Ruth Cato

29/01/2026

Currently committing myself to a love affair for life with this mountain.
Who’s ready to build The Temple?
Welsh mountain. Waters. Off grid community. Shamanic animist practises.
And… go!

28/01/2026

See you around the fire - this Sunday - spaces available via the link in the bio or on the website, choose retreats.
near Ludlow UK

28/01/2026

Join me Sunday as She reawakens to Earth

Brigid is not the goddess most people think she is. (Though you probably knew that.)

A lot of modern writing frames her as a quiet hearth goddess. Comfort. Domestic fire. Gentle warmth. Nope.

In early Irish sources like Sanas Cormaic, Brigid’s name is linked to breo-saigit meaning “fire arrow.”

She is credited with inventing keening, the vocal crying and wailing performed after death. She rules poetry, healing, and smithcraft. All transformative, powerful disciplines.

But here’s what really stood out when I went back to the Carmina Gadelica.

Brigid isn’t just associated with fire. She uses her breath to wake the earth from winter.

In Scottish Gaelic tradition, winter was sometimes called am mìos marbh (“the dead month”) or an ràithe marbh (“the dead quarter”). On Brigid’s Day, she uses her breath and her white wand and breath to reanimate the land itself.

After this awakening, a serpent associated with winter’s venom is drawn up from the earth and slithers away.

Brigid is not a passive hearth figure.
She’s the catalyst.

And she arrives this Sunday.

Read more about her powers, myths, and how to work with her here: https://www.pagangrimoire.com/brigid-goddess/

27/01/2026

Who will join me for Imbolc? This Sunday sunrise https://www.ruthcato.com/imbolcritual

The Brat Bhride (Brigid's Cloak), is a piece of cloth, shawl, ribbon, handkerchief, or scarf that was tied or spread over a bush, tree, gate or on a window sill on 31st January - the eve before Brigid's Day.

It was put outside before sunset for Brigid to bless during the night as she passed by and then brought back inside before sunrise on 1st February.

This blessing by Brigid is thought to have given healing and protective qualities to the cloth which would be used in the home to help ease headaches, sore throat, and illness over the next 12 months.

It would be used too during childbirth and also to provide safety during a journey.

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26/01/2026

The Libra Aries axis

PaetraTauchertAstrology.com

26/01/2026

February 2026 is one of the most pivotal and transformative months of the year, marked by intense Aquarius and Aries energies that are accelerating personal and collective evolution. A rapid timeline shifts unfolds with more system breakdowns, and heightened solar, geomagnetic, and planetary activity that are catalyzing deep changes in identity, values, and life direction. It can be hard to understand it all on a daily basis. Key transits include the Leo Full Moon, Uranus stationing direct in Ta**us, Saturn and Neptune re-entering Aries and forming a powerful conjunction at zero degrees, an Aquarius solar eclipse, and Mercury’s extended journey and retrograde in Pisces. Together, these energies signal endings of outdated systems, relationships, and identities, while ushering in new beginnings aligned with one’s future self, soul purpose, and higher timelines. Grounding, energetic discernment, and conscious choices are more important than ever during this volatile yet creative period. Humanity is moving into a more multidimensional, galactically supported phase of evolution, and we will have jolts and big surprises that we've never experienced before.

More here:
https://youtu.be/bdgnBmFzq9A

26/01/2026

Song of the moment. Where do you have/ have you had false confidence? Where have you been tearing yourself down? How are you ready to wake back up again, in your truth and self compassion?

Music video by Noah Kahan performing False Confidence (Acoustic).© 2018 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

26/01/2026

Last call for drum birthing next week: 3 month payment plan available. This would be birthed on Imbolc at the moment of the birth of New Earth, potent power for what is ready to rise in you and the world.

Imbolc Drum Birthing Ceremony - Tuesday 3rd February 2026 - Ludlow, Herefordshire (Welsh Borderlands) We gather on Tuesday 3rd February , in the wild hills of Ludlow, Herefordshire , where the Welsh borderlands breathe with the first stirrings of spring. As the Earth begins to wake beneath the