7.1.26 - 14 - Brigid

Today's Goddess card is Brigid. It's nice to look forward to spring. The Irish have a deep connection with the land. It is probably what sustained them against the English. The English - actually - if you look at all colonisation, it has failed one way or the other. America is a shattered country. But even before it was shattered the way it is now, its society was complete toxic. It was probably best exemplified by the disturbing stories of Stephen King and the now, the child sacrifices which take place in the degenerate circles of the Epstein class. 

This post was not supposed to be about America. It was supposed to be able the indigenous peoples of the land and their connection to it.

If you are a coloniser, or descended from colonisers, or the results of colonisation, as I am, the very least you could do is fucking not take the side of the colonisers - or to put it positively, stand in solidarity with the oppressed and help keep the stories alive.

Brigid was, of course, one of the triple goddess. She personified youth and the spring. She was the maiden. She also looked after all of the things which made the Iron Age the Iron Age - cattle, cloth and blacksmithing. As such, she was the goddess of innovation. She loved the new. She brought in the new. She always came first. She was pure joy.

She was poetry and music. She was the arts. She was healing. She ushered in the new age.

She gave hope. That is who she was. She was the future making itself manifest. At this time of the year, you can feel Brigid stirring... in the songs of birds which have already begun. In the snowdrops and the early narcissi. In the catkins which wave in the air. It is all happening.