If you like, you can read the whole ritual on the Web at:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4444/imbolc99.html
Hope you enjoy!
Eilidh
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O Bright Lady,
Firey arrow,
Mother of us all,
Undying flame in the hearts
of all the Gael,
and of all those you foster.
Keeper and dweller
of the hearth fire,
without and within us,
the warmth of home and family
without which we surely
would be cold and dead.
Mother of the spark
we carefully tend,
the germ of imbas,
the fire in the head,
gift to poets and musicians
and to all who would know your heat.
Heart of the flame
which drives the forge,
the fire of shaping,
of knowledge,
of forming the world
around and within us.
You of the triple flame,
please be with us now.
Stay and witness
from these tongues of fire,
as we honor you
in this, your season.
--1999, Eilidh NicRath