💕Imbolc is a pagan holiday celebrated from February 1 through sundown February 2. Based on a Celtic tradition, Imbolc was meant to mark the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
💕The celebration of Imbolc dates back to the pre-Christian era in the British Isles. The earliest mentions of Imbolc in Irish literature were found in the 10th century. Poetry from that time relates the holiday to ewe’s milk, with the implication of purification.
💕It’s been speculated that this ritual stems from the breeding cycle of sheep and the beginning of lactation. The holiday was traditionally aligned with the first day of spring and the idea of rebirth.
💕Imbolc celebrations took the form of a festival in honor of the pagan goddess Brigid, who was evoked in fertility blessings and oversaw poetry, crafts and prophecy. Brigid was worshipped by the Filid, a class of poets and historians among the Celts of ancient Ireland and Britain.
Today it’s celebration are:
🖤Gather your items for seeding, planting and preparing for your spring gardens.
At the same time look within you and begin to seed change. To look at what needs to go and what no longer serves you.
🖤Cleanse your home. Welcome a new year with letting go of things no longer needed and rearrange your home. Sweep it out and complete a spiritual cleanse.
Look within and cleanse the parts that needs to be released. Begin your healing process. Allow rebirth in your mind, body & soul.
🖤During Imbolc take a break from social media and allow enlightenment without distractions. Be present in the celebrations.
Acknowledge what are your influences. Acknowledge what no longer serves you. Begin to make positive changes to allow a higher vibration.
🖤Honour the warrior that lives inside of you. Allow it to bring you strength, courage and resilience.
Create a journal that concentrates on manifestation in guidance of the lunar cycle. Begin your rebirth journey into a new refreshing year of harvesting.
Cleansing ritual to eliminate negativity
How to begin self reflections & healing with a spring clean:
💕When you’re looking at creating a space, cleansing space & eliminating the negativity that surrounds you….. you need to always look within you first.
💕You need to look internally, and heal yourself.
💕Because if you are not in love with yourself, you are not able to love others in a genuine & unbiassed way. As their will never be enough and you will always question their love but not if you love yourself cause that will always be enough.
💕If love does not begin with you: those moments, those trips, those friendships, those relationships, those things that you purchase….. will only sustain your happiness for small moments and you will be back where you started.
💕Begin with finding gratitude each morning & each night, journal your thoughts of positivity, and let go of the things that no longer fits you.
💕We are all able to find happiness within us, but it must start with us. We are the magic. We are the founders of our happiness.
💕This is something you need to work towards daily.
💕Eliminate those illusions through the shows you watch & the people you follow…. Everyone behind the curtains has a story you do not know about. Be honest with yourself and do the WORK!
Sharing knowledge helps us develop our own spirituality, healing and higher vibrations!
My spiritual journey manifested during my disappointment in never birthing a child. I had to turn to myself and find the strength to stay true to ME.
Once I started on this journey in depth, I started dreaming of my experiences with my Avos. When I was a child I didn’t acknowledge the magick my Avos empowered within their daily routines! They always created a magickal garden full of nutritional foods and medicine that they used in their cooking each day.
They created tinctures to heal wombs, cuts, colds and moments of sadness. They also used tinctures to ward off evil entities, warding off negativity, cleansing space, and seeing the future.
During the early 1800s these tinctures/ powders/potions were seen as witchcraft and many women were set on fire for practicing. As we have all learned that FEAR is the driving force of many of these atrocious!
I didn’t really understand the magick my ancestors displayed until later in my life journey. My mom displayed these gifts throughout her journey and I learned from her.
My ability to run a household in a mgickal spiritual flow was adapted through my mother. My mother is connected to mother earth, plants, soil & grounding. It lives within her soul, spirit & mind.
Those gifts shine through in my gardening, cooking, seeding, grounding & spirituality. My bliss of the world is seen through the colours of flowers.
My witch side has grown stronger in its connection to mother earth, grounding & connecting. It balances my spirit, which reminds me to always pick kindness even in darkness.
Creating smokebundles allows me to use the sacredness of my herbs, flowers and plants. I can feel my plants, hear my flowers sing, and my trees strength.
I have grown in my relationship among my plant ally’s and connect in witnessing their colours, shape & smells.
I become connected to natures life, six years ago. My trip alone to Turkey/England & Scotland. My soul was roaring and its vibration spoke to nature. Since than, I have held butterflies, touched the back of a bumblebee, petted a wild deer, and am gifted with random animals on my drives.
It’s magical when you are able to tap into the things around you as you do in a human experience. I am honoured, I am gifted, I am happy for the mystic powers developed with our Mother Earth.
