It is celebrated as a fertility festival and celebrates the things which are to come. In Ireland, Imbolc started out as a special day to honor the Great Mother Goddess Brigid. Corn is used is many of the rituals which are celebrated and grain dollies are made from stalks of wheat, corn or barley which has been kept from the last harvest. It is a Festival of Lights, and candles are lit in profusion as a form of sympathetic magick to draw warmth from the sun and to represent the increasing warmth.

In America, Groundhog's Day is celebrated on February 2nd. Groundhog's Day is basically a weather divination ritual. Depending on whether or not the groundhog sees his shadow, we learn whether we will have an early Spring or whether Winter will last six more weeks until the Spring Equinox. On this night, it is also said that the spirits of the dead walk among the living. In Ireland, these spirits are said to be seen at a crossroads.