Imbolc Celebration in Honor of the Goddess Brigid

Imbolc evening was celebrated with my Wiccan friend Lindsay, we got together for a warm midwinter dinner in honor of the maiden Goddess Brigid, who during Imbolc is in the form of the sun and starts to spread her green cloak across the land releasing it from winter. It is this time of year we start to see first glimpses of green and the days start to get longer, as a promise of spring. The dining area was webbed with green and white flowers, along glowing candles to celebrate this festival of light.

We both we in charge of cooking a few dishes for our celebration (see recipe links down below). We started our dinner with the Imbolc 'Friends Ritual' from the Llewellyn's 2018 Sabbats Almanac, which involved drinking a chalice of wine with wild roses in honor of our ancestors who have died. Dinner was splendid over friendship and filling our bellies with hope of Spring to come. I'm truly looking forward to the warmer weather and the Snow Drops that start popping up – they always remind me of my grandmother.

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Imbolc colors, candles, oils and Flowers

Recipes / Foods

Symbols for the Sabbat / Goddess Brigid

Imbolc & Brigid Customs / Offerings

IMBOLC SYMBOLS & COLORS:

Candles: white (represents the snowy winter) and green (future and land that will be), pink and blue

Flowers: snowdrops, willow tree leaves, floral fertility crowns

Oils: cinnamon, lavender, cedar wood, lemon, rose, jasmine, rosemary

Crystals: garnet, bloodstone, amethyst, sunstone

Incense: (fresher scents for Spring) basil, bay, wisteria, cinnamon, violet, vanilla, myrrh

BRIGID SYMBOLS & COLORS:

Aspects of Brigid: poetry, creativity, forge, blacksmiths, healing, medicine, home/hearth, fertility, Cailleach (divine hag, Goddess of Winter)

Symbols: Fire, cauldron, spring, well, Brigid wheels, Goddess effigy/dollies, the bride

Colors: red and white

Animals: white cow with red ears, ewe sheep, wolf, snake, swan (white feathers), phoenix, fox

Tea light candles from: Earth Goddess Body Shop - vegan, natural bath & body products

RECIPES:

Top left to right: wine with rose petals for our Friends Ritual, Baked Brie with Balsamic Rosemary Cranberry Sauce (we used raspberries instead!), Classic Shortbread Cookies, Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken

Below: Lavender Tea Milk Punch (from Gather Victoria: Ancestral Food)

Other foods for this Sabbat: Dairy everything!!! Seeds, honey bars, seeded breads and cakes (represent new life), herbal teas like ginger, roasted vegetable soups, beer cheese soup, herb and honey butter