Brigid's Wheel

[icymist]

Brigid is one of the other names of Imbolc, the pagan feast at the start of February. As the name implies, this holiday is sacred to the Irish goddess Brigid. Brigid is a fire goddess, a blacksmith, a healer, a midwife, etc... You can read all about Her in some of the other articles in this issue, or in old Imbolc issues on Widdershins' web page. In this article, I am going to focus one specific aspect of Brigid, Her cross.

Brigid's Cross is a cross with even length arms. The arms are joined off center to the left and often (though not in this picture) taper down to points at the ends. It looks like figure 1.

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