Brigid, Brigit, Bridget, Brighid, Bride, Breo-saighead. The triple goddess of the Celts blends fire and water to bring both reconciliation and creativity, the soothing and the spark. Her patronage includes the healing arts, mediation, poetry and blacksmithing, motherhood and the sacred hearth of home. Imbolc is her feast day, from dusk on February 1 to dusk of February 2 (in keeping with the division of days in Celtic culture), when the birthing and new milk of the ewes and cows marks the end of the crone's winter, and the coming of new life into the world.

In later years, this most important deity of the Celtic world was absorbed into the Christian pantheon as St. Brigid, whose order still keeps the ancient flame of Brigid alive. They built their abbey in Ireland at Kildare, named for the ancient oak that stood in that place when the devotees of Brigid (and perhaps Brigid herself) established this center of magic and learning in the smoky depths of history.

Here, we see Brigid playing, as always, in multiple roles: she is both mother and midwife, creator and healer, fire and water together. She offers us protection and guidance through pregnancy and childbirth, whilst reminding us of the creative joy that brings new life.

Blessed be!

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