I do think CS Lewis was on to something when he wrote about the lure of being in the Inner Ring. (“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”)

www.lewissociety.org/innerring/

Thanks for saying 🙏

We did not make up the link between Bridget and Brigette. Like any of this it is hard to be 100% with any of it but we spoke with priestess of hers and people of the vodun faith, so hopefully we got everything right!

Finally it's good to note that 1st February is not the start of spring/Imbolc really. That's a human connotation. The first day of the new season is when the snowdrops appear. Keep an eye out and stay well x

Perhaps not but it resonates with the beliefs and practices that have always been there and grow stronger by the year. Either way, today marks the end of the darker days. For those of us still alive, we've made it through another dark season and brighter days are ahead.

Today I heard tell that old pagan beliefs were strong in Ireland much recently than imagined. Christianity only took its real grip on the country in the wake of the famines and not as far back as previously understood.

As with all these myths there is no clear consistency but she's often cited as being from Kildare or Faughart in Louth. The latter is near my homeland and more impact on me so I take that as her place. There's a shrine there with a pilgrimage this day each year.

Across the country are various events. It's the first bank holiday for a woman, too, which is nice.

In SoBM we refer to the goddess as Bríd for clarity (which is also her name) but both the goddess and the saint are commonly known as Bridget. Today was Bridget's day, the saint or the goddess depending on your world view.

The dev team are all Irish or live/lived here 🌠

We can manage that.

@rianjohnson.bsky.social wanna talk? 😁

I ended up playing Darkside Detective for the first time ever on switch instead of doom scrolling, and I have to say it was a good choice.