title: Tending Brigid's Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge
author:  Lunaea Weatherstone 
description: <b>Lunaea Weatherstone</b>(Portland, Oregon) is a priestess dedicated to Brigid and a flamekeeper tending the Goddess's perpetual flame. As priestess, writer, teacher, and tarot counselor, Lunaea has served the Pagan community for more than twenty-five years, including her time as owner/editor of<i>SageWoman</i>magazine. As Grove Mother for the Sisterhood of the Silver Branch, she offers year-long programs in goddess spirituality. Lunaea has been working with the tarot for forty years and is the author of the <i>Victorian Fairy Tarot</i> and the <i>Mystical Cats Tarot</i>.
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  The Lore of the Lucius Ring
  
  Prologue
  
  Ever My Love—The Lore of the Lucius Ring
  
  by
  
  Kathryn Le Veque
  
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  128 A.D.
  
  
  The Junii Villa, 8 miles northwest of Rome
  
  IT WAS A strong breeze that swept off the Tyrrhenian Sea, a breeze that was a
  breath from the gods, from Poseidon as he bellowed angrily at the land which
  he could not dominate. This summer season had been unusually warm and the sea
  breezes reflected that unnatural heat. The locals said that it was because
  Hades had left the gates of hell open and what they were experiencing was the
  great belches of infernal fire, but Theodosia dismissed the native dramatics
  as she usually did. Moreover, she had no time for such things. These days, she
  had little time for anything other than her own grief.
  
  On the placid morning, Theodosia sat upon a cushioned chair in the
  peristylium, a garden area that was towards the rear of her parents’ villa
  outside of Rome. It was a villa that had been in her family 