I finally put my Wheel of the Year-themed cross stitch patterns on my ko-fi shop (for free/pay what you want).

I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but never found the spoons for it.

I spend a lot of time making these four years ago and I'm still quite proud of them 😊

#WheelOfTheYear #CrossStitchPattern

https://ko-fi.com/shedeveldesigns/shop

It's Lammas/Lugnasadh in the southern Hemisphere today, celebrating the harvest.

Harvest festivals always seemed to make the most sense to me when I was a kid, celebrating something important and real.

#pagan #WheelOfTheYear #Greetings #Australia

Thanks to those who joined us. It was a modest but enjoyable turnout today for Imbolc. Song topics included Darkness, Light, Imbolc, New Life, Valentine, Groundhog, Horses & Mardi Gras. #SecondLife #VirtualWorlds #WheelOfTheYear

Blessed Imbolc!!!

Happy #february
Rabbit,Rabbit, Rabbit!!

"The earth turns... But we don't feel it move. Then one night you look up. One spark, and the sky is on fire." -Gangs of New York

#imbolc2026 #brighid #turningofthewheel #pagan #wheeloftheyear #light

The Sun Greets Us In The Morning

I will never crave the sunlight the way I do at Imbolc. I’m not a fan of the heat, so eventually the sun and I will settle into a grudging detente through the summer. But now, when it had been so cold for weeks, cloudy and grey, when I have been leaving the house in darkness and coming home bare minutes before the sun sinks towards the horizon, my spirit reaches out towards the sun with such yearning.

At Imbolc, the sun is up noticeably earlier in the morning, and sets around dinnertime. While the weather hasn’t changed and may not for a while yet, the lengthening days lift my spirit. I turn my face to the sun to get every scrap of light on my cold face. This winter has been a frigid one, with snow accumulating without respite. It’s beautiful, but at Imbolc, I feel how temporary it is. The Wheel continues to move. At Imbolc, the energy shifts, and I feel more alert, emerging from my winter burrow rested and ready for new adventures. I didn’t know if I’d make it to rested this winter, but for the last week or so, I’ve been bursting with energy.

It feels strange to be full of life at the same time we watch the world contain such pain. It’s strange to be just a border away from a country being pushed into authoritarianism, but heartening to see the resistance coming from people protecting their neighbours, their communities. This Imbolc-tide, I set an intention to help as I can, and to be vigilant at home to protect against our own versions of these people who want to harm and divide. I also intend to joyfully create in the face of destruction, to turn my mind to new projects and to strengthen the web of community around me. The Sun returns, and the Wheel reminds us that it always does, that change is inevitable.

Happy Imbolc!

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan #imbolc

Trying to stay focused on a spark of hope this Imbolc, as the light returns. 🕯️🌻

This year it feels like I need to really concentrate to see the light in the dark, instead of it coming to me, as it used to, like the sun at dawn.

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#Imbolc #Pagan #witchcraft #witchy #UKwitches #witch #altar #SeasonalLiving #WheelOfTheYear #LightReturning #WinterToSpring #SlowLiving #MindfulMoments #HealingJourney #ChronicIllness #DisabilityVoices #LifeUnscripted

** Monday 12:30pm SLT **
3:30pm EST · 8:30pm GMT · 21:30 CE
☆ BRIGHTEST BLESSINGS! ☆
The first spark of life in the earth marks the start of spring planting season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Join me for a Circle Dance in celebration of IMBOLC w/an eclectic mix of seasonal tunes to welcome the light.

All Ages Welcome. Any era attire. No skyclad pls.

#SecondLife #WheelOfTheYear #VirtualWorlds

🌎 your gentle breeze: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Laserlight/78/114/1002

Sunday Reflection

In the last few months, I’ve been trying to make a shift from eight pagan holidays to eight pagan seasons. The holidays are part of that, but I wanted to stop plucking them out from the Wheel and having one day stand for the whole period.

It’s filling something in my soul to be doing this. I’ve been making the mental shift into a new season about three weeks before the holiday, slightly less than the same length of time as an advent calendar in December. Three weeks gives me time to prepare, to think about how I want to celebrate this year, to sit with the season before it blossoms, observing the small motions toward it.

Then the holiday, and I’ve always had more complete celebrations for some of the Wheel of Year touchpoints, and fewer for others. After 30+ years of being pagan, I figure that there’s no year I have to have it all figured out. I can create, change or discard aspects as feels right. Imbolc for me is the time of year where you first start to notice that the sun is coming up earlier, so welcoming the expansion of sunlight grounds a lot of my celebration.

But it doesn’t end when the day is over. The season of Imbolc then lasts until three weeks before the next festival, so until the start of March. That’s a month to be present in the continuing Imbolc spirit without feeling pressure to do specific things. It’s a time to sit with where the year is, to be present in the present. It gives me space to continue to be curious about the ripples of Imbolc-tide I see when I take the time to pay attention.

#wheeloftheyear #pagan

We are whiling away the winter alternating between venturing out to see our friends, and staying inside and bundled up against the cold. Too much of either pole sends us flying to the other - after time out, we want to stay home. After time home, we crave the warmth of other people. Everything seems paused while it sits under heavy blankets of snow - yet in other parts of the world, the cold is accompanying unrest and rising authoritarianism. While the sun is returning, the state of the world is less certain. Everything feels fragile as we wait for the thaw that is, as yet, nowhere in sight. At Imbolc, we’ll celebrate in ways that remind us of warmth, of the ability to build and craft, of the community that can come from the skilful weaving of words to create connection, of the need for shared rest and healing between times of hard work.

The Wheel of the Year reminds us that no season lasts forever, that where we are now is not where we’ll be, and that is both unsettling and comforting. Soon it will be time to poke our heads outside our doors with renewed energy and engagement, and look to see if spring is in the horizon or if the winter will linger longer.

#wheeloftheyear #pagan

Weekly Reflection

One week into January and I can feel the pull towards Imbolc. When the nights started to lengthen, I welcomed the time of less sensory input, more quiet time to think. I feel like I still need that - work continues to be constant triage, no time to plan and reflect, at a time when planning and reflection are desperately needed, and an innate part of this section of the Wheel of the Year.

But I’m also tired of getting up in the dark and making it all the way to the bus for my commute before the sun even thinks about peeking over the horizon. I’m not ready for it to be spring quite yet, but I am ready for the first noticeable signs that the tide has been turned and the days are getting longer again. The time around Imbolc should be so full of rest that I start to get antsy, a little bored, craving the feeling of the sun on my face and the moment when I can shed jackets and feel the wind on my arms.

Personally, I’m still a little out of sync with that, too harried and overworked to get bored and let the drive to do things build up until it breaks the dam of winter lassitude and sweeps me into spring as new life bursts from the earth and the branches.

That’s still down the road, and in this Imbolc-tide, I still have the time to relax in the darkness and try to find my way into the rhythm of the year.

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqzpBb6QPi8

A little late for #yule, but we are arguably still in the #yuletide season. I found this beautiful #song on #youtube and thought I would share it.

The #oakking and #hollyking lore is part of many #neopagan traditions. Here's some info about it here:

https://www.learnreligions.com/holly-king-and-the-oak-king-2562991

#pagan #yule #wiccan #wheeloftheyear #darktolight

Last light on the shortest day at the western edge of the continent. Happy #solstice to all who celebrate the #WheelOfTheYear #SilentSunday

Blessed Yule, everyone.

#Yule #WheelOfTheYear #pagan #paganism

Wishing everyone a merry & blessed Yule.

#WheelOfTheYear #WinterSolstice #Yule #SeasonsGreetings

Happy Yule!

Yule Reflection - December 21, 2025

I was up about 50 minutes or so before sunrise this morning, so I sat on the couch wrapped in a blanket I’d made, and spent that time in contemplation of Yuletide, of this moment where we cease contraction and start stretching outward again as the days grow longer from here. It will be cold, and it will take until Imbolc to notice the quickening of the year, but this is the moment the tide turns.

I enjoyed this hour spent in silence, watching the light slowly enter the sky. It’s grey and cloudy, so it wasn’t a spectacular sunrise, but the sun returned nonetheless. It has been dark, and this year has been difficult personally and community-wide. But the Wheel of the Year reminds us that change is a constant, that where we are is not where we’ll be forever. Later today, I’ll build gingerbread houses with loved ones and feel warmed by connections, but I needed this moment to rest and let my mind reach out to greet the coming dawn. As the sunlight grows, I want both. More time for joy, more time for contemplation. To let go of what causes stress and find deeper ways of living my days in rhythm with the changing of the sun and the moon, the seasons and the days. In many ways, that means resisting and working around the world as it is, to make it kinder and more humane for everyone, to let us all be able to live at the pace we choose instead of breaking ourselves trying to keep pace with the inhumane demands of the present moment.

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan

6:30am SLT - 9:30am EST - 14:30 GMT - 15:30 EU

❄️ ~ Yuletide Blessings! ~ ❄️

Join me Sunday morning in welcoming the Winter Solstice with an eclectic mix of seasonal tunes as we dance around the fire in celebration. (note that this is NOT a ritual or faith event)

All Ages Welcome. Any era attire. No skyclad please. #SecondLife #VirtualWorlds #WheelOfTheYear

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Laserlight/77/108/1001

https://youtu.be/Fs7j8daV8-s
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