26/01/2026
This Brigid’s weekend and Imbolc feels different for me this year!
Normally, this is the time I love most in the Celtic year. The quiet stirrings. The first sparks of light. The remembering of devotion, ritual and tending the flame. And this year also marks ONE WHOLE YEAR of Cara Cabins being born into the world. There is so much here I could be holding!
But this year, I’ve made a conscious choice not to hold space.
Not because it doesn’t matter.
Not because the love isn’t there.
But because I’m learning something deeper about balance.
I’ve spent a long time giving, tending, creating containers, lighting the way for others. And Brigid, in all her wisdom, reminds us that the sacred flame must also be fed🙏🏼
A hearth that only gives warmth, without being tended, eventually burns out!
So this Imbolc, I am choosing to receive 💚
To be held, rather than to hold.
To rest at the hearth, rather than keep it burning for everyone else.
To let the waters soothe me, not just flow through me.
To honour initiation through softness, not service.
This feels deeply in devotion for me to Brigid who is goddess of healing, poetry, smithing and thresholds. She teaches us that creation requires both fire and rest, both effort and surrender. That rebirth doesn’t always come from doing more, but from allowing ourselves to be nourished.
So this year, my Imbolc ritual is simple:
I let myself be held.
And in that, I trust that the flame remains alive 🔥
P.S. there are so many amazing events going on that I’m so delighted to see especially with (definitely worth checking out)