In Portugal many witches that were herbalists their intentions were meant to manifest lightness. To help others find hope, dreams, that would heal their spirits.
Being a green witch allows me to be open, to be light, and battle darkness. You build your intuition, and trust in who you are. The universe begins to Empower you when you open up To the universe through grounding & connecting.
I hope to continue in my learning of plant medicine, herbs, plants, seeds & flowers. I adore gardening. Are you aware when you play with soil it ignites your serotonin to release and battles depression.
My garden is my heart as it finds peace, calmness, happiness and healing moments.
I encourage all of you to begin understanding your moon-phases and plant to its cycles and witness its magick. The moon gives your gardens strength, psychic abilities, and strengthens intuitions.
Keep attention as your walk and see all the magick around you!
Mantras
Mantra for today:
“I call upon the energies of protection, may all be well…. I called upon the energies of peacefulness, may all be well… I call upon the energies of positivity, may all be well….blessed be me, blessed be thee. All is well under the moonlight.”
Sharing some plant medicine magick:
🌿Dandelion: provides shielding energy and also clears away the negative.
🌿Marigold: helps you to communicate with the spirit world and those who have passed on.
🌿Clover: will guard against misfortune and invite good fairies into your life.
We get through these months so quickly. We have reached this magickal moment of writing to those who need some uplifting! I hope you will join me in writing beautiful love letters!
ED
“I am asking that letters be sent to my grandpa, Ed. He spent the last 61 years married to his best friend and losing her was harder than words can express,” shares Ed’s granddaughter.
In mid-September, Ed turned 80. Right after his birthday, Grandma started declining rapidly. When Grandma was diagnosed with early onset dementia 8 years ago, Grandpa never left her side trying new doctors, experimental medications, and support groups. They have always been best friends and taken care of one another as well as family and friends. I even wrote a personal essay about their love story which got me accepted to college.
On October 5th, I knew I wanted to nominate Grandpa. I sat by my grandma’s bed and explained to her what More Love Letters is all about. I asked her if this was something we should nominate Grandpa for because he will miss her so much when she is gone. All grandma could do was raise her eyebrows, but I know she could hear me and would love for everyone to support her Ed.
Cards have always meant a lot to my grandparents. They taught me that love should be shared with everyone which is exactly why I have been writing cards for MLL every month since 2017 when I learned about the organization. I have a stack of cards saved from my grandparents that started in my grandma’s cursive and as her dementia progressed shifted to my grandpa’s handwriting. I got a card in the mail the first of October wishing me and my husband a happy wedding anniversary. The card was even signed ‘Grandma and Grandpa.’ Through it all, they never missed an opportunity to celebrate others.
My 4th wedding anniversary was October 6th and this was also the morning my grandma passed away while holding my grandpa’s hand. Words of encouragement would mean so much to him right now. Ed is actively involved in the church that he and my grandma went to their entire married life as well as being in a bowling league and a golf league. However, while Grandma was her sickest, he kept saying, I don’t know what I am going to do without her. Sending him a card would mean so much to me, our family, and my grandma who is smiling down on him now.”
PLEASE MAIL ALL LETTERS TO:
Ed’s bundle
℅ Megan M.
8300 Seaview Drive
Chesterfield, VA 23838
USA
Please drop all letters in the mail by November 30, 2022
TALI
Tali’s mom celebrates her “wonderful, creative, intelligent, funny, and sensitive” daughter.
“Tali is 24 years old but has had a devastating breakdown and decline over the past four years. A few years back she graduated from college with a distinction in Performing Arts and Musical Theatre. She had good friends and was beginning to expand into creating a life for herself, but she suffered trauma and fell apart. She developed OCD and complex PTSD and even stopped eating for a while. She is now just beginning to try to do things she enjoys again and desperately wants connection and to feel competent and have a sense of purpose again.
She has so much to offer – a deep love of animals and a passion for social justice issues, a brilliantly creative mind for writing, art, cookery, and crafts, and a great love of literature and theatre. She’s a fiercely loyal and devoted friend and a delightful family member. She’s brave and determined but suffers from loneliness, isolation, exhaustion, frustration (with her PTSD symptoms), and sometimes depression. Most days she just can’t see an end to her suffering and needs to know she really deserves to be happy and have a life she loves.”
Please write and show Tali how loved she is.
PLEASE MAIL ALL LETTERS TO:
Tali’s bundle
℅ Tanya M.
Riverdale
Top Road
Trefriw
LL27 OJU
Wales
UK
Please drop all letters in the mail by November 30, 2022
MICHAEL
“Michael is suffering and needs support.” says his mother.
