The only thing that is real, is love

These are challenging times, my loves.

AND they are hopeful, healing, inspiring and transformative times as well. 

We have just entered the Lunar New Year on January 29th in the intuitive, creative and wise energy of the Yin Wood Snake. On the same day we were greeted with the New Moon in Aquarius, a sign that brings focus to the collective, humanitarianism and dancing to the beat of our own drum. 

Today, we turn with the Wheel of the Year once more, with the traditional first day of spring at Imbolc, ushering in the subtle energy of new life. Although, in the Northern Hemisphere the ground below is still in a frozen grip and the surface above blanketed with white, life stirs within. Imbolc means “in the belly”. In the belly of Mother Earth where all life gestates, blooms that come forth in the months ahead begin to stir. For they know that soon the Sun will grow warmer, the days will continue to lengthen and we will be beckoned from our wintery hibernation to begin anew.

Imbolc is synonymous with Goddess Brigid - the Irish Goddess of hearth, healing, mid-wifery, creativity and metalsmith. Meaning the “exalted one”, Brigid awakened me to my priestess path almost a decade ago and continues to be present in my life when I am called to steep in her wisdom. She is an illuminated force of the creative spark that burns bright in all of us, the wise woman who knows how to tend to the deepest wounds and the guide for birthing new life into being. 

She is also known as the Goddess of love and compassion - and there is no doubt, we need so much of both right now. 

I am not talking about the romantic or sugary love that floats around this time of year in heart shaped balloons, red roses and set menus for two - I am talking about soul lifting, unconditional, DIVINE LOVE. This LOVE is our birthright. This LOVE is our true home. 

For in the end, the only thing that is real, is LOVE. 

Not the fear that is running rampant. Not the doubt that whispers in our ear.

Not the restrictive box that society says we should live within the walls of. 

DIVINE LOVE is our truth. 

DIVINE LOVE is our light in the dark. 

DIVINE LOVE is in all of us and is US.

May this Imbolc stir inside of you hope for better days, the spark of inspiration to give birth to the new and the LOVE to guide your way.