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    Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid's Day
    Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid's Day
    Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid's Day
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    Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid's Day

    By Carl F. Neal

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    Imbolc—also known as Brigid's Day—is a time to awaken from our months of introspection and start making plans for the future. This guide to the history and modern celebration of Imbolc shows you how to perform rituals and magic to celebrate and work with the energy of the re-awakening earth.

    • Rituals
    • Recipes
    • Lore
    • Spells
    • Divination
    • Crafts
    • Correspondences
    • Invocations
    • Prayers
    • Meditations

    Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateDec 8, 2015
    ISBN9780738746487
    Author

    Carl F. Neal

    Carl Neal has been a student of incense since 1977. In 1995 he became a professional incense maker and has avidly researched incense ever since. He eventually set aside his retail incense business and focused on bringing an expanded awareness of incense to everyone who would read or listen. Networking with incense makers and users from around the world has given him a very different view of incense. He is a self-professed incense fanatic who has been lucky enough to learn from a variety of incense makers from North and South America, Asia, and Europe. He has traveled across America leading incense workshops and discussions. He has been a frequent guest at Pagan festivals and gatherings where he spreads his enthusiasm for incense with vigor. A strong supporter of community, Carl loves teaching about incense at all sorts of community events. Carl holds bachelor degrees in History and Sociology. He currently lives in the beautiful Willamette Valley in Western Oregon.

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    • 5/5
      I liked this volume more than the Yule one, mostly because it remained pretty firmly fixed in Brigid lore, rather than being spread across a broader variety of cultures. This gives it a depth- although I also appreciate a broader approach!Imbolc is a quiet festival, and the crafts and rituals described work well for it.I will mention that in re recipes, one is for making butter; it would have been helpful to many people to be informed that ultrapasteruized cream will NOT make butter, no matter what you do. Often that is the only kind of cream available! But that failure is NOT an omen! it's due to the processes.Mildly recommended, and I will likely get more in the series.
    • 4/5
      Good book. Very informational with lots of detailed rituals and wonderful explanations
    • 4/5
      This book was better than I expected, and that's always a good thing. I wasn't sure how much I'd get out of it, as Imbolc is not a sabbat I've ever had all that much affinity for. Happily, this book covers a range of situations. It starts by describing what may be the typical climate of the UK in early February, but acknowledges that the reader may be in a different climate (yeah, if the ground near me is thawing at Imbolc, that's more a sign of climate change than of spring). So while there's plenty of discussion of nature-related ways to celebrate Imbolc, there are also several mentions of the themes of this sabbat—new beginnings, starting to sort out what goals you wish to pursue in the year ahead, cleaning/purification—that aren't necessarily tied to the temperature outside. Imbolc follows the same outline as other books in Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials, with sections on old and new ways of observing the sabbat, and chapters on spells and divination, recipes and crafts, and prayers and invocations. There are also three rituals, one each for a solitary practitioner, a couple, and a group. It wraps up with a section on correspondences for Imbolc, and a bibliography for further research. I thought the Old Ways section was a bit of a hodgepodge, going from commentary on how harsh winter was to our ancestors to a discussion of Brigid, then to a list of other cultures' holidays that happen to fall at this time of year. The New Ways section seemed nicely practical, including an in-depth explanation of how to plant seeds as part of a ritual. This is a good guide to Imbolc, and encourages readers to tweak their celebrations to make the sabbat truly personal.

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