Candlemas is the time of the “quickening” of the energy of the new year, when the life force is beginning to return and the seed sprouts.
The Hopi literalize this holiday by sprouting seeds in the Kiva’s, and some traditions say that the snakes come up above the ground at this time. I’d like to link this metaphorically to the female “snake-power” or Kundalini energy, recognizing that as the life force returns with the longer hours of daylight and sunshine, our sexuality and healing energies begin to become enlivened.
We start to hope for spring, and indeed this holiday in America is called Groundhog Day, Feb. 2nd, and has as its prophetic legacy the groundhog, seeing shadow or not, and thereby determining whether we will have an early or a late spring.
Motherpeace cards attuned to this holiday are, first and foremost, the Strength card, which is an image of the red haired Irish Brigid on her fairy mound with her shamanic animal helpers and the “heat that heals” coming out of her left hand.- excerpt from Making Ritual with Motherpeace cards
*This is a great time to burn incense to cleanse your space of any negative energies or obstacles…
Be sure to open some windows maybe even crack a door… You can open cabinets and drawers as well. Think of this as a deep cleanse time to rid yourself of anything you might be holding onto before the Chinese Medicine season of Wood Element arrives 2/4.
Use this time between now and then to start the year anew leaving behind anything that no longer serves you for the greatest and highest good.
Peace & Light,
*Jacqueline Albert Pepper
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