{"id":43658,"date":"2020-01-01T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43658"},"modified":"2020-01-01T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:21:30","slug":"imbolc-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/imbolc-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Imbolc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the belly<br \/>\nIn the bag<br \/>\nBehold The hungry ewes<br \/>\nare gasping<br \/>\nTiny bodies<br \/>\nWanting of their dues<br \/>\nThe hot and creamy liquid<br \/>\nThat nurtures and that builds<br \/>\nBrigid patroness of flocks<br \/>\nThat frequents the green  fields<\/p>\n<p>Motherhood and smithing<br \/>\nNot forgetting poetry<br \/>\nThe &#8220;lady of the iales&#8221;<br \/>\nA &#8220;nursemaid to the sick&#8221;<br \/>\nShe be<br \/>\nA venerated true saint<br \/>\nRevered by druidry<br \/>\nHer girdle heales diseases<br \/>\nEach ovate clearly brings<br \/>\nFrom the triple goddess<br \/>\nOf healing wells and springs<br \/>\nThe Oyster catcher cometh<br \/>\nGiving guidance to<br \/>\nBoam her mother constant<br \/>\nAs cow goddess of the white moon<br \/>\nknew what she had to do<\/p>\n<p>And the cows from time immorial<br \/>\nBecame sacred everyone<br \/>\nThe midpoint<br \/>\nof the dark half year<br \/>\nHopeful that the sun<br \/>\nIs on its bout of warming<br \/>\nWhere other streams now flow<br \/>\nWithin the earth the sod itself<br \/>\nWhere bulbs and seeds will grow<\/p>\n<p>The light is coming back again<br \/>\nThe worms move from their place<br \/>\nThe moles run along  tunnels<br \/>\nTheir heaps now form a base<br \/>\nAround the eternal standing stones<br \/>\nThe cockels let them be<br \/>\nBlessings on the sacred forge<br \/>\nWhere candles constantly<\/p>\n<p>Flicker burn and heat the air<br \/>\nThe oxygen of light<br \/>\nHere we all descend into the caves<br \/>\nThe iron ore night<br \/>\nAhead of us the forest<br \/>\nAnd the river burning bright<br \/>\nOur ritual clad in splendour<br \/>\nThe ancestral shadows be<br \/>\nWith us for the order is the<br \/>\nTrue fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the belly In the bag Behold The hungry ewes are gasping Tiny bodies Wanting of their dues The hot and creamy liquid That nurtures and that builds Brigid patroness of flocks That frequents the green fields Motherhood and smithing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/imbolc-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43660,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43658\/revisions\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}