Building

I spent this weekend at my dad’s, and spent Sunday making footers for the stairs/deck for my new apartment! I’m moving in a month.

Being at my dad’s I wasn’t able to do the ritual things I’d normally do, but She was closer to my mind than usual. I truly enjoyed the trip…but those 80 lb bags of concrete are heavy! lol

 

Long Time No See!

Hey, everyone. I apologize for my long, long, long hiatus. With graduating, working, and preparing to move back to Texas this summer, I’ve been both extremely busy and extremely lazy.

The first step towards my new chapter of life is to find some kind of employment. I am planning on moving to Austin, and so I’ve been looking for jobs there. I recently found a position that sounds absolutely perfect, and best of all, sounds like something I am absolutely qualified for.

Today, I got my first phone interview with the company. After several days of preparation before hand, I thought I was ready. However, I was still nervous, and so I asked Brighid and Ogma to lend me eloquence, strength and confidence. The interview went great–despite my being asked questions that I was not prepared for! I felt strong, and stood straight, as Brighid held me up today, and felt Ogma’s honey-tongue in my mouth answering questions, and gaining really positive and encouraging feedback from the interviewers.

Even if I am not called back for a second interview, or even if I am but don’t end up getting the job, I know that I did a great job with the interview and that Brighid will always be there for me, if I just ask her to be.

What have you asked for, and gained? How did you show your gratitude? For that matter, how should I show my gratitude to Ogma and Brighid, besides the small offering of milk I gave them this morning? Any ideas?

 

Being My Own Role Model

Inspired by this post by Dianne Sylvan (whom I absolutely adore), here is my list of things that I can do- many of them quite well. (I encourage you to check out Dianne’s original post so that you know why I’m doing this.)

I draw and paint well enough to drop peoples’ jaws.

I take amazing photographs.

I write beautiful poetry.

I write and perform meaningful rituals.

I read both Runes and Tarot.

I create beautiful flowers out of copper.

I make beautiful jewelery.

I don’t know how fast I type, but it’s fast enough to make people drop their jaws and ask “how do you do that?”

I can find my way to do pretty much anything I want to do on a computer.

I manipulate photographs and create banners/logos etc. in freeware programs better than a lot of people do with PhotoShop.

I can dislocate most of the joints in my body.

I’m a good swimmer.

I keep going no matter how rough things get.

I move energy like nobody’s business.

I dance.

I make people smile.

If I really want something, I find a way to make it happen.

I’m not afraid to take a risk, like jumping on a train and taking a 2000 mile trek to Minnesota to chase a dream.

Now GO, all of you, and create your own list. 😀

 

Brighid’s calling

Lately I have been feeling the urge to write more.  I joined a roleplay, and I have been blogging on my wordpress account, including writing a short story, and have figured out a short story written largely with pictures that tells a simple tale that talks about how to face a disease, and is more for children, although adults should get something out of it.  I even found a writer’s blog on wordpress that helps you know things to help get published!

I figure Brighid is calling 😉

 

Gina

 

Grandbaby News!

I am going to be a grandmother! I found out Monday.  My daughter is due November 12.  We are praying for a healthy baby, especially with the fact that our beautiful little accident was conceived the natural way, as opposed to the scientific way via in vitro that my daughter was going to be doing, in order to have a healthy baby, since we have a mitochondrial defect called Narp.     

Gina

 

Keeping My Promise

Hey everybody, I had told Brighid a few months ago I would do something special on Her day to dedicate myself to Her, and guess what? She made sure I kept my promise!

I was going through my email, and came across one from Danmara from months ago, and I sent her one, since I hadn’t been that active for some time with emails or anything, and another friend sent me an email wishing me Happy Imbolc/St. Brighid’s Day and I think I got soundly reminded LOL.   Then I was asking about cill work, and Danmara led me here.

Thanks Brighid 🙂

 

Gina

 

Welcome Gayars!

I’d like to proudly welcome Gayars to our (tiny) little family!

*smiles* Just in time for Brighid’s Fire/Imbolc.

Welcome!

 

Absence

It’s been a while since I’ve posted in here. Depression makes just about everything unbearable, but, for me, it makes writing, and focusing on spirituality and creativity, absolutely agonizing.

I just wanted to post a little note just saying that I am going to try to be more active and more present from now on. Depression also robs me of the sense I have a presence, or a body, or solid ground to stand on. Depression makes me, literally, a ghost.

But writing in here, and serving Brighid, makes me whole again, and gives me a body. I do not want to be this hungry ghost. I want to be myself again.

May Brighid keep us and bless us all on our paths.

 

Creative Work for Brighid

As part of my work while I was with the Cauldron Cill, I dedicated all of my creative work to Brighid, if it wasn’t specifically done for another deity.

This is the first creative anything I’ve done in a long time. I have been in a real rut of late. This was done, as it so happens, as a part of my recovery. Butterflies are significant to me personally in several ways.

As such I thought it appropriate to post it here.

 

Brighid’s Lantern

I’ve been thinking and talking a little bit about one of my personal symbols–the lantern. Not only is the lantern a very powerful personal symbol to me, it’s a powerful symbol of Brighid (my UPG), and my relationship to Her.

I’ve always been Brighid’s poet, and I’ve always been Her lantern; She is the light that shines through that lantern. I hold that light up and illuminate the world with my work–Her work.

What other symbols could describe your relationship with Brighid? If so, how, and why?