Winter Wonderland

"The forest and I was all there was.  

    In the deep still silence I could feel the Earth's beating heart." 

~ John Muir

Imbolc 2018

The midpoint of Winter and the promise of Spring!

Imbolc begins at sunset today!

Gravity of Love

"If you're in the eye of the storm,

just think of the lonely dove, 

the experience of survival 

is the key to the gravity of love..."

~  Enigma

Imbolc

It is now the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.  New life is stirring as Great Horned Owls lay and begin to incubate their eggs.  Sap begins running in the depths of maple trees. Baby lambs are born.  Hours of daylight are getting noticeably longer in the northern hemisphere. The life force in hardy winter plants becomes aware of itself. The great wheel of the year has reached Imbolc!

Tundra Swans in Flight

"We cannot stop the winter or summer from coming.  We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are.  They are gifts from the Universe that we cannot refuse.  But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives."  ~  Gary Zukov (author of The Seat of the Soul)

Farewell to Summer

Leaves begin to fall.

The days grow cool.

Mother Earth pulls her mantle close.

The great Sun sails toward the West.

Land of eternal enchantment,

wrapped in cool nights.

Fruits ripen and seeds drip.

Hours of daylight and darkness are balanced.

In this seeming extinction of nature's power,
I know that life continues.

For spring is impossible without the harvest,

as surely as life is impossible without death.

~ anonymous

Owl Eyes

"When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal.  I see a living being.  I see a friend.  I feel a soul."

~ Anthony Douglas Williams, author of Inside the Divine Pattern

Solstice Greetings!

The true meaning of this date every year symbolizes the death of the old crop cycle in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of a new cycle.  Trees are dormant and the earth rests and regenerates itself until the spark of life returns in February at the time of Imbolc.

One with Nature