“He was injured at birth, and as a result, one of his arms is partially paralyzed and atrophied from the elbow to the hand. This never stopped him from doing anything in life – he joined cub scouts, led the school talent shows, he even joined a little league. He is brilliantly smart and excelled in school where he was beloved by many.
In junior high and high school that all changed. He went through the perfect storm of feeling self-conscious about his disability, not choosing the best friends, being bullied, not excelling academically, fighting with his father, breaking up his family through divorce, and moving out of his childhood home. He gave up on himself and escaped into video games. His friends went off to jobs and college and he stayed home and played games. He doesn’t believe that he is still the smart, capable, adaptable person he was throughout childhood.
He was an inspiration to others then and he can still be that today. He has no direction in life and no belief in himself. He needs the support of others besides his mother to let him know that no matter where we find ourselves we can always start again.”
Let’s write to Michael because, as his mother reminds us all, “there is always a way to find our path and be happy in life.”
PLEASE MAIL ALL LETTERS TO:
Michael’s bundle
℅ Diana W.
3306 E. Yorba Linda Blvd
#381
Fullerton CA 92831
USA
Please drop all letters in the mail by November 30, 2022
CLAUDIA
Mothers are some of the strongest people we know. Claudia’s daughter shares her mother’s story who is going through a difficult time in her life.
“My mother recently divorced my father after 25 years together. He was mentally, physically, and verbally abusive, so in the end, this was the right choice. However, my father was the only person my mother has ever seriously dated. They met when she was 18, dated for three months, and then my mother got pregnant with me. Life kept moving – as it does – and before my mom knew it she was stuck in a relationship with an abusive narcissist, who also had an addiction and three daughters. The trauma that we all endured in that household has unfortunately now shaped who we each are as people and gave us a warped sense of self-worth.
Despite the pain that my mother had to go through, she managed to start a successful business without a college degree, raise three college-educated daughters, go back to school and earn her bachelor’s degree and eventually grow a business that brings in mid-six-figures every year – practically all on her own. She is also selfless, loving, smart, kind, giving, genuine, and overall a great person. I’m not just saying that because she is my mother, but I think there are lots of people who could truly speak to the integrity of her character. My mom’s kindness made up for any of the selfishness and pain we received from my father.
In these few months following the divorce, it has become more and more difficult for my mother to truly see what an amazing person she is. She is filled with self-doubt, regret, and pain from a marriage that left her broken. Lately, she has been in a deepening pit of despair, barely able to keep up with work and constantly crying. We’re all in therapy and we also constantly reassure her that leaving was the right choice and that she is an amazing, kind, and fulfilled person of value, but I know that she sometimes finds it impossible to see this in herself. I think that maybe some extra encouragement, even from strangers, would help her to see the love and treatment she deserves.”
Letters are welcome in English and Spanish
PLEASE MAIL ALL LETTERS TO:
Claudia’s bundle
℅ Isabella P.
212 East 25th Street
Apt. LE
New York, NY 10010
USA
Please drop all letters in the mail by November 30, 2022
A month filled with mystical, magickal moments through the connection of spirit. Through our harvesting season we connect with the earth in a gratitude manner. You appreciate the food you are able to source. You begin cutting, sealing and packaging your fruits of labour… to be stored for the winter season soon upon us. To have witnessed a seed turn into seedling into a plant and than food is a mystical moment.
In these moments, I am reminded of our ancestors and of their knowledge passed down to us. We are always connecting to the land in a holistic way. The soil that you touch helps ignite your hormones to produce your serotonin, which in-turn helps manage depression.
We are able to grow our own medicines through plant medicine all there for you to reconnect and learn and connect with the magick among mother nature. Mother nature is here for us all no matter race as we each are a part of this land.
Bringing us towards the celebration of Samhain which honours ancestral love, land connection and new beginnings. Before we get deep into this stage of the wheel… let us acknowledged this beautiful season called fall. Look around and take notice of the bright red tops of the trees that shines among our bright sun, which gives our sunsets a golden red/pink. These are moments to cherish!
To see nature gathering their foods, storing and eating so they can hibernate for the winter. I often see squirrels digging through my soil to hide their nuts, and each morning they arrive again to dig them out and eat! Though they make such a mess it is a pleasure to witness their work!! They add to our ecosystem and keep the cycle of nature moving.
I am in love with the sound of the wind and its dance, as you connect your body to the wind around you, you move in a dance, as the trees sway with the winds present.
When you get up and take that brisk walk it heals you and calms your thought as nature heals. Begin to give mother mature your attention and your views will never be the same!!!
The beauty of the sky embraces your smile, the forest heals your soul, the flowers cheer up your heart and the animals keep you grounded.
