02/01/2026
✨ Make way for your new feminine icon! ✨
Today is St. Brigid’s Day or Imbolc, the first day of Spring in Ireland. The word Imbolc or “in the belly” in old Irish Neolithic language means that Spring 🌸 is ready to be born.
☘️ St. Brigid is the only female patron saint of Ireland. Back in the day, Brigid was a peacemaker and healer with magical powers. 🪄She once “turned a wooden column into a living tree with one touch and hung her cloak on a sunbeam”. As she traveled, she performed medical miracles, including curing blindness and deafness. 🩺
She 👏 is 👏 everywhere! Among the many she protects: “babies, blacksmiths, boatmen, cattle farmers…Clan Douglas, dairymaids, dairy workers, fugitives, Ireland, 🇮🇪 Leinster, mariners, midwives, milkmaids, nuns, poets, the poor, poultry farmers, poultry raisers, printing presses, sailors, ⚓️ scholars, travelers, and watermen”.
🧣If we were waking up in Ireland, (lucky!) you’d gather your scarf or clothing that you left out for her blessing. Use this to rid your headache or sore throat. 👍
Of the many traditions associated with St. Brigid, here are a few:
🧈 effigies made out of butter, known as Biddies were brought from house to house (with music, because why not?), for St. Brigid to protect this year’s profits
👶🏻 making a doll and her bed to represent Brigid (or Brideog) and also carrying her from house to house. Some women will stay home to receive the procession with a small offering of a treat or snack.
🔥 raking fire ashes smooth (don’t try this at home!) and in the morning, looking for a sign that Brigid passed through
Brigid has worked hard enough to deserve a break! Ireland agreed-St. Brigid’s Day is now an Irish national holiday. 🙌
👩🦳 St. Brigid, today we salute you.
📸: original photo by Smithsonian Magazine
