For me, Brighid represents the force that moves people towards greater wisdom and wildness. She represents an ancient spirit of human consciousness, where the powers of women and men are considered magical and everyday life is infused with meaning. This is the force that can inspire us to reach as far up into the Heavens as we can, and to spread our roots as deeply into the mysteries of the Earth. She represents the life energy that lives inside us and seeks expression through our greatest passions, whatever they may be. Brigid guides us to take the reins of our lives into our own hands, and helps us to steer through myriad possibilities toward living out whatever it is that we were born to do, our fullest expression of who we are. She is the support that happens when we let Life work with us and through us.
As Brigid is the goddess of both Smithcraft and Healing, she represents the mastery of the fires alive inside of us: our anger, sexual power, and creativity. Her alchemy is the blend of body, mind, and spirit, as well as of earth, air, fire, and water. Her own mastery of fire reminds us that we learn to know and respect the power of our sexuality, and to consciously work with our anger as a force for freedom and evolution. She reminds us to reexamine what it means to be “powerful “, to reexamine altogether what exactly power is and how to share it. She challenges us to grow past our own limitations as we sometimes feel “thrown into the fire”. We are asked to transform, again and a
gain.
If we women in the western world spent even half as much time and energy as concerned with the well-being of the planet and people as we typically do on how sexy we look, the clothes we wear, or on watching TV, our culture and the world as we know it would literally transform. Imagine how much precious energy this would free up! While caring for our bodies, celebrating our sexuality, and even adorning ourselves is inherent in celebrating the Goddess, the obsession\ self-hatred of women’s bodies that permeates our culture must be changed for future generations. Brighid, by whatever name we call her, can remind us of what it is we truly value within ourseleves and with each other, and is an essential part of a force that can aid us in the desperately needed task of recreating authentic human culture.
Brighid bids us to be conscious and respectful of the sources of energy, electricity, and power in our world, to respect the source of Life. She is a force for healing our human communities and our relationship with the Earth.
Brigid is the beckoning of the living Earth, flame, wind, streams and springs to us for their protection, as well as for communion and reverence. She urges us to include a responsible stewardship of the planet among our passions and pursuits. She remembers a time of greater wholeness among people, and seeks to help us bring Heaven back to Earth, with our fiery wills, sharp minds, and skillfull means. She carries with her all of the knowledge and cries of the infinite ancestors who knew her. She can awaken inside of us the holy flame that finds expression through liberation and love. She can help give us courage to live our lives as powerful people in this insane time of near global disaster. Her flame has burned for centuries, in the homes, hearths, cathedrals, forges, and woodlands of those who have gone before. To name her and to acknowledge her presence and endurance is to replenish the fires of our own hearts, to drink from a precious well sourced very deeply inside the Earth, and to remember who we are.
As Brigid is the goddess of both Smithcraft and Healing, she represents the mastery of the fires alive inside of us: our anger, sexual power, and creativity. Her alchemy is the blend of body, mind, and spirit, as well as of earth, air, fire, and water. Her own mastery of fire reminds us that we learn to know and respect the power of our sexuality, and to consciously work with our anger as a force for freedom and evolution. She reminds us to reexamine what it means to be “powerful “, to reexamine altogether what exactly power is and how to share it. She challenges us to grow past our own limitations as we sometimes feel “thrown into the fire”. We are asked to transform, again and a
gain.If we women in the western world spent even half as much time and energy as concerned with the well-being of the planet and people as we typically do on how sexy we look, the clothes we wear, or on watching TV, our culture and the world as we know it would literally transform. Imagine how much precious energy this would free up! While caring for our bodies, celebrating our sexuality, and even adorning ourselves is inherent in celebrating the Goddess, the obsession\ self-hatred of women’s bodies that permeates our culture must be changed for future generations. Brighid, by whatever name we call her, can remind us of what it is we truly value within ourseleves and with each other, and is an essential part of a force that can aid us in the desperately needed task of recreating authentic human culture.
Brighid bids us to be conscious and respectful of the sources of energy, electricity, and power in our world, to respect the source of Life. She is a force for healing our human communities and our relationship with the Earth.
Brigid is the beckoning of the living Earth, flame, wind, streams and springs to us for their protection, as well as for communion and reverence. She urges us to include a responsible stewardship of the planet among our passions and pursuits. She remembers a time of greater wholeness among people, and seeks to help us bring Heaven back to Earth, with our fiery wills, sharp minds, and skillfull means. She carries with her all of the knowledge and cries of the infinite ancestors who knew her. She can awaken inside of us the holy flame that finds expression through liberation and love. She can help give us courage to live our lives as powerful people in this insane time of near global disaster. Her flame has burned for centuries, in the homes, hearths, cathedrals, forges, and woodlands of those who have gone before. To name her and to acknowledge her presence and endurance is to replenish the fires of our own hearts, to drink from a precious well sourced very deeply inside the Earth, and to remember who we are.
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