Brigid Blessings

BEGINNINGS | AWAKENINGS | GROWING YOUR WINGS

Sending you Imbolc Blessings friend.

We are halfway between Winter and Spring, a Celtic celebration from Spring calling us forward and Winter softening it’s embrace.

Imbolc is a sacred time of renewal, inviting a return to our inner fire and creative flow. It’s a time to release the past, nurture ourself, and step into new possibilities.

I have already seen daffodils coming up near my house and a few patches of snow drops too. These early signs of life emerging, once again, bring me excitement and hope.

I feel like I’m waking up from a Savasana (lying on your back with you eyes closed) at the end of a yoga class, finding little movements in my finger tips and toes, before a take a full body stretch.

Brigid was originally a Goddess and then dubbed a Saint when Christianity arrived in Ireland. She is the traditional Patroness of HEALING, POETRY and SMITHCRAFT.

So what does that mean to us today? Brigid’s energy, magic and influence are still woven into the ether around us today. We can still tune in and connect to her skills, talents and essence.

I invite you to call upon her and see what she has to say to you, what does she want you to see in yourself or find in yourself as we begin to approach Spring, the season of fertility, growth and maiden energy.

Tap into your young and free maiden spirit who finds play and joy in all tasks? Connect to the poet within or the artistic call that your being forgot about? Or maybe she simply wants you to relight the flame within, the flame of courage, self love and empowerment.

I also invite you to journal on what is stirring within that is slowly brewing to emerge later in the year.

And setting up an alter to honour Brigid and the celebration of Imbolc, which can also be a beautiful and concrete way of embodying the shifts of energy.

This could be lighting a green candle (Brigid is often thought of as wearing green, with green eyes and one of her symbols is a flame), some crystals you feel tether you to Spring, my choices are yellow calcite and citrine.

Flowers can also be a way of honouring the Spring to come and your own internal blossoming as you awake from hibernation.

Maybe over the next fews weeks, as you continue to come back to Brigid’s voice within, you’ll start to find the pieces for your vision board. Maybe you’ll start to collect ideas, images and feelings that want to be pinned to your wall of dreams and desires.

Maybe new insights, goals and options emerge out of the darkness. Maybe you remember more of who you are and how you want to feel in your life. Maybe you honour and cherish what is important to your heart more and more.

Maybe you let go of outdated dreams, and heal your wounded inner child, who wanted to be seen and heard by pleasing others. Maybe you give them the love they didn’t think they had, so they can return to running free in the fields of flowers.

Maybe you change nothing, but something changes within, and life doesn’t seem so much of a struggle anymore. Maybe you realise it was only your perspective making it tricky and heavy.

Maybe you realise you get to choose how you feel, how you act and how you live this life from here on in.

Or maybe none of this all.

Sending you so much Love and Brigid Blessings on this Imbolc weekend,

Siân ♥️