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Celtic Pantheon: Brigid

by Tabitha Kosicki October 03, 2025 2 min read

Brigid (also spelled Brighid, Brigit, or Bride) is one of the most beloved goddesses of the Celtic pantheon. She is a triple goddess of healing, poetry, and smithcraft, combining the powers of creation, inspiration, and transformation. In Ireland, she was so revered that her worship blended into Christianity as Saint Brigid of Kildare.

She is associated with fire and flame, but not just destructive fire—hers is the flame of the hearth, the forge, and the creative spark. Brigid is a patroness of poets, midwives, healers, and artisans. She presides over the thresholds of transformation—birth, initiation, and the turning of the seasons.


Symbols & Colors

  • Colors: White (purity), Red/Orange (fire, forge, inspiration), Green (fertility, earth, healing)

  • Symbols: Eternal flame, forge, anvil, well, cauldron, crossroads, livestock (especially cows and sheep)

  • Animals: Swan, cow, ewe/lamb, serpent

  • Plants/Herbs: Blackberry, heather, oak, rosemary, mugwort, angelica

  • Sacred Sites: Holy wells and springs, fire temples, especially in Kildare, Ireland


Crystals & Stones

Brigid’s energy is both fiery and healing. Crystals aligned with her include:

  • Carnelian – creativity, vitality, courage

  • Garnet – grounding passion, blood mysteries, protection

  • Amber – solar energy, warmth, purification

  • Citrine – inspiration, creativity, abundance

  • Moonstone – intuition, fertility, cycles (especially tied to her as a goddess of childbirth and midwifery)

  • Bloodstone – healing, strength, life force

  • Quartz (clear or rose) – amplification, blessing of sacred water and wells


Rituals & Offerings

Brigid is honored at Imbolc (February 1–2), a festival marking the first stirrings of spring, lambing season, and the return of light. Traditional practices include:

  • Candle Rituals: Lighting a flame in her honor, calling on her for inspiration and healing.

  • Water Blessings: Visiting wells or springs, leaving offerings of coins, ribbons, or clooties (prayer cloths).

  • Brigid’s Cross: Crafting her woven cross from rushes or straw to hang in the home for protection.

  • Creative Acts: Writing poetry, singing, painting, or crafting at her altar.

  • Healing Work: Preparing herbal remedies, blessing tools of midwifery, or asking for guidance in caregiving.

  • Offerings: Milk, honey, bread, seeds, fresh flowers, candles, woven cloth.


Metaphysical Work with Brigid

  • Inspiration & Creativity: Invoke Brigid when seeking clarity in writing, art, music, or problem-solving.

  • Healing: Call on her during physical or spiritual healing rituals; use herbs, crystals, and blessed waters.

  • Protection: Place Brigid’s Cross or light a flame in her name to safeguard your home.

  • Forge & Transformation: Ask her blessing when beginning new projects, especially those that require courage and perseverance.

  • Threshold Magic: Brigid stands at liminal spaces—between winter and spring, birth and death, darkness and light. She is ideal to call upon during times of transition.


Invocation Example

"Brigid of the flame, Brigid of the well,
Keeper of hearth, healing, and spell,
Guide my hands, inspire my art,
Kindle your fire within my heart." 

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