Today is February 1st—the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox—a time when seeds that have lain dormant in the frozen ground begin to sprout and grow. It is also called Imbolc, or Saint Brigid’s Day. The Celtic goddess Brigid (later Christianized as Saint Brigid) is credited as the goddess of fire, forge, and flame, change and transformation, poetry and inspiration, education and learning, metalworking, healing, creativity, wisdom, prophecy, fertility, and childbirth.
When this image came to me during meditation recently I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to shoot it or exactly what I wanted it to say. A few days later, I came across Phyllis Curott’s post about the goddess Brigid and her connection to writers and artists. I gravitated to the idea of writing having seeds, like plants, that lie dormant until the ground is fertile and ready for them to burst forth into tangible forms.
I’ve been working hard, writing my next novel, and I’m finally at a point where my characters are jumping off the page, telling me what they want to say. It’s a stage that feels like … magic. Even though I know that I’m showing up and putting words on the page, it’s starting to feel like the story exists as an entity unto itself. Like the seeds I planted through world building and back stories are starting to grow and take shape on their own. I’m looking forward to sharing more about what I’ve been working on in the coming months. But for now, I hope you’ll enjoy getting to see a little behind the scenes editing process for this new composite: inspired by the goddess of poets and storytellers, edited with the magic of Photoshop.
Sharisse Coulter 
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