icourtland!

my energy level is still far too high from last night’s celebration. my nervous energy has transformed through ritual and loving friendship into that strange kind of “tired and happy but can not for the life of me find sleep” that seems to creep in after a good turn of the wheel.

a double-blessed night for sure. in our main ritual last night to celebrate Imbolc, three of our priestesses invoked Brigid and did a fire gazing oraclular for our community and for some individuals as Goddess called them. some quite moving things were said – one of the ones that really got to me was about using that fire within. that strong fire that is our will and our strength can be used for so many things, it can create weapons, but it can also create tools. it can be used to destroy, but also to create. and if a tool or a weapon has been made that no longer server, the fire can reforge it into something that will. so many weapons have been forged in this world that are no longer needed, and it is up to us to use our own fires to force a change in that. time for us as magickal beings to institute change, to learn and to teach about creation and not destruction.

our second great work for the night was to have the current priestesses of the coven to welcome in the new initiated for the year. i am honored to be a part of that group. it took some time to welcome in all 14(!) of us, but the energy was amazing, as is the company i am initiated with. we start this new path as individuals, but have come together in a strong and loving circle and are bound together by our vows and by love and family. i was asked to lead our own personal grounding before we met with the group at large, and the words just flowed from me. i truly am in the right place, at the right time and doing the right thing.

i am tired as all heck at the moment – but feeling amazing…