazine.com/2026/01/31/imbolc-because-nature-needs-a-caffeine-kick-and-so-do-you/