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when sunbeams do this.

that is all.

How to Set Up An Altar for Imbolc 🕯️

Imbolc is a call to appreciate the stark beauty of this season. The falling snow, the warm comfort of a cup of tea, and the bright lights of candles are all things I associate with Imbolc.

Like all other sabbats, I like to decorate my fireplace mantle as an altar so that I can appreciate the holiday. I like to start by laying down a simple altar cloth. The colors I associate with Imbolc are white, red, and green so I try to incorporate these colors for my altar set up.

Imbolc is traditionally a festival to honour Brigid, a celtic goddess associated with fire and the hearth. Her presence was such an integral part of rural communities that Christian missionaries could not stop people from honoring her. Instead, Bridget was woven into the Cathloc church as St. Bridget and today many pagans and Catholics alike celebrate her at this time of year.

One of the most popular activities for Imbolc is making a Brigid’s cross out of reeds or grasses. Living in the city, I didn’t have easy access to green reeds so I made some Bridget crosses out of simple pipe cleaners. This is a really easy craft and if you have kids it would be a great way to introduce them to this Pagan holiday.

The term Imboc comes from Imbolg meaning ‘in the belly’. Thus, this time of year is associated with pregnancy and the reawakening of the earth. At this time we welcome the growth of the returning light and witness the earliest stirrings of rebirth. I love lighting lots of candles for my Imbolc altar to symbolize the light reawakening in the world.

Traditionally, festivals honoring Brigid occurred at the beginning of the lambing season. For me, Paganism is all about reconnecting with the land and our agricultural roots, which can sometimes be tricky for me since I live in the city. So, for a simple snack while I work on my altar I got some Sheep’s milk cheese to honor this lambing season.

As Imbolc represents the earliest return of life any type of Spring flower or new growth would be a great element to add to an altar. We don’t have any new plant life yet here in Chicago so I just picked up a simple bouquet of baby’s breath to use for my altar this year.

Lastly, I like to add some tarot cards to my altar that remind me of this particular season. The Empress is a great card to use as she can represent the fertility of the earth. I’m also going to use two Aces - The Ace of Pentacles can represent the earliest stages of new plant and animal life and the Ace of Wands can represent the beginning of a new fiery energy in the world.

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Crescent Cookies 🌙

I’ve been wanting to use some magick since the last time I almost burned down my kitchen so here we go.

Baking or cooking magick is wonderful way for witches in the broom closet to create and discretely practice.

TBH this recipe went haywire so I randomly threw some more stuff in oops.

What you’ll need

For cookies

2-2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour

2 sticks of softened salted butter (add 1/4 a pinch of salt if you don’t have salted butter)

3/4 cups of sugar

2 tablespoons of milk

1/2 cup of chopped almonds

Pinch of Cinnamon

For icing (optional)

3/4 cups of powdered sudar

1 tablespoon of milk

A dash of vanilla extract

Recipe

Beat the butter until fluffy, then add sugar. Best until combined

Add almonds, cinnamon and 2 cups of flour, mix until combined

The mix should be crumbly and not a dough yet. Slowly add milk until dough consistency.

Use the rest of the flour for your hands and break off pieces to form crescent shapes

Place on cookie sheet and cook for 15 minutes.

In another bowl mix together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Add more powdered sugar or milk for desired consistency.

Allow cookies to cool then dip into frosting while still warm.

Random notes

You can light candles in your kitchen, cleanse your space before cooking or add anything that you find fit.

I left some of these cookies on my alter and brought some to a friends party, this was the first time I successfully baked some I’m pretty proud.

I wish everyone a blessed new year ~

FUCKING TRUTH!!!!!

oh you think your life is hard? try being a gay rat living in france who hates your dad and just wants to cook

i know its been said b4 but growing up suicidal and then reaching an age you never planned to live to is extremely stressful and terrifying, and we deserve more credit for not killing ourselves and THEN having to make up for the time we spent not caring if we lived or died and not doing work to improve our lives.

opposite of depression nap. depression awakeness. refreshing the same three websites over and over. there’s nothing new on any of them. eight seconds have passed and it feels like a century

‪me, reading about women in Ancient Greece who could devote their entire lives to being a virgin priestess of hallucinogenic honey: god I wish that was me ‬

*stands in the moonlight to absorb big witch energy*

It’s Mormon conference weekend, which happens twice a year, and is when all the Mormons stay in and listen to new talks given by their leaders all day long on Saturday and Sunday. It’s consequently also a very scary time for the gay community in Utah, and the whole weekend we often send and receive lots of texts checking in, making sure everyone’s okay, asking if they’ve heard the latest awful talk condemning us. There’s real world applications to everything that happens there. Parents are “moved” to disown their children, coworkers and friends and neighbors are reminded to Other us and treat us accordingly. Suicide rates increase significantly. I remember the year after they announced children of gay parents would have to formally disown them before they’d be welcome in the church, and for two weeks afterward a group chat updated the gay community in my area almost every day with a handful of names who were not longer with us. A talk just concluded that said confusing both your gender identity and your gender role is the influence of Satan, which is deeply harmful to young trans kids and to young women. This isn’t a fun or sexy post for your timeline it just sucks and I hate Mormons and I can feel how difficult this next week is going to be as a result.

Therapists are just…. Common sense filters