Brigid Quotes

“I will lead you home, I will guide you back, My waters will carry thee, My flame will guide thee. —“SEA SONG FROM BRÍD,” Gemma McGowan”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Celtic spirituality linked the number three with all things divine and so Brigid the Goddess began to appear in lore and image in triplicate form. Contemporary images of Brigid often depict her as maiden, mother, and crone, associating the three sisters with the phases of the moon: waxing, full, and waning, but this is not a correct correlation. Brigid has historically been considered a solar Deity and as three identical women of the same age, sometimes called the Three Brigid Sisters: Woman of Healing (Ban leighis), Woman of Smithwork (Ban goibnechtae), and Woman Poet (Ban fhile). In addition to being the living earth, Brigid was also seen as the living embodiment of spring.”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Brigid's Water Mysteries may be about knowing and healing the Self and her Bardic Mysteries express the Self, but the Fire Mysteries extend beyond the Self. No act for the Self can embody the Spirit of Brigid if it leaves nothing for those who will never know your own Self. What flames can we light that will continue our legacy? What ideas can we inspire that will stimulate long after our names have been forgotten?”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Brigid's fire is akin to the soul's internal fire—what we crave, what we desire, what we must endure. As the flame that never dies or destroys, Brigid fire motivates and leads.”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Hail reign a fair maid with gold upon your toe Open up the West Gate and let the Old Year go; Hail reign a fair maid with gold upon your chin, Open up the East Gate and let the New Year in; Levideu sing Levideu the water and the wine, The seven bright gold wires and candles that do shine. —FROM TRADITIONAL WELSH, said at Candlemas (Imbolc) rites”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Even after her British image was merged with Minerva, Brigantia's earliest depictions showed her pouring water from a jug. This may be a connection to the “safer face” of water—water that can be used for human consumption. This denotes Brigid's oldest and most primary connection to water: that of the natural well.”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“The animist spirit was often female and so the title Brig was often applied to the spirits believed to inhabit sacred places such as wells and blacksmith shops. Practices of great renown such as the Bardic arts were also believed to contain feminine spirits, which influenced their cultivation. Over the centuries, foreign ears heard the term Brig and may have assumed it to be a singular Goddess who held jurisdiction over innumerable things. Over time, Brig popped up in various roles—large and small—in myth and lore, and eventually evolved into a singular, massively popular figure with highly diverse traits.”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess

“Ronald Hutton in The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles points out that it is difficult to tell whether these were real reflections of the Goddesses, role models for Celtic women, fantasies of the Celtic men, or the nightmarish visions of the Roman explorers or the Christian monks who eventually wrote down the descriptions.”
― Courtney Weber, Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess