I forgot to post this yesterday! On Imbolc, aka Groundhog's Day . . . It is Imbolc, aka Candlemas. It is a Celtic holiday (aka holy day) in which the goddess awakes from a six week sleep and ushers in spring. It aka Brigid's Day, a Celtic triple goddess associated from many things ranging from blacksmithing to the hearth flame.
As usual, Christians appropriated the holiday and named it Candlemas to draw pagans into flock. In Christianity, the day commemorates the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of the Holy Encounter, which would have occurred six weeks after his birth on the winter solstice. In some Celtic myths, the goddess gives birth on the solstice and sleeps six weeks afterwards. Christians did the same for Samhain (Halloween) and Christmas.

Brigit was also appropriated by the Catholic Church and made into a saint because they could not eradicate the worship of her.

It is no wonder that the groundhog checks for the arrival of spring today. In Scotland:

The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bríde,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.

"Imbolc was believed to be when the Cailleach—the divine hag of Gaelic tradition—gathers her firewood for the rest of the winter. Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood. Therefore, people would be relieved if Imbolc is a day of foul weather, as it means the Cailleach is asleep and winter is almost over.[38] At Imbolc on the Isle of Man, where she is known as Caillagh ny Groamagh, the Cailleach is said to take the form of a gigantic bird carrying sticks in her beak."

The last info is from Wikipedia:
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