30/01/2025
IMBOLG
On the Celtic wheel, we are truly blessed to have the cross-quarter festivals as they are the indicators of the seasons of Nature and the seasons of our lives.
In Ireland we are so lucky to have a beautiful Alignment to Imbolg at the Mound of Hostages at Tara in County Meath. The mound has two alignments both to Samhain and Imbolg. At Samhain (early November) and Imbolc (early February) the sunrise illuminates the passage and chamber of Cairn L, lighting up the limestone standing stone in the cairn at Loughcrew Co, Westmeath.
At Samhain when the Sun was on its journey to Winter Solstice, it rose on Samhain morning to cast a beam of Light into the passageway indicating the Energy of The Ceallaigh at both sites.
The great celebration of Winter Solstice six weeks later related to us the rebirth and return of the Sun as we travel with the journey of the sun, our ancestors left us this beautiful calendar of our seasons and the seasons of our lives so beautifully and anciently validated by these incredible alignments.
As we approach Imbolg which this year falls at the exact alignment with the Passageway at the Mound of Hostages and Cairn L at Loughcrew on the 3rd of February 2025.
The construction of the Mound and Cairn and these alignments indicated to our ancestors both Samhain and Imbolg is beyond magical. Their constructions were so accurate in their alignments to the journey of the Sun.
And as the Ceallaigh protected us in the dark winter days and told us about the beauty of death at Samhain, that death gives back to our nature and she asked us to reflect about our previous wheel, it was an ending but also a beginning and the seed that was planted at Winter Solstice on the rebirth of the Sun, she told us about the giving back to our nature was now seeded for the New Spiral which manifests at Imbolg as she starts to birth as the Goddess Bridgit transforming into the beautiful Goddess of Spring. A new journey is born on the spiral. This beautiful dreaming visionary energy of the Ceallaigh is the preparation for our own rebirth on the journey of the spiral.
The Wheel or spiral is both a calendar of Nature’s time and our own and a calendar of Consciousness.
What is the Energy of Bridgit? What is she telling us?
• Fire, light, candles, the sun, sunbeams
• The hearth, thresholds and doorways
• The forge, smithing
• Midwifery
• Poetry.
• Water, springs and wells
• Cauldrons, chalices
• Brigid’s Cross
• Swans, cows, sheep, farm animals, fish, the snake, 2 entwined serpents, bees, owls, all hibernating animals
• Snowdrops, crocus, daffodil, trillium, dandelion, meadow flowers, violet, heliotrope
• Oak tree and acorn, willow trees - bark and branches, apple tree, rowan tree, heather, broom, wisteria, shamrock, reeds, straw, oats, corn, pumpkin seeds
• Large sandstone rock formations and henges, amethyst, rock crystal, gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, jasper, carnelian, azurite, garnet, peridot, serpentine, bloodstone, agate
• Milk, butter, cheese and all dairy products
The most beautiful aspect of Bridget are the Wells, the Source of all that is. The Sacredness of the springs and wells and the Water. As the Salmon always returns to spawn, we too from Samhain to Imbolg returned to the source of our ancient springs to rebirth. On Imbolg Bridgit tells us we are now setting a new course just like the river reborn out the sacred spring.
Bridgit, Goddess of the Wells, Fire, Hearth, Crafts, Smyths, Milk, Mid-wives, Healers,
Goddess of Spring.
Waking the Land from the Protection of The Ceallaigh.
Bless all who ask for your Love and Healing.
As the Land stirs and awakens and as we start out on this new wheel
Bridgit, Guide us on the New Journey on the new and never-ending spiral.
Imbolg Blessings to all.
The Wren Circle©
A very special thank to my dear and immensely talented friend Sean Fitzgerald who gave me permission to use his art for my Imbolg Blessing.
Bridgit Art. Sean Fitzgerald Art.©
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