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Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 11:47:10 AM

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Happy Imbolc everyone,

and happy St. Bridgit's day,

happy candlemas,

happy groundhog day.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 11:52:22 AM

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Happy Candlemas to you also Fergus

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 12:29:40 PM

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<<this slave puts DOWN her bagpipes, wraps her bright Orange plaid around her shoulders and sits with Mist and fergus around the candlemas fire, slipping a flask to Mist and asking..."got milk?">>

Happy Holiday to All!!!

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 12:45:00 PM

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This Italian only knows what Grounhog day is. Care to elaborate on the others?

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 12:53:02 PM

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Glad someone put this here ~Candlemas/Imbolc Blessings~ to you all too! May your initiations & resolutions prove fruitful now & throughout the year!

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 1:11:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: Aileen68

This Italian only knows what Grounhog day is. Care to elaborate on the others?

Aileen, Imbolc is an old Celtic holiday celebrated still by Pagans of many different varieties.

Historically, it was a recognition of the time of year when the cows beging to give milk again, and how that is associated with nurturing motherhood. It is also a recognition of the returning sun (days starting to NOTICIBLY get longer) and its associations with the cyclical growth of masculine energy.

St. Bridgit's day is the Christainization of Imbolc under the Celtic church(Later to be subsumed by the Catholic Church), and the Irish associations of the Goddess Bridgit and motherhood. Candlemas is the non-Irish specific form of the holiday focusing on the practice of lighting candles to encourage the returning light.

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p.s. Groundhog day is a New World holiday .... there are no groundhogs in Europe ... but the early settlers brought with them the tradition of weather prediction by animal movements .... alas, there are no hedgehog's native to North America, so the groundhog was substituted.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 1:35:38 PM

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Thanks Fergus.
Happy, happy, happy then.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 3:11:22 PM

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/nods at Miss Beth and pulls out a flask of fresh milk...passing it around before lighting a candle

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 3:23:35 PM

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Merry Imbolc!
Bright Blessings to you all!

Edited to add: I had a big ritual planned for this morning, but good old morning sickness (combined with the flu) acted up. Hopefully I'll feel better before I go to bed tonight. This year's celebration is especially important to me, as my belly's been doing some growing of it's own.... four months and counting.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 3:58:24 PM

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p.s. Groundhog day is a New World holiday .... there are no groundhogs in Europe ... but the early settlers brought with them the tradition of weather prediction by animal movements .... alas, there are no hedgehog's native to North America, so the groundhog was substituted.

Thanks for the reminder, Fergus.

For me, Groundhog Day can only mean one thing: Ned Ryerson and ice sculpting with chainsaws.

Ok, that's two things.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 6:06:46 PM

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quote:

days starting to NOTICIBLY get longer

not this far North they don't

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 6:23:58 PM

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Happy my Peter is hard day......Finally

Thank God for 900 numbers!

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 6:53:39 PM

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Bright Blessings for Imbolc! I'm attending my first group ritual this saturday in celebration (with my local CUUPS chapter.) I'm sooo nervous, but then again, it is a time for new beginnings!

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 8:48:25 PM

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Fastlane ... That's ALWAYS a good reason to celibate

*celebrate ... I meant "celebrate".

HentaiGamerKitty ... Good luck and have fun :) CUUPS is a good organization.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 9:15:48 PM

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I know i could google it, but i am too lazy (yes I am feeling seriously lazy right now), so what does CUUPS stand for?

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 9:26:57 PM

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

I know i could google it, but i am too lazy (yes I am feeling seriously lazy right now), so what does CUUPS stand for?

Covenent of Universal Unitarian Pagans
http://www.cuups.org/

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 10:01:57 PM

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Happy , Happy and Happy to you too!

Today has special hapiness for me...as it marks the one year anniversary of the official & legal end of a four year divorce process for me.

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RE: Happy Imbolc! - 2/2/2006 10:16:04 PM

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Happy , Happy and Happy to you too!

Today has special hapiness for me...as it marks the one year anniversary of the official & legal end of a four year divorce process for me.

OOO That's a big emotional milestone! Congrats ;)

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