A Midwinter Fairy of Hope

Hello Friends of Bluebird Fairies,

I hope this writing finds you happily open and aware.

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, February brings welcome light into our lives.

It’s the time of Imbolc; the Celtic holiday that marks the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Here’s a fairy for the holiday-

Ah, ‘the Fairy of Imbolc’ standing on snow beneath a star filled sky and holding a green candle in each hand. We celebrate your words of “We welcome the light.”

Here’s a piece of writing called ‘Imbolc’ by Maeanna Welti written for Mother Tongue Ink and included in this year’s We’Moon Datebook.

“Breathe into emptiness. Stir in the silence that winter gifted you. Touch new skin, the surprise aliveness, the contours winter revealed. There is an echoing silence that precedes every new thing.

Imbolc is the insistence of the spring waters, pushing up through cold earth. It is the restlessness of birdsong, the persistence of the sap. It is the dark that folds around all that is stirring, saying: Pace yourself, love.

Imbolc calls us to be simple. We have nothing but what winter left us. We have nothing but our own stirring heartbeats and desires. Nothing but the fire in our bellies that warmed us through the deepest darks. It is time to polish ourselves. To clear, clean, hone. To stand in the barest simplicity of our aliveness and promise ourselves to service, to spring.

Make a simple promise. To our wholeness, to becoming. Find the seed inside you, swollen with its own longing, that insists, with all the force of life, that it will sprout when the time is right. Simple, naked, clean, fiercely alive.

I just love this writing and hope it finds resonance for you right now.

I also would like you to know that Gwendolyn Evans and I taped a video in which we share this year’s Energy Map. Please check it out here. I’ll continue to share the fun and insightful work she and I are doing here on my web site.

On we go!!

Fondly,

Emily and the Fairies