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Brigit’s Celtic Grove of Illumination celebrates the arrival of Celtic Goddess Brigit’s Day of Imbolc with her Flame of Illumination.
The Four Doorways of Brigits Celtic Wheel of Illumination
I invite you to come and join with me in sacred space to explore the Healing power illuminated by Celtic Goddess Brigit at this her special time of Imbolc.
At Imbolc we enter the next doorway of the Celtic Wheel to invoke the support of the sacred feminine energy of Goddess Brigit.
Together we move forward supported by Brigit's Flame of Illumination as the light cast upon our path guides us out of the darkness with the first spark of her illuminated flame at Winter Solstice.
We now emerge re-birthed as the spark within grows around us each day to manifest the inner glow of her illuminating flame from the dark days of Winter of the Crone aspect of Brigit to embrace the challenges of new growth with the support of Brigits Maiden aspect.
I invite you to join with us as together we gather to celebrate Celtic Goddess Brigits Festival of Imbolc
During the event I will work as your doorkeeper to support and guide you to prepare and enter the doorway of rebirth and new beginnings.
Through this doorway of the Celtic Wheel we gather in community to welcome new growth and the courage required to embrace the coming inner stirrings of change required to manifest positive change in our lives.
Imbloc
The Rebirth Doorway of the Celtic Wheel
Celebrating the Celtic Goddess Brigit as Patron of Fire, Poets, Seers, Healers and Smitty’s.
A celebration of renewal/birth and the sacredness of childhood honoring women and their power to give life.
The days are lengthening new growth is awakening. The Sun God Lugh is making his way back northwards. The slowly re-emerging spark light invoked at Winter Solstice grows stronger each to manifest the illuminating Flame of Brigit for us as the doorway of the Celtic New Year Samhain leaves behind us the first quarter of endings completion and darkness for us to welcome the beginning of new growth at Imbolc.
From the Samhain quarter we engaged with the inner healing process and Ancestral healing of our lineage to release the old for the new to emerge. From deep within our unconscious we clear the inner shadow work of the Samhain Quarter with new light of Winter Solstice now upon us we gain the insights of Brigits Illumination Flame.
Together we now enter the next quarter through the Doorway of the Celtic Medicine wheel via the Sacred Fire ceremony of Imbolc celebrating the Celtic Goddess Brigit.
Intuitively we have made it through the inner work and reflective time of the last dark quarter of Samhain/ Winter to gain many insights that we can apply over the coming year. It is time for new beginnings after this quarter of incubation and inner healing.
From Death and regeneration of Samhain through Wintertime we now embrace the Birth/Awakening process announced at Imbolc.
In sacred ceremony we welcome the first spring lambs to be born hailing also our awakening triggered from deep within the core of Mother Earth.
The Bears begin to gently re-emerge from their inner slumbers. Just like the Bears we too can sense an inner shift/ awakening and the beginning of a new cycle of growth announcing itself to us.
At Imbolc we embrace this opportunity for new growth self awareness and insight as we welcome the opening of the next doorway to the quarter of Imbolc within the Celtic Medicine Wheel.
Dermot O Hara, The Forbidden Truth copyright©2021.
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Hail Celtic Goddess Brigit’s Day of Imboloc Feb 1st
Brigit: (also known as Brid, pronounced Breed) Brigit was probably the most important
Pre Roman Catholic Celtic Goddesses in Eire. Her following was so widespread and so important that she was adopted by Roman Catholicism at an early stage, and made one of the the patron Saints of Ireland. The Honoring of Brigit spread over Ireland Britain and parts of Europe. Her feast day is Feb. 1st/2nd, The Festival name Imboloc (ie in the belly), is associated with fertility birth renewal and the beginning of new growth. Imboloc is a fire festival and is also known as Candlemass to Christians.
Legend says she was foster mother to Jesus. This is an example of Pagan/ Christian crossover. Another story makes her the midwife at the birth of Jesus. Brigit is the daughter of the Tuatha De Danann in Celtic mythology. She is patron of Healing, Smithcraft, Poetic inspiration, Learning, and Prophesy. Brigit is the daughter of the Dagda (one of the MOST Ancient Celtic Dieties) in Celtic mythology.
The Christian Saint Bridghid was said to be the daughter of a Druid; (Pagan/Christian merging again). Saint Bridghids chief shrine in Ireland was in Kildare where a flame was burned constantly in her honour for centuries. Literally hundreds of holy wells around Ireland are dedicated to her. Many had Sweat Houses( teach ealluis) built nearby to infuse the healing qualities of the waters to the sick.
BRIGITS SYMBOL
Brigit’s cross is pre-christian in origin, and probably was a sun symbol. On Imboloc, in Ireland we make the Brigits Cross and use them to protect our homes and livestock. Brigit's cross is usually three-legged; in other words, a triskel which has been identified as an ancient solar symbol on existence long before the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It is also made as an even-armed cross woven of reeds of a later christian interpretation as Saint Bridghids cross. Here in Ireland there is also the tradition of leaving a loaf of bread, pitcher of milk and a candle out others would leave out a white cloth to receive Brigits healing powers to use on the sick.
THE GROVE
Brigit’s Celtic Grove of Illumination is dedicated to working with the Divine Feminine of Goddess awareness in the form of Goddess Brigit and her sacred illuminating Flame.
The Grove symbolically represents a bridge between the worlds of Earth and Sky.
Our intention is to heal and nurture a garden of perfect peace within the hearts of all who are drawn to hold its space sacred. The teachings of our Grove hold a Gateway to awaken a balanced harmonizing duality of God/Goddess awareness within the hearts of all who enter the sacred alchemy of Brigits Flame honoring the ancient alchemy of the ancestors of our island. Those who choose to enter the Grove journey deep within a womb like spiritual state of rebirth to reawaken the inner balance of duality and self awareness of Earth / Sky,God/ Goddess Masculine / Feminine Father/Mother ,Conscious/Unconscious. Body/Soul. We connect each month for our Hands around Mother Earth Full Moon Healing Ceremony and link up globally to celebrate the sacred manifestation of Brigit’s Flame as an illuminated aspect of Global Goddess awareness.
BRIGITS FLAME OF ILLUMINATION
This Flame connection has existed within the psyche of our people on this island for many generations. It surfaces from the Tuatha de Danann through the Sacred Stone Circles and Initiation chambers found all over our island. Many manifestations of Goddess adoration can be seen all around Ireland . Sacred grottos are in every county of this island. Most are dedicated to the Goddess in the form of Mother Mary(Our Lady). The Druidic symbol Sile na Gig also represented the Goddess and was once held sacred by our spiritual teachers the Druids. Many here in Ireland see the story of the Snakes been ran out of Ireland as being our ancient teachers the Druids. Back then the Society of our Ancestors was very much a matriarchal one .This was before the Brehon laws were removed by foreign invaders. Back then we had our language our land and the Druids our spiritual teachers taken from us.The Brehon Laws put people and community first. What came after that is a very different story of the repression of the Goddess and her people. May the Goddess rise from deep within you always.