#bríde

[psychopomps-recital]

🔥Subtle Brigid Worship⚒️

Completely inspired by @khaire-traveler ‘s subtle worship series!

➤ Light candles in your home

- (bonus points if the scent matches her associations)

➤ Read poetry books and blogs

➤ Build lego sets

➤ Clean your house or space + keep up with repairs

➤ Have bonfires with your community

➤ Swim in lakes or rivers

➤ Write poetry or creative writing

➤ Keep a grief journal

➤ Visit farms/care for livestock

➤ Donate or volunteer at animal shelters

➤ Have a picnic at sunrise

➤ Make your house a home with decor you love

➤ Share a warm drink with her

➤ Make your phone wallpaper something associated with her/art of her

➤ Sit around a fire

➤ Take regenerative baths or showers

➤ Create jewelry or sculptures

➤ Wear clothes or jewelry that suit her energy

➤ Learn a home craft like knitting, crochet or embroidery

➤ Make and mend your clothes

➤ Hang a Brigid’s cross by your door or kitchen

➤ Bake or Cook and share the meal with others

➤ Simmer pots with associated herbs

➤ Volunteer with domestic violence or queer shelters

➤ Work towards and embrace self love

➤ Help mothers & new parents in your community

➤ Grow your own food

➤ Sing songs that make you happy outloud

➤ Show hospitality wherever you can

➤ Have confidence in yourself and your worth

➤ Take care of your body and mind

➤ Go to therapy

➤ Aide the grieving and the dying

➤ Volunteer at a children’s hospital

➤ Do small acts of kindness

➤ Have honeyed or cinnamon toast

➤ Tell folktales, especially to the next generation

➤ Share stories of ancestors, not just those who are blood related

➤ Light a match

➤ Keep a stuffed sheep, cow, ox or other livestock in your home

➤ Wear perfume that reminds your of her

➤ Research Irish history & culture / Gaeilge

➤ Keep artwork of her by your door or kitchen

➤ Keep iron around your space especially your kitchen

➤ Wear iron jewelry

➤ Learn to Blacksmith or Invent something

➤ Create a community either online or irl

➤ Take care of your hair

➤ Go to a cooking or baking class

➤ Take a pottery or quilting class

➤ Foster animals

➤ Befriend your neighbors

➤ Smile and embrace life

➤ Cry and embrace death/grief when it comes into your life (more then just physical death)

➤ Read books and educate yourself

➤ Keep first aide in your home

➤ Get CPR/AED/First Aid certifications

➤ Learn herbalism

➤ Go on walks outside, especially during spring

➤ Make a wish at a well

➤ Embrace your authentic self

➤ Be an ally of or attend LGBTQIA+ events

➤ Eat fruits like apples and blackberries

➤ Learn self defense

➤ Research your ancestors, not just those related by blood

➤ Play ttrpgs or larp

➤ Keep a journal or a commonplace notebook

➤ Support small business and artists

➤ Plant native yellow flowers around your house

➤ Wear shawls, especially when you’re sick

➤ Learn grounding techniques

➤ Washing your face

➤ Eating / Drinking dairy

➤ Create collages

➤ Paint your nails with associated colors or symbols

More to be added later!

[solve-coagula-jewellery]

the Hearth and the Forge

☥ ☥ ☥ ☥ ⛧☾༺♰༻☽⛧ ☥ ☥ ☥ ☥

[gliondararmodraoi]

136. Brioċt Ḃríde / Sian Bríde / Bríde's Charm - Aistriuċán Gaeilge

See the original Gàidhlig and English text here! This entry from volume 2 of the Carmina Gadelica is a cool charm petitioning Bríde to keep animals safe. With lambing season upon us already, this seems like the best time for translating this. :)

Charms like this tended to be rooted in the local landscape, referring to plants and animals that were found locally, even when they're not naming specific areas or geographical features, like this one does. If you want to make use of a charm like this, I'd suggest substituting in the flora, fauna, and places around you.

Also, RIP to the toġán / fumart / Scottish polecat mentioned here, which is now extinct. The name fumart / foumart comes from "foul marten". Justice for the allegedly somewhat stinky Scottish polecat. </3

Brioċt Ḃríde

Brioċt a ċuir Bríde na bua, Ar a minsí, ar a caoiriġ, ar a buair, Ar a capaill, ar a capaill cogaiḋ, ar a buaile, Moċ 'us amaċ dul aḃaile 'us ó ḃaile. Gan cuimilt ó ċreagán, ó ċleiteán, Ó laḋaraċa 'gus ó aḋarca a ċéile, Ó éin na Creige Ruaidh, 'Us ó Luath na Fèinne. Ó lannaire liaṫ Creag Duilionn, Ó eolair riaḃaċ Beinn-Àrd, Ó ṡeaḃac luaṫ Torr-an-Duin, Agus fiaċ dúr Creag-a-Bhàird. Ó ṁadra rua an ċorrġlic, Ó ṁadra alla a' Mhaim, Ó ṫoġán tórmaċ, 'Us ó ṁaṫúin udṁall an ṁáis. Ó gaċ ceaṫairċosaċ sporaḋ, Agus goraḋ ḋá sciaṫ.

