01/29/2026
🍀🔥 When Christianity began to sweep through Ireland, the people's love and reverence for Brigid was so profound they made her a Saint. Her feast day is Imbolc, February 1st, marking the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.
At Imbolc, St. Brigid is often honored as the maiden of returning light, and patron saint of healers, poets, learning, transformation, and spiritual leadership.
🕊 Imbolc is about potential, not proof. The flame of hope lighting the way through darkness, uncertainty, and hardship. Imbolc is gentle, not loud. This isn’t a harvest, but it *IS* the promise of one.
🌱 Imbolc is renewal- renewal of vows to the Self, your craft, and your community. A time for sacred pause to make space in your Self for new growth after a period of suspended animation.
🔥 St. Brigid's fire at Imbolc is purification- not rushing forward, but preparing the way by releasing old and stagnant energy to make space for what sets your soul on fire- and carrying that flame through the rest of the year!
I invite my friends, family, and clients, to join me in celebrating St. Brigid by:
- Adding your prayers to my Reiki box (i will use fire to release our prayers on her feast day)
- Searching within yourselves to release what winter weighed down
- Receive a Holy Fire reiki session to help move stangnant energy in your body to promote healing and hope
- Saying this prayer to yourself (preferably while lighting a prayer candle)
"Though the ground is cold,
the fire remembers.
What sleeps is not lost.
What waits is not weak.
I tend the flame,
and the flame tends me.”
Imbolc reminds us- The harvest will come, but first, we must prepare the way for it. Arguably, this is the most important part, and it cannot/should not be rushed.
