{"id":1099,"date":"2026-09-23T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:33:53","slug":"feast-with-miss-bri-brigid-and-maman-brigitte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodoopsychics.com\/library\/feast-with-miss-bri-brigid-and-maman-brigitte\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast With Miss Bri, Brigid, and Maman Brigitte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brigid, Maman Brigitte, Bride\u2026by whatever name you know Her, she is the one who calls us back home to ourselves; the one that endures, the one that reminds us that no matter how difficult things become and no matter how broken our paths and promise might be there is a constancy running through our lives and testifying to our essential ability to be whole and intact. Imbolg and Candlesmass are the names given to her specific Feast Days on February 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

Bride reflects us back to ourselves in the waters of her sacred well, and in the telling of her tale.<\/p>\n

Her beginnings are in ancient Ireland where she did not easily fit into any single category:<\/p>\n

Is she a mother?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she a maiden?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she an ancient and wizened one?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, that too, and everything in between including the occasional white cow, sheep, or goat.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she a Goddess of fire?\u00a0<\/strong>Indeed.<\/em><\/div>\n
But also a Goddess of water?\u00a0<\/strong>For certain.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she a witch?<\/strong>\u00a0Most certainly.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she a holy woman and Saint?<\/strong>\u00a0Of course.<\/em><\/div>\n
Is she a healer, a poet, a fertility bringer?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, all of that.<\/em><\/div>\n
But then is she also a warrior, a blacksmith, one that might show up in the tavern with the best stories to tell?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, she is all of those things as well.<\/em><\/div>\n

Some would say that she only became associated with the Dead and with the Ancestors when her veneration was brought into Haiti by indentured servants from Scotland and Ireland, who shared their love of Bride with the African slaves as both groups were forced to work the sugar plantations.<\/p>\n

It was in Haiti that she became Le Grande Brigitte and\/or Maman Brigitte, a powerful lwa in the Voudou pantheon recognized in the Caribbean as well as New Orleans and the Deep South.<\/p>\n

Her skin color, hair color, eye color, and accent changes from place to place, just as we change. Her refusal to fit neatly into any one box mirrors our own inability to do the same.<\/p>\n

For there are many ways to love her and many offerings to make; so whether you know her as the sheep milk and cheese loving great Goddess of Eire; the butter loving Saint who blesses all of the candles that will be used throughout the year, or the raucous woman who knows the cemetery like the back of her hand and likes hot peppers in her rum, Bride\u2019s request is the same:<\/p>\n

Bring all of who you are to my table. Leave no part behind, hold no part back. Remember the touchstones you call upon day in and day out, remember the deep unity you carry within you at all times, wherever it is, there you will find me waiting.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hoodoo Psychic M<\/a>iss Bri<\/a>\u00a0teaches the spiritual arts and is a popular author. Her free\u00a0Feast Days for the Radically Reverent<\/a> are open to all people who would like to come together to celebrate, request, and bless.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brigid, Maman Brigitte, Bride\u2026by whatever name you know Her, she is the one who calls us back home to ourselves; the one that endures, the one that reminds us that no matter how difficult things become and no matter how broken our paths and promise might be there is a constancy running through our lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t