Brigid's Day / Night is fast approaching. As daughter to Dagda she strengthens the triplicities of her father's belt of three stars. Brigid is the patroness of poetry with her Fires of Inspiration, she is the patroness of healing and fertility with her Fires of the Hearth and she is patroness of smithcraft and martial arts with her Fires of the Forge.
She is the Lady of Aquarius long before she was hidden and then replaced by the Aquarian man, but Brigid lives on in Ireland and in the hearts of many who know and respect her magical healer skills.
Brigid Abú
She is the Lady of Aquarius long before she was hidden and then replaced by the Aquarian man, but Brigid lives on in Ireland and in the hearts of many who know and respect her magical healer skills.
Brigid Abú
Brigid was born at the start of day to night as she travels into the Otherworld with her red eared cow and her bees seeking the sacred nectar of life. Brigid’s story is written in the other world of the stars for all to see and connect with. As a child Brigid was said to have been sustained by the milk of a white cow with red ears and this sacred cow also gave milk to all the poor people she encountered on her travels. This red eared cow is accompanied by bees and they all live in the apple orchard in the Otherworld beneath the horizon. It was Dagda, her father who made Brigid a guardian of this orchard and all that live in it. This apple orchard is today known as the Milky Way and in Gaeilge as ‘Bealach na Bó Finne’ meaning the Way of the White Cow.
It was in this apple orchard that Dagda, Brigid’s father kept his two pigs or boars, ‘one always growing and one always roasting’. Dagda was gifted these two Boars by Manannan. As daughter to Dagda she strengthens the triplicities of her father's belt of three white stars.
She is the patroness of poetry with her Fires of Inspiration, she is the patroness of healing and fertility with her Fires of the Hearth and she is patroness of smithcraft and martial arts with her Fires of the Forge. She is the Lady of Aquarius long before she was hidden and then replaced by the Aquarian man, but Brigid lives on in Ireland and in the hearts of many who know her. Her name means ‘the Exalted One’, she is wife to Bres and their son was Ruadan, who was killed by Goibniu. Brigid holds respect as a goddess of healing, fertility, water, motherhood, childbirth and agriculture and fire, creativity, poetry, smithcraft and invention. When Brigid’s son Rúadán died she was in such grief that her cries could be heard for miles and this was the start of the ‘keening’ tradition in Ireland. In Irish - caoineadh means crying and is the source of the term ‘keening’, a woman’s ritual art form or ceromony sung at the wake or graveside when mourning the dead.
Brigid invented a wooden whistle for women to use for night travel to call to each other preventing them from getting lost during the night. Brigid is revered as a goddess of the sun and fire and as the protectress of animals, mainly cattle and sheep. Irish people would leave offerings for Brigid at Imbolg asking her to protect their homes, animals and to help with good harvests. In the old books, such as ‘Lebor Gabála Érenn’ and ‘Cormac’s Glossary’, she is described as the ‘goddess of poets’ and as ‘a wise woman’ and ‘sage’.
It was in this apple orchard that Dagda, Brigid’s father kept his two pigs or boars, ‘one always growing and one always roasting’. Dagda was gifted these two Boars by Manannan. As daughter to Dagda she strengthens the triplicities of her father's belt of three white stars.
She is the patroness of poetry with her Fires of Inspiration, she is the patroness of healing and fertility with her Fires of the Hearth and she is patroness of smithcraft and martial arts with her Fires of the Forge. She is the Lady of Aquarius long before she was hidden and then replaced by the Aquarian man, but Brigid lives on in Ireland and in the hearts of many who know her. Her name means ‘the Exalted One’, she is wife to Bres and their son was Ruadan, who was killed by Goibniu. Brigid holds respect as a goddess of healing, fertility, water, motherhood, childbirth and agriculture and fire, creativity, poetry, smithcraft and invention. When Brigid’s son Rúadán died she was in such grief that her cries could be heard for miles and this was the start of the ‘keening’ tradition in Ireland. In Irish - caoineadh means crying and is the source of the term ‘keening’, a woman’s ritual art form or ceromony sung at the wake or graveside when mourning the dead.
Brigid invented a wooden whistle for women to use for night travel to call to each other preventing them from getting lost during the night. Brigid is revered as a goddess of the sun and fire and as the protectress of animals, mainly cattle and sheep. Irish people would leave offerings for Brigid at Imbolg asking her to protect their homes, animals and to help with good harvests. In the old books, such as ‘Lebor Gabála Érenn’ and ‘Cormac’s Glossary’, she is described as the ‘goddess of poets’ and as ‘a wise woman’ and ‘sage’.
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