Nine Days of Brigid, Day Eight
We honor Brigid today as She Who Embodies the Quickening
Welcome to Nine Days of Brigid: A Daily Sacred Pause of Creative Inspiration. We’re celebrating Brigid, the beloved Irish Goddess and Saint. Let’s make space for receiving her gifts of creative fire, healing, and transformation. What shall we offer her in return? This is a seasonal offering for paid subscribers. Thank you for being here.
Your daily spark of inspiration:
As February arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, we begin to look for signs of Spring. If you live in the far North, you may not see any signs at all in a landscape filled with ice and snow. In milder climates, there might be all kinds of flowers already in bloom.
Can you feel or sense the quickening of the earth? Life is stirring underground. It’s beginning to awaken, even when the land appears to be fallow and still asleep.
I invite you to go for a walk, a Wild Wander. Go with all your senses wide open and notice what you see, hear, smell, feel, sense. Take your camera or sketchbook along. Keep silent as you go. Be on the outlook for anything unusual that captures your attention ... sunlight glinting on water, a bird you don’t usually see, new snowfall, a flowering plant beginning to bloom. This may be a sign or an omen for you — or it may simply be a moment of grace.