The Blessings of Bridgit to you! In olden days, and to this day still in Ireland great fires were lit on hilltops in honor of Bridgit, Goddess and Midwife to the new born, Smith of fire craft and metal, Goddess of love and marriage, Lady of the seed, and the new milk................just about all good things were seen as the blessings of Bridgit. In fact, and many don't know this, Britain was named after Bridgit. Great Britain, Great Bridgit. Her roots go very far back to prehistoric times.
This is a significant day because it is the day of quiet, unseen Germination, in the roots, under the sleeping Earth, the very beginning of the awakening of new life as the sun begins to warm and illuminate the world. Bridgit's Day.
Here is a lovely little article from geomancer and Earth Mysteries teacher Sig Lonegren, who first taught me to dowse and introduced me to.......well, what became my life work. But that's another story. Time to begin to germinate those seeds!
"Imbolc is that time of the Celtic yearly cycle when the seed that was planted at Samhain (1 November) and lies dormant through the dark of the winter, by throwing out that little cotyledon, moves by itself for the first time. It is analogous to the quickening in the human reproductive cycle. It has a life of its own. In Vermont, where I used to live, an underground chamber called Rodwin is oriented toward the Imbolc Sunset.
Here in Glastonbury, the Pilgrim Reception Centre sponsored a new Holy Thorn (the old one on Wearyall Hill was vandalised). This cutting from the old Holy Thorn was planted next to a new World Peace Pole as well as a bench for visitors to rest on.
Imbolc is the time when ideas or plans that have been lying fallow in the dark all winter are now ready to begin a life of their own. What projects have you been thinking about that are ready to begin to move, to manifest? Use this time of Imbolc to feel that quickening, and be ready to give birth."
Sig Lonegren
Mid-Atlantic Geomancy
Bridgit in performance. Photo by Thomas Lux
1 comment:
Wow! Would love to see that dance!
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