February 1 is the Festival of Brigit, Goddess of the Growing Light. One of Brigit’s aspects is the Weaver Goddess. Here she connects with weaving the web of destiny. Brigit is said to have put healing threads into the first piece of cloth woven in the Celtic tradition.
True healing is not just treating symptoms of problems – emotional or physical – but re-weaving those subtle threads together again.
Fortunately, we live in a self-correcting universe that is perpetually doing just that, mending the tears in the fabric of our world using the inexhaustive skeins of light energy, another name for which is – Love. ~ Mara Freeman, Kindling the Celtic Spirit
On the Eve of Brigit’s festival, Celtic country people will perform an old ritual where they replicate Brigit’s healing cloth for their own healing uses.
Brigit is a goddess of many attributes. She is known as a woman of great wisdom, healer, shepherdess, guardian of health, and winter’s flame keeper. She brings Hope; Hope of Spring and a new beginning, Hope of bravery and Love. She walks in Peace and Love and offers those blessings to all the world’s people.
In preparation for the celebration of Brigit’s festival, I purchase 100% cotton fabric (I like to have a selection of colors and usually get all the [tag]chakra[/tag] colors, a quarter yard each, with an additional yard of white). Upon bringing it home I gently wash it to remove any chemicals used in the fabric weaving and preparing process. I iron it lovingly…and wait.
On January 31, generally at dusk, I take my precious bundle to my oldest, most sacred tree. There I call in the wise ones to honor Brigit. Then I tie the fabrics together and wind them around the tree. I do a blessing prayer to the Goddess as I do this. When complete, I finish with a blessing prayer of thanksgiving. During the night as I sleep, I imagine the Goddess coming to my house and putting her healing energy into the cloth, which can then be used for healing purposes.
I use the fabric to wrap my sacred treasures for Seven Star Blessing Space Clearings; it can be used to wrap sacred gifts and sometimes, I will gift a piece of the appropriate color to a client to use for color healing.
If you do not have a tree, you can drape the fabric on a bush, or even tie it on a fence post. If you don’t have fabric, use a ribbon. She will find it and fill it with her love.
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