January 31: Sacred Space

Everything is quiet and dark. We're looking forward to the sound of rain on the roof.

The land is happy we're here. I could feel it as I parked in the lot for this weekend celebration for Imbolc. Everyone is friendly, helpful and fr one After settling in on this 15-acre festival grounds, I finally had time to pull my card for the day. It was the 8 of Earth, which in my deck is a circle of trees at the quarters and cross-quarters with a circle of water in the middle of this grassy expanse. It screams sacred space. And yes, this place is sacred.

As I was walking back from the pot luck, a crew was preparing the earth in the circle where a ritual will take place in the morning ... for which I should have been asleep an hour ago.

Sweet dreams.