Imbolc Ideas and Activities
- Add a circle of white candles to the altar set up. Empower each one for a goal you would like to achieve this year.
- Banish winter by burning paper snowflakes.
- Empower ice to banish negativity, as the ice melts, the negativity will drain. Pour the water off your property.
- Plant a seed to be cared for indoors, or buy an indoor plant and make friends!
- Bless your pet and give him/her an amulet to wear on their collar, or place in a safe area on top of their cage (for smaller animals).
- Purify the house with a blessing ritual.
- In ritual, offer milk to the gods by pouring it on the ground or leave in a bowl for animals.
- Do a vision quest / meditation on the wolf totem.
- Imbolc is a fire festival falling in the fixed astrological air sign of Aquarius. The magick you do during this time will have longer lasting effects. Uranus(modern astrology) and Saturn(classical astrology) bring the ability to make sudden changes, reach forewards, and learn to interact with authority figures.
- Place 3 ears of corn on the door as a sign of the Triple Goddess and leave until Ostara.
- Make Bride's Bed. Click here for instructions and other Lammas crafts.
- On Imbolc Eve, leave buttered bread in a boel indoors for faeries who travel with the lady of Greenwood. Next day throw it outside for the animals as the essence will have been removed.
- Light a white candle and burn sandle wood.
- Cleanse your altar area, both literaly and magickaly.
- Perform a self cleansing ritual using the elements.
- Make dream piilows for everyone in your family.
- Decorate your sabbat circl with white flowers.
- Burn rosemary and bay.
- Use benzoin pr vanilla incense.
- At sun set light a candle in every room in the house in honor of the sun's growing strength.
- If theres snow on the ground, walk outside for a while and draw a sun in the snow.