Think a bit more about How it would feel If that thing Were different somehow A deep breath or two Might seem like Too little And so you do so Anyway Tapping your fingers And filling your lungs In and out In and out Journal it away Put it away Save it now for Another session You say An objection arises Ten breaths in And then you’re once More back again Forces unseen Conspire with lack Of sleep and food and drink You take care of that It will make more sense As time goes by W

For many witches, Imbolc is the first day of spring, and also a kind of new year—one that I personally believe is better for the psyche....

One resolution I feel cool, calm, and collected about this year is my intent to observe and more thoroughly understand each of the eight sabbats on the wheel of the year. Sabbats are festivals and ceremonies commonly celebrated by many pagan people marking the waxing and waning of Earth’s cycles of death and rebirth. Scholarly pagans suggest these ancient pre-Christian festivals and ceremonies marked cycles in nature as well as farming and agriculture. I’m somewhat well acqua