Winter is soon to come to end when Imbolc (Gaelic meaning ewe’s milk) occurs on February 1st. After a long, hard winter, the first signs of spring are born in birthing sheep and the first feeding of the infant lambs. It was said that the goddess Brigit traveled the countryside with her companion, a red-eared white cow, to unveil her mantle of green across the land at this time.
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Wolf Moon January
January 15th, 2008 
Tim January’s Wolf Moon calls to mind our wolf brothers and sisters whose howl in the silence of moonlit Winter stirs us. As people huddled around the hearth to remain warm at this, the coldest time of Winter, the wolf could be heard howling in the distance as he came closer to man in search of food. The approach of the wolf rouses us from our quiet and contemplative time of inner work that has been our focus.
