“Faith for the Naturalistic Pagan: Trusting in the Return of Warmth” by Crafter Yearly

Imbolc has been about faith for me this year, because instead of focusing on the light, I’m focusing on the warmth. For me, Imbolc this year is about trusting that shifts are occurring, even if their results are too subtle to perceive or delayed in their impact. It’s about trusting that clarity and warmth eventually predominate, even though the cold feels like it may go on forever. Faith in this sense, then, is not about belief in supernatural beings or the absence of rationality. Instead, it is a commitment to a sense of humility towards that which is, as yet, too subtle to be perceived.