The Divine Feminine is alive and thriving here in Kildare, Ireland! Visiting Ireland has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl when my Father gave me a book on Irish mythology. Additionally, since I’ve discovered Saint Brigid many years ago, I felt a deep affinity for her. The more I learned, the more the resonance grew. Here are a few notes about her:

- She is one of the three Patron Saints of Ireland.
- She’s known to have been the first (and only) female Bishop of the Catholic Church in the 5th century where Christianity was new and still infused with the mysticism of Celtic spirituality.
- Stories of Goddess Brigid and Saint Brigid are deeply woven together and impossible to tease apart.
- Her feast day is the same as the Celtic holiday of Imbolc.
- She established a rare co-ed monastery in Kildare, Ireland where the sacred fire of the Goddess Brigid has been kept alive for thousands of years. Her nuns/priestesses eventually became in charge of it, and it was said to have never produced ash. Eventually, it was extinguished in the 1600’s.
- She was known for her generosity, healings and other miracles.
- She built her church on a former pagan site near a sacred oak and the Goddess Brigid’s fire temple.
- The nuns in Kildare had her flame relit in the 1990’s and still tend to it until this day.
- She’s never been canonized as a saint, but in Ireland she’s honored and revered not only as a saint, but as a Goddess.

Within these photos you will see her holy well, her church with the relic of her skull inside the small silver statue of the oak tree, her old monastery, the ruins of the fire temple, and the relit sacred flame. I am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to receive the deep peace these sacred grounds radiate and the gifts of the Divine Mother as she expresses herself in the form of the Saint/Goddess Brigid.