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Imbolc 2025: Welcoming Back The Light

  • Friday, February 07, 2025
  • 5:00 PM
  • Sunday, February 09, 2025
  • 5:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom

Registration

  • Deadline for away box registration is Sunday 1/26, by 10 AM EST.

    Recommended donation is $20 to cover the cost of materials/shipping, but pay as you can! (Sourcing materials costs around $10, and shipping varies by location between $7 and $10)
  • For those who do not wish for an away box, but still wish to attend! Register for updates, links, and communication about the event.
  • We'll do our best to send you your away box in time for the event, but the Shipping Gods may not agree.

    Recommended donation is $20 to cover the cost of materials/shipping, but pay as you can! (Sourcing materials costs around $10, and shipping varies by location between $7 and $10)
Register

Join us for our Annual Virtual Imbolc Celebration

Imbolc occurs at a time when we have been holed up against the winter chill for months- resting, preparing, and staying warm. Imbolc allows us to honor and embrace the quiet of the season; to mend items we will use in warmer weather, brighten and clean our homes, and begin to welcome back the light and fire of spring. 

Come join us for a weekend of connection over candlelight. We will share the skills and crafts that bring us through the winter, reflect upon our space and ourselves, lay plans for the coming thaw, and look forward to spring on the horizon! Also sing songs, drink tea, and hang out- like we always love to do.

Event Details

The event will run virtually from Friday February 7 at 5pm to Sunday February 9 at 4pm. All times are EST.

Registration for the event can include an away box, which will contain tokens and treats for ritual and workshop throughout the weekend! Register before January 26th to give us time to mail your away box. The recommended donation is $20 to cover our fees, but payment is optional based on your ability. If you would like to donate more to help cover the cost of the event for others, donations are always welcome and deeply appreciated.

If you would not like an away box, we will provide a list of items you can gather to participate.

Schedule

Friday Activity Description
5:00 PM Social Space Opens Ease into the event by greeting your friends! Bring a craft, a beverage, and wind down from the week to get into the headspace of Imbolc
6:00 PM Dinner Discussion Grab your dinner and join us for a guided discussion on grounding practices.
7:30 PM Opening Ritual
8:00 PM 5 Herbs For Spring Health and Wellness Looking at 5 different herbs that are used in tea, we will discuss how each of these herbs can be used to support our bodies in the spring of the year with common challenges including stress, sleep support, and vitamin deficiencies brought on by the winter months.
9:00 PM Streaming the Stars (weather pending), into
Bardic Circle: Night, the Moon, and Winter		 Bardic circle featuring the Moon!
Leo will lead us through a fascinating tour of the sky. We'll be checking out the moon using the SeeStar S50, sharing high quality images and discussing celestial bodies.
Our lunar close up will transition into bardic circle, where we share songs and tales (loosely) themed around the moon, the night, and the cold quiet of winter. Bring a song, story, joke, or poem to share around the circle. Submissions under 5 minutes, please.
10:00 PM Online Game Fun games over Zoom that everyone can enjoy!
11:00 PM Dice Racing With dice and ingenuity, we will have a virtual race and everyone is welcome to join in!
12:00 AM Late Night Youtube Exchange Connect with your virtual community and share the videos you love. Bring your favorite links and let's enjoy them together!
Saturday Activity Description
9:00 AM Coffee/Tea Together Grab your beverage and meal of choice and start the day with us on Zoom.
10:00 AM Spring Cleaning! Join for some shared "spring cleaning" time, and bring whatever task that means for you- park your Zoom device in front of laundry, a room you want to declutter, a pile of papers you've been meaning to sort, whatever you want to improve upon. We'll encourage each other in our projects, celebrate, and leave our spaces a little better.
11:00 AM Cookalong Ritual A ritual to feed the soul and body! Together we will cook a Stone Soup: each looking a little different than the other, but all to share together. (No Rocks Required)
12:00 PM Lunch Break Sharing our soup and our stories
1:00 PM House Plant Skillshare & Indoor Plants 101 Keeping the green in our homes throughout the winter! Bring your houseplant knowledge, or problems, and we will skillshare and talk about how we care for our favorite plants. Plant tours encouraged. Beginners very welcome!
2:00 PM Candle Magic Workshop Talking about the candle magic we will do during main ceremony and about how to do candle magic. Bring your own knowledge and experiences to share!
3:00 PM Embroider a Trilithon! Are you an experienced Stitch Witch? Or have you never stitched before? All are welcome to come learn as we embroider a trilithon together, learning as we go, practicing patience and working with intention.
4:00 PM Discord 101 Are you Discord-savvy, or want some tips and tricks? SCC has a Discord for planning gatherings and sharing our day-to-day lives throughout the year, but new platform can be tricky. This workshop will take you through what Discord is, how to use it, how to get the most out of the SCC Discord.
5:00 PM Faerie Market: Virtual Tour of our Community Vendors Join us in a window shopping adventure to explore the creations of the makers and crafters of our community. Vendors will show off what they've got, and we'll share community vendors who aren't present as well. Walkins welcome!
6:00 PM Dinner Break
7:00 PM Ritual A candle magic ceremony to foster and grow our hopes and dreams for Spring.
8:00 PM Bardic Circle: Growth and Spring
(Streaming the Stars rain date)		 Bardic circle featuring the Growth and the coming Spring! We will go around our virtual circle sharing songs and tales (loosely) themed around the growth, plants, and the coming spring. Bring a song, story, joke, or poem to share around the circle. Submissions under 5 minutes, please.

If weather didn't permit stargazing at yesterday's bardic we will start bardic with it tonight.
9:00 PM Propagating Common House Plants Share your love of plants with others by propagating your house plants. We will look at leaf, vine, and shoot propagations that are very common ways to split your plants you already have growing in your home so you can share your green bounty with friends and family year round.
10:00 PM Groundhog Day streaming Join for a group watchalong of the 1993 classic Groundhog Day
Sunday Activity Description
9:00 AM Coffee/Tea Together Grab your beverage and meal of choice and start the day with us on Zoom.
10:00 AM Planting by the Signs Topical Astrologer Leo explores the seasons, sharing how to plan what to plant when while looking to the moon, the sun, and their movements through the year. Use the art of prediction to help you sow what you hope to reap this year.
11:00 AM Digital Security 101 VPNs? Incognito? Phishing? Do you have questions or concerns about digital security? Join for tips and advice on how to best keep your network and activity as secure as possible.
12:00 PM Lunch Break Divining discussion
1:00 PM Guided Discussion About Facing Our Current Political Landscape A space to acknowledge the difficult times we are all in. In a facilitated group discussion, we can share our plans and strategies for how to shore ourselves up for the future.
2:00 PM Crafting Corner This casual crafting time is a great opportunity work on some projects while we catch up with old friends. Bring your own projects or check out what projects others are working on.
3:00 PM Closing Ritual


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