Blessed Imbolc!

Blessed Imbolc Everyone! ^_^ Pagan or not Pagan, please let's all join in the celebration of the end of the cold, wintery days! (Though admitedly, I LOVE Winter more than any other season in the planet.) I've been researching a little bit - as usual - about the celebration and have been keeping for myself those things that I can use, which apply to the general frame of my believes and personal philosophy.

Imbolc, more than other celebrations of the Pagan Calendar, remind me of one of my favorite topics: Organization. So how can we live it? ^_^ Here's what I take of it.

This sabbath is basically about the first signs of life, the waking up of nature. The patron (or matron?) of this celebration is Brigid, also known for Christians as Saint Brigid, the Light Bringer. The first flowers push through the snow and bloom, the first green sprouts shyly come out and the days go a bit warmer. In some countries also celebrate the Groundhog Day, which is when the groundhog comes out of it's burrow. If it doesn't go back to it, the Spring has arrived! If not, winter still keeps some more days to reign.

In general, today, as you celebrate the awakening of nature, you also walk out of the time of meditation you've been in since Samhain (Halloween), and are ready to work! But just not yet! In this celebration you live the moment when you prepare to work, when the plans you have been drawing up since Yule (like Christmas), and all those wonderful plans you've been making since New Year. This is the moment when you put down your pencil and stand up to gather all the supplies you need, and roll your sleeves to prepare the fields to sow what you wish to reap this year. And what better way to plough your field than tackling a fun, and healthy Spring Cleaning!! Doesn't that idea gets you giddy? ---- Ok, maybe it's just, Dragonfly, Trish and I...

Pick the scrub, and tackle your closet and drawers. Take a step back and make decisions: What will help you achieve your goals for this year? Is that skinny dress that has been making you feel bad really help your get back in shape, or would that rather be achieved with your tracksuit, that makes you feel great and want to run a couple of laps around the block? Do you need your old backpack and college stuff, or are you ready to take the next step and fully assume your life as a professional? Time to get a promotion or a better job? Then dust out your power suit and cast away from your closet all those clothes that say "yeah, I'm here, but I'd rather be somwhere else". It's time also to get all your tools in order, decide what you need more at hand, and what would take more space than being functional? Naturally, you should have your plans drawn up for this point - these are your blueprints to get what you want done! - and if you don't, what have you been doing since New Year? Recovering from hangover? Dust your plans up, review your New Year Resolutions, your dreams about what you want to achieve, all that planning you should have been doing, and make sure you have all you need to make all that happen! This is the moment to drop all excess baggage, warm up, flex your muscles and prepare: your fabulous work is just ahead!

There is something quite beautiful and fabulous about separating the planning from the preparing. You don't go planning what you'll sow and buy the implements at once. By separating both things you can plan quietly, on a larger scale, break it into smaller bits to be accomplished in different periods... and undo it and do it again if it doesn't work! Now you have your plans, you know what you want, you have your instuctions, so you stock up for all that you decided to do.

So, arm up, smile, get deep into cleaning, selecting, organizing and prepare everything to get your goals! Blessed Imbolc, All!!