01/02/2025
Happy Imbolc! ✨🍃🐇🪺
February 1st marks Imbolc, the festival of returning light and the promise of spring. If you listen closely, you can whisper Brigid’s name on the winds—for the echoes of the past are still alive.
Brigid is the life-giving Goddess of midwifery, healing, poetry, and animal husbandry, especially sacred cows, revered in Ireland since Neolithic times. She is also the keeper of the flame, the guardian of fire and smithcraft, representing transformation and renewal.
As the Goddess of Spring, her sacred day was celebrated during Imbolc, marking the official start of the season for the Celtic people.
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Being Irish isn’t about rainbows, pots of gold, or leprechauns—it’s about remembering deep-rooted traditions, sacred sites, and ancient wisdom, much of which has been lost. How I long to travel to Ireland and connect with its mystical spirit.
Ireland is home to many holy wells dedicated to St. Brigid, the beloved patron saint of the land. Yet, long before Christianity, the Celtic Goddess Brighid was honored—a guardian of healing, poetry, and sacred fire.
There is debate as to whether the Celtic Goddess Brighid (also known as Brigit, Bríg, and Bride—pronounced “Breet”) and Saint Brigid are one and the same. She is sometimes called “Muire na nGael”—The Mary of the Gaels.
Brigid kept the tradition of the sacred flame alive. Nineteen nuns took turns holding twenty-four-hour vigils tending the flame, and on the 20th day, the Goddess Brighid Herself was said to tend the flame.
The sacred fire on the hill of Kildare was never to be extinguished; keeping the holy traditions of the Druids of Cill Dara.
Her presence still lingers—in the land, in the stories, and in those who remember.
📷 Stone carving of Bogha Bride (St. Brigid’s Cross) at a Holy Well in Kildare, Ireland
