Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve

Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and misletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all
Wherewith ye dress’d the Christmas hall;
That so the superstitious find
No one least branch there left behind;
For look, how many leaves there be
Neglected there, maids, trust to me,
So many goblins you shall see.

-Robert Herrick

Candlemas Day, observed on February 2, has Imbolc as its ancestor and Groundhog Day as its offspring. To find out more about this cross-quarter day, click on Recommendations and Ideas under the Read tab above.

Rosie Pearson, RMT, ASAT™ C.O.R.E Educator is a Reiki Master Teacher and Intuitive Healer living in Amherst, Massachusetts. Rosie practices and teaches the Usui System of Natural Healing, is a registered Karuna Reiki® Master Practitioner and Teacher through The International Center for Reiki Training, and a practitioner and teacher of Shamballa Multidimensional Healing® through the Shamballa Americas Association. Rosie is also a practitioner of Matrix Energetics and an ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counselor/Educator through the American Society of Alternative Therapists. She produces her own line of organically grown and locally wildcrafted herbal tinctures and flower essences.