Happy Imbolc — Here’s A Pentagram
Paganism is not an organised religion by any means. For example, you get options as to what days a particular holiday falls on. In Paganism, there are (at least) eight holy days (nicknamed ’sabbats’) and today is one of them. Of course, you could’ve also celebrated it yesterday or the day before. I prefer today because I can combine it with Groundhog Day.
The Sabbat is called Imbolc — but that depends on which Pagan you talk to. It’s also known by other names like Imbolg, Oimelc, Bride’s Day or Candlemass. This is around the time that lambs are begin popping out of the ewes, which used to be a big deal in ancient times.
Also, some plants begin to grow around now, including wild garlic, bluebells and daffodils. Unless you live in the city and the only thing that seems to grow is adverts for Valentine’s Day. Anyway, the big deal is that the worst of the winter is over and spring will ome sooner rather than later.
For the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. This all goes out the window if you happen to live in Austrailia and are now getting ready for winter.
So, today, in honor of Imbolc, I thought I’d present some YouTube clips on the symbol of Paganism/Wicca/Whathaveya, the pentagram. If you put a pentagram in a circle, then it’s called a pentacle. First up is the Master of Disaster, the King of Pain, the Beast, Aleister Crowley in a very scratchy recording of his poetic take on just what a pentagram symbolizes:
Next up, is a clip combining two cultures in how to make pentagrams by means of Japanese origami:
And lastly, let’s groove to the music:
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