Liberties taken: I'm often not able to find a word in the Gàidhlig resources I'm using, or the closest matches in Irish don't preserve the rhyming scheme. For anyone who's interested, sin iad na focail that I took liberties with for those reasons, agus/nó the ones that I'm just not cinnte faoi: > M'a, mise, cual, cathmile, chleitean, lannaire liath, cuireid, na tuide, a mhais. > I also just italicised the placenames (after adding back some of the fadas that Carmichael stole!); it'd be weird to translate proper names, imo.

Suggestions/corrections are welcome!

Also, does anyone know of a resource like the draoi gramadach/grammar wizard that Teanglann.ie has, but for Gàidhlig?

[fernthewhimsical]

Prayer to Brighid

You who breathes innovation, and ignites that spark within us You who forges with steel, as well as with words You who kindles the fires, and stokes our passions high Brighid, Lady of the Amber Forge, I honour you.

[negreabsolut]

L'arribada de Na Bríde, per John Duncan. Tremp d'ou en tela, 151'1 x 151'1 cm; 1917.

[mrs-k-cottage-witch]

Mrs.K’s Imbolc Altar 2019

It’s in about 22 days, and as I want to celebrate the season, I put it up sooner rather than later.

Also known as Candlemas and St.Brigit’s day, this is one of the most important holidays for me. It marks the return of the sun and the beginning of Spring. It’s also when Brighid is said to return to the land and begin warming it again. I celebrate this day as a time for renewal, Spring Cleaning, and planning for the warmer months to begin (which als means the rainy season and we need rain).

As Brighid is one of the main gods I honor and worship, I made this altar in honor of her. There are two Brighid symbols on the altar, a corn doll to represent The Home and Hearth Fire. She also has a butter turn, which is fitting because Imbolc means Ewe’s Milk (the beginning of the lambing season). And my “joy” sculpture, which I use to represent her aspects of Healing and Hospitality. I have a third representation but it is going on my personal altar.

I used the colors of ;red - fire, white - snow/cold, copper - metalworking/smithing, glass - ice, and black - banishing; in this altar, including the cloths and candles. This altar has electronic tea lights so I don’t light the vine on fire! But it also has two candles that represent fire as well, a warm apple pie smelling candle, a candle with a copper heart I dedicated to Brighid, and even my cauldron which represent fire and water. Brighid is said to have a healing well so I wanted water represented as well, with the copper tea kettle and water pitcher. I also have a house tea light holder to represent her protecting the home and hearth. And a electronic copper lantern for light and then middle incense holder to burn incense to her and have even more fire symbols.

And lastly the vine with the metal work hearts (that light up) I use to represent the spring that is to come and the light Brighid brings with her.

There are also many uses of 3’s for her triple goddess nature and 2’s for her duality of fire and water.

And that’s my Imbolc altar! Thanks for checking it out!

- from Mrs.K’s Witchen Kitchen

All my works are copyright under the Creative Commons License - you can share if attributed properly, but not for commercial gain.

[nemetonofearthandgods]

THE RED-STALK

PLUCK will I the little red-stalk of surety,

The lint the lovely Bríde drew through her palm,

For success of health, for success of friendship,

For success of joyousness,

For overcoming of evil mind, for overcoming of evil eye,

For overcoming of bewitchment,

For overcoming of evil deed, for overcoming of evil conduct,

For overcoming of malediction,

For overcoming of evil news, for overcoming of evil words,

For success of blissfulness--

[nemetonofearthandgods]

Bride is said to preside over the different seasons of the year and to bestow their functions upon them according to their respective needs. Some call January 'am mios marbh,' the dead month, some December, while some apply the terms, 'na tri miosa marbh,' the three dead months, 'an raithe marbh,' the dead quarter, and 'raithe marbh na bliadhna,' the dead quarter of the year, to the winter months when nature is asleep. Bride with her white wand is said to breathe life into the mouth of the dead Winter and to bring him to open his eyes to the tears and the smiles, the sighs and the laughter of Spring. The venom of the cold is said to tremble for its safety on Bride's Day and to flee for its life on Patrick's Day. There is a saying:--

‘Chuir Bride miar ’s an abhuinn

La na Feill Bride

Is dh’ fhalbh mathair ghuir an fhuachd,

Is nigh i basan anns an abhuinn

La na Feill Padruig

Is dh’ fhalbh mathair ghin an fhuachd.'

Bride put her finger in the river

On the Feast Day of Bride

And away went the hatching mother of the cold,

And she bathed her palms in the river

On the Feast Day of Patrick

And away went the conception mother of the cold,

Another version says:--

'Chuir Brighid a bas ann,

Chuir Moire a cas ann,

Chuir Padruig a chiach fhuar ann.' (?)

Bride put her palm in it,

Mary per her foot in it,

Patrick put the cold stone in it,

alluding to the decrease in cold as the year advances. In illustration of this is-- 'Chuir Moire meoirean anns an uisge La Fheili Bride is thug i neimh as, ’s La Fheill Padruig nigh i lamhan ann ’s dh’ fhalbh am fuachd uil as,' Mary put her fingers in the water on Bride's Feast Day and the venom went out of it, and on Patrick's Feast Day she bathed her hands in it and all the cold went out of it.

Carmina Gadelica, Volume 1, full text at sacred-texts.com

Carmina Gadelica, Volume 1, by Alexander Carmicheal, [1900], at sacred-texts.com page 172