Lent for Brujas: A Season of Sacred Discipline
For many people raised around Catholic traditions, Lent carries complicated feelings.
Some remember guilt.
Some remember restriction.
Some remember the quiet pressure of being told to give something up without ever understanding why.
But within brujería, Lent can be something very different.
Lent for Brujas: Sacred Reflection, Fasting, and Spiritual Reclamation
For spiritual practitioners walking between folk magic, ancestral memory, and devotional traditions, Lent can be reframed as a season of sacred clearing rather than deprivation.
Think of this time as spiritual soil preparation.
Before seeds are planted, earth is loosened, weeds are gently removed, and the ground is made ready to receive life.