About
This body of work is for those crossing from winter into spring—whether in the land or in the soul. For those emerging from long dark, and ready to begin again. Rooted in Irish cosmology, folklore, and elemental wisdom, this offering is not about worshipping a figure, but walking with an archetype. Brigid here is understood not as saint or goddess, but as threshold-keeper: the one who meets us at the edge of the dark and tends the hearth of return. Her flame is not decorative—it is initiatory. This work follows the arc of re-emergence—from the depths of the dark night of the soul to the subtle yet seismic thawing that signals life’s return. It speaks to grief and composting, and to the quiet courage it takes to live again after loss or transformation. Drawing on the elemental teachings of spring—air, breath, vision, and clarity—it invites a renewed relationship with one’s body, voice, and sense of place. Through storytelling, reflection, cultural ritual, and psychological insight, we explore the medicine of the Maiden archetype—not as youth or naïveté, but as the deep intelligence of new beginnings. The work is steeped in ancestral rites, symbolic language, seasonal practices, and the return to inner sovereignty. This body of work is a re-entry—a gathering of what was shed, a tending of what still smoulders, a witnessing of what wishes to bloom. It is an honouring of the long walk back, with Brigid as light-bearer, breath-bringer, and flame-holder at the gate. This offering was grown through long winters, both literal and metaphorical, and is a threshold work born of my own grief and return. It holds over 40,000 words of original teaching, ritual, myth, and reflection rooted in Brigid’s seasonal, spiritual, and cultural wisdom. Brigid is not a borrowed archetype in my world—she is a living presence in my people’s cosmology. This work honours her with the depth she deserves, in the voice of someone born and raised in the culture she arises from.