{"id":47282470,"date":"2022-01-18T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=47282470"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:00:42","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-imbolc-countdown-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=47282470","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Imbolc Countdown Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Imbolc poem I pulled out of the archives.<\/h2>
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Imbolc is roughly a couple weeks away, and its approach is coming sooner than I\u2019ve realized. I\u2019ve finished the Brighid\u2019s mantle and a Brighid\u2019s cross I plan to give to the recipient. I\u2019m very happy with the way they\u2019ve turned out, and I will take some photos of them for you all to see around Imbolc.<\/p>

I decided to pull a journal poem I had written to Brighid during Imbolc 2016 and share it here, with some small modifications for clarity purposes. It contains a series of epithets that felt appropriate for Her. Some of them are traditional, while others are my own creation. Some of them reflect old beliefs and current ones.<\/p>

Epithet Poem<\/h3>

On Your day of fire,<\/p>

I whisper Your many names<\/p>

Exalted,<\/p>

Fiery Arrow,<\/p>

Shining Lady,<\/p>

Wordsmith,<\/p>

Starsmith,<\/p>

Divine Spark,<\/p>

First Snowdrop,<\/p>

Foster-mother,<\/p>

Confidant,<\/p>

Soul Friend,<\/p>

Beating of my heart,<\/p>

The ring of a sacred hammer,<\/p>

She of the Sunrise,<\/p>

Celestial Queen,<\/p>

Lady of Stars,<\/p>

The Sower of the Tree of Life,<\/p>

Primal One,<\/p>

Daughter of an Dagda,<\/p>

Woman of Weaving,<\/p>

Woman of Keening,<\/p>

Comforter of Many,<\/p>

The Heart of the Hearth,<\/p>

Healer,<\/p>

Flame of Inspiration,<\/p>

Bringer of Passion and Peace,<\/p>

Mother of the Land,<\/p>

Flower Maiden,<\/p>

Honey-tongued,<\/p>

Silver-tongued,<\/p>

Great Woman,<\/p>

Gentle Speaker,<\/p>

Fire of Eternity,<\/p>

Radiant Dandelion,<\/p>

Your names could go on forever.<\/p>

I only know a small part of who You are,<\/p>

but I know You are here and everywhere.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Imbolc poem I pulled out of the archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47282470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47282470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47282470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47282470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47282470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}