The Truth About St. Patrick's Day (That Nobody Talks About)

As an Irish woman living in the States, I get asked all the time: "How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland?"

And it's always annoyed me. I really didn't know why, until I discovered the real truth of what St. Patrick did in Ireland.

Even growing up in Ireland, I never liked St. Patrick's Day. Lots of my energetically aware friends felt the same way. Without knowing why, this day just always felt "off." You may have felt this yourself.

Every year without fail, it rains so hard on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland. That's not a coincidence. The Earth knows it needs massive cleansing on that day.

Here's why:

The Real Story

First of all, St. Patrick was not even from Ireland. He was from Great Britain and was a Christian. He came to Ireland with an agenda: to bring a foreign religion and replace people's beliefs.

At that time in Ireland, the people had their own ancient spiritual tradition — a Celtic, earth-based way of life, led by the Druids who were the wisdom keepers of the land.

St. Patrick was instrumental in destroying the Druids' natural way of being with the earth in Ireland and imposing Christianity and its religious beliefs on the people and the land.

The famous story of "driving the snakes out of Ireland"? There were never snakes in Ireland. The snakes represented the Druids, the earth wisdom, the connection to nature that was woven into Celtic culture.

We're celebrating the erasure of an entire way of being.

The Lies We've Been Sold

I think we can all see by now that with the spread of religions came lies, manipulation and stories being changed.

Women being kept out of the Bible. Powerful women reframed as prostitutes. Others placed on pedestals as virgins — all to create a split in the psyche of the true feminine and control the narrative.

As an Irish woman who cares deeply about the natural way of life, being connected to the Earth and living in sync with nature: I cannot support this day of celebrating a man the church decided to name a saint, who doesn't come from Irish earth wisdom but instead came to dismantle it.

Sorry, Not Sorry

Sorry, not sorry if I just ruined your St. Patrick's Day.

So many lies are being exposed these days — and I know the only truth really lies in nature for me.

I think the time is finally coming where we return to the natural way of life and expose the lies of what we've been sold through stories and traditions that were just handed down to us without us questioning:

What am I celebrating?

What is the true story behind this?

Is this something I truly support?

Maybe it's not St. Patrick's Day for you. Maybe there's another day, holiday, ritual that makes you feel “uneasy”, one you might want to question and dig deeper on to find the truth behind what you were told.

This is the new world we are all creating together.

Thanks for reading,

Amy

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