Bodyfulness — Seattle Nia with Dina

This week we celebrate the coming of the light,
and the Celtic Goddess Brigid, pictured here.

This is one of my favorite times of year in Seattle. If you have some time, I highly recommend visiting the winter garden at the Washington Park Arboretum. It smells like Spring!

Imbolc (poem by: Neeltje & Paul Hoftijzer)

“Many gray veils, wrapped up, a old wish woman,
mother earth in winter plumage.
this is the moment…

the sun rises,
a sky in all the colors of cold and silence.
a flame of warmth breaks, cuts through fog and rags.
this is the moment…

unbreakable rare, it pokes upwards,
bud of snow and spring green: the young bride.
as for ever, endlessly nourished by the first ray of the sun.
this is the moment…

I hear in the stable the birth bleating,
weeping the feast song on mother earth…
this is the moment…”