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Goddess of light, inspiration and all skills associated with
fire, she is the benefactress of inner healing and vital energy.
She is the mother of all things, mistress of all the elements,
Queen with divine powers, trilogy Goddess of the spoken word,
healing and fire.
Brigid's festival is the 1st of February, otherwise known
as Imbolc (pronounced Im-bolk). She takes over from the Goddess
of winter and is seen as the maiden aspect of the triple Goddess.
The hearth fire is sacred to Brigid.
Brigid is perhaps one of the oldest Goddesses of Celtic Europe.
One aspect of Brigid is of poetess and muse, Goddess of inspiration,
learning, poetry, divination. A second aspect of Brigid is
as Goddess of smithcraft. The third aspect of Brigid is that
of Goddess of healing and medicine. These three aspects are
united through the symbol of fire; thus here appellation as
a fire Goddess. In various places she was know as Goddess
of fertility, the hearth, all feminine arts and crafts, and
the martial arts. She was identified with the changing moon
and the ox, boar and ram. Her sacred number is 19 (The number
of years it takes for the new moon to coincide with the Sun's
winter solstice).
She is a fire maiden who's pure primoridal
fire burns away the dross. She is pure and untainted. A virgin
unto herself. The vibrant fires of first creation, dragon
lines of energy on her sister Earth and the lava at her belly.
Brigid is patroness of all healers and of
the British Isles where her veneration was once wide-spread.
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