A few days before the Celtic fire festival of Imbolc, the time when the first stirrings of life can be felt deep in the darkness of the Earth, my partner and I went out for a drive to see the full moon – known by some as the Wolf Moon. The road twisted and turned, carrying us through deep woods and quiet neighborhoods as we drove up hills and down alongside frozen snow-covered ponds and wetlands. As we drove by, I imagined the turtles waiting out the winter deep down in the m