1. Column of fire - Brigid's symbol.
2. The oak - Her
sacred tree.
3. Three
concentric circles - Her Trinity symbol throughout Celtic
Ireland.
4. The serpent,
wreathed around her head - Fertility designed to divert evil.
5. Two crescents
back to back - Immortality.
6. Mistletoe -
Celtic Druids used for fertility rights, also, "I
surmount difficulties."
7. The sun -
Brigid's feminine power.
8. Crescent moon
- Female symbol, always.
9. Nine branches
- Eight directions of the world with the center ninth. Nine is
significant to the triple Celtic Goddess (thrice three).
10. Nine white
stones - Nine virgins attendant on Brigid.
11. Swans with
gold or silver chains - Supernatural appearance of divinities,
solar and beneficent.
12. Brigid holds
rush cross - Four quarters of the year.
13. Water -
Access to the other world of foreknowledge.
14. The moon
symbol behind the tree - First later Christian cross, entwined
snakes.
15. Mist -
Initiation, soul pass from confusion to illumination.
16. Brigh
Brigaid holds the Scale of Justice - Weighing the sun and
moon.
17. St. Brigid
holds the Celtic Christian cross.
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