31/01/2026
For Imbolc 🔥
St. Brigid’s Blessing begins with “May Brigid bless the house wherein you dwell” has a far deeper meaning than just a simple wish.
To have Brigid bless our House is to have her presence fully active within the walls of our home and everyone within. It is to ask Brigid, the keeper of the Flame, to dance within our relationships, and welcome her transformative power into our most intimate of dwellings, that which houses our relationship with partner, children, and all our family.
Brigid, who not only tends the forge, but embodies the true purpose of fire, take what is dense, solid material and shapes it to its true purpose.
Brigid is an alchemist and fire is both her weapon and tool.
Brigid never stands outside of the Fire, she merges beautifully into the Flames.
Recognising as she does, that she herself is Fire.
Born from Fire, made from Fire, and thus her purpose is the same as Fire, to transform.
So many of us seek healing, perhaps, at first, for answers and relief.
But relief only gets us so far.
For everyone of us there is a crossroads that appears in this journey, that demands an answer of both direction and intent.
The question posed asks us are we truly initiates or do we prefer to remain as infants?
Are we mature enough to wield the fire as it’s intended? Bringing its flames into the heart of our homes, touching upon the relationships we cradle, letting fire have its say until only genuine warmth and affection remain?
Do we allow fire to take us into conflict, burning away half truths and conditional relating, until only the transparency of intimacy remains?
Or do we want to continue to attempt to warm ourselves by the flames, seeking respite from our weary lives?
Running from the reality of what exists in our own personal hearth, hoping fire will join us in our self pity, non responsive ways?
Do we want to continue to use fire in an attempt to heat the empty coldness of the spaces we refuse to yield?
And if so, are we no better than thieves, taking without giving? Seeking to take a Divine substance to bandage our wounds rather than allowing its Light to reveal to us the source of our pain. . How we choose to create.
Or worse, tyrannical masters trying to bend the Light to our bidding, entitled in our righteousness that life owes us so.
Fire consumes, it burns its way through. It is light, heat and love seeking to reveal the truth of any substance. Nothing stays the same in the presence of Fire. And if we truly loved, we would behave the same, acting as conductors of flames, allowing both the flow and charge of change within us and through us.
The ocean of self soothing bypassing has passed, only the Invitation to Fire remains.
As the crossroads opens up collectively, the question is are we ready to dance with Fire? To behave as courageously as Brigid does, bringing transformation into our homes and hearth, until all is irrevocably changed?
Knowing that if we don’t allow the Flame to touch how and who we relate to, we remain nothing more than spiritual spectators, rather than living as Children of the Sun.
Art by VGB Studio