{"id":2352,"date":"2012-02-02T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2012-10-22T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:28:23","slug":"ground-candle-bolc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"Ground-Candle-Bolc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imbolc is the Cross-Quarter Day that falls at the beginning of February.\u00a0 In the Old Nature Religion it was called the \u201cQuickening of the Year.\u201d\u00a0 Like many ancient holidays it has attracted to itself a number of more recent celebrations.\u00a0 It was the Goddess Bride’s day, which became St. Brigid in Celtic Christianity. It was also Christianized as \u201cCandlemas\u201d and secularized as \u201cGroundhog Day.\u201d\u00a0 I believe that \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d contains a memory of telling the time of year by measuring shadows.\u00a0 (It\u2019s also a time when the gates open between the worlds and strange things can happen, like getting stuck in the day for a long time – long enough to learn how to be a different kind of human being.) Initially, I had no idea what this holiday was about.\u00a0 When I was trying to explain the Cross-Quarter Days to a friend whose birthday was August 1, I found myself talking about it as a cycle.\u00a0 Beltane, May 1, celebrates Spirit creating for itself a body, as the trees put on leaf, and the colored ribbons wind on the Maypole.\u00a0 Lammas, August 1, is a festival of the first harvest.\u00a0 Since it\u2019s also in the sign of Leo, fixed fire, I saw it as part of the creative process. You start with a malleable material, like clay, or bread dough, and shape it the way you want and then you have to cook it to make it keep its shape.\u00a0 Samhain (pronounced Sa-wain) is when Spirit frees itself from matter, and goes running through the streets dressed as ghosts and goblins and demanding tribute.\u00a0 So if Spirit incarnates at Beltane, and fixes its form at Lammas, goes free of form at Samhain, what does it do at Imbolc?\u00a0 a change in matter at Lammas, what about a change in Spirit at Imbolc?\u00a0 A change in spirit would be an inspiration, a new form to give body to on the first of May.
\nFor more information, see Ground-Candle-Bolc posted February 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imbolc is the Cross-Quarter Day that falls at the beginning of February.\u00a0 In the Old Nature Religion it was called the \u201cQuickening of the Year.\u201d\u00a0 Like many ancient holidays it has attracted to itself a number of more recent celebrations.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circle-dance","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}