{"id":83221256,"date":"2022-11-08T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=83221256"},"modified":"2022-11-08T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T14:00:37","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-lunar-eclipse-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=83221256","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Lunar Eclipse Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A prayer in honor of the recent total lunar eclipse.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0925f18e-44af-499d-ad7a-b0594e9db8b1_2605x4629.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of the moon in four stages of an eclipse. The first one is partly red and partly shining. The next one is a vivid red, while the remaining two are covered by increasing darkness. Stars and wispy, cosmic gases are seen in the dark background.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@zoltantasi?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Zoltan Tasi<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/blood-moon?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lunar Eclipse Prayer<\/h3><p>Brighid of Moonlight,<\/p><p>transform Your radiance<\/p><p>to reflect crimson light<\/p><p>in Your sacred waters,<\/p><p>like fiery tendrils dancing.<\/p><p>Brighid of the Fire-in-Water,<\/p><p>may the moon\u2019s glow<\/p><p>inspire us to seek,<\/p><p>to know and to grow,<\/p><p>as tides stoking the flames.<\/p><p>Brighid of Smithcraft,<\/p><p>illuminate the moon<\/p><p>like a burning coal in the sky,<\/p><p>to shape, to strengthen,<\/p><p>when our hearts\u2019 mettle is tested.<\/p><p>Brighid of Healing,<\/p><p>imbue the moonlight<\/p><p>shining in Your wells<\/p><p>with clarity and vigor,<\/p><p>so that our minds aren\u2019t clouded.<\/p><p>Brighid of Poetry,<\/p><p>inspire our hands and hearts<\/p><p>to push the darkness away,<\/p><p>as a lantern, a beacon,<\/p><p>like moonlight upon a path.<\/p><p>Brighid of the Ancestors,<\/p><p>foster wisdom within us<\/p><p>to enlighten us to kindness,<\/p><p>the proper rhythms against injustice,<\/p><p>like the placement of Earth, moon, and sun.<\/p><p>As it was,<\/p><p>as it is,<\/p><p>as it ever shall be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer in honor of the recent total lunar eclipse.<\/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-83221256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221256","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=83221256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83221256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83221256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83221256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}