Imbolc - Creating New Pagan Family Traditions

Also known as Candlemas, Brigid's Fire, Oimelc, Lupercalia and—here in North America—Groundhog's Day, this Sabbat is celebrated on the 2nd of February. The rituals surrounding this day evoke light, fire, hearth, health, cleansing and crafting.
Though the nights have been getting shorter since Yule, it's only after Imbolc that it truly becomes noticeable. In some places, the weather has already begun to warm, with the first rains of spring melting snow and baring the earliest flowering buds.

A freelance editor and occasional writer, Jodi Lee has spent her entire life on the Canadian Prairies, which she credits for her over-active imagination. There could very well be a mosquito with a zombie virus just around the next corner!
Her fiction has appeared in Night to Dawn, Nocturnal Ooze and Necrotic Tissue, as well as numerous anthologies from several publishers. Her non-fiction has found many and varying outlets over the past decade.
After turning over the keys of Belfire Press to Bailey Hunter at Dark Recesses Press in 2017, Jodi has returned to writing non-fiction and is currently working on updating the Creating New Pagan Family Traditions series.