For me January is a time of rest. I don’t want to do, I just want to be. I want to look inward I’m not ready to look outward. By January I will know what I don’t want to take into the new calendar year but feel uncertain about what I want to bring in or achieve. Around Imbolc I feel a shift in the air, a shift of energy and I know I am ready to look ahead, make plans and start doing.
Around Imbolc we see the first signs of new life returning to the land, the first buds beginning to appear and the first flowers of spring show themselves. This brings the promise of future growth, hope and inspiration. It is a time of renewal and awakening.
I feel the desire to physically clean and refresh my home. I also feel it's important to do an energetic cleanse of my living space and myself to clear the stagnant energies of the winter months.
For my living space I find fresh scents are what I am called to use. Essential oil vaporisers in the form of a room spray or essential oils in an oil burner. I love to have a piece of selenite in my space. Selenite is very cleansing and purifying. It draws out negative energies and clears blocked stagnant energy.
For my personal cleanse I like to use a selenite wand to do a body sweep before a cleansing shower or bath. For my shower or bath I like to use Himalayan salt for its cleansing energies or one of my favourite elemental soaps either connected to water or air. Water to cleanse emotions or air to cleanse my mind.
Today I will be making myself a cup of cleansing tea and spending time thinking about what I want to grow and nurture in my life. What are you inspired to do ?