February Fires & First Fruits From Imbolc to Lunar New Year and the Living Traditions In Between
February is not an empty month.
It’s a time of milk returning to the pail,
candles lit against the cold,
homes cleansed for what comes next,
and new years beginning under a different moon.
In this episode of Old Ways New Days, we explore February’s holidays and holy days—from Imbolc’s dairy and fire, to folk traditions of purification, to fertility rites, and the Lunar New Year’s ancestral renewal.
Different cultures.
Shared survival.
The same human instinct to prepare for spring.
If you’ve felt February tugging at you—quietly asking you to tend, to clean, to hope—this episode is for you…
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