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March 2010
March 1st, 2010 | 
Author: | 1 | Annual | National Day of Wales. Feast day of St David. |
| 1 | 1887 | The western occult society, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, was founded. Members include the poet WB Yeats and occultist AE Waite, creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck. |
| 1 | Annual | Matronalia, the Roman Festival of Motherhood |
| 3 | Annual | The third day of the third month is considered a good time for witches to perform spells of self-empowerment. Invoke the Triple Goddess of the Full/Waxing/Waning Moon and charge up your energies. |
| 4 | Annual | Sacred to Rhiannon, Celtic Mother Goddess. Listen to the song Rhiannon by Fleetwood Max |
| 4 | 1968 | The Church of All Worlds in America, was formerly chartered becoming the first federally recognised church of Neo-Paganism |
| 5 | 1936 | The British fighter plane Spitfire made its first test flight from Eastleigh, Southampton. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine the aircraft will enter service with the Royal Air Force in the next two years |
| 7 | 1876 | The Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone. |
| 7 | 2009 | NASA’s Kepler Mission, a space photometer which will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. |
| 8 | Annual | International Women’s Day United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace |
| 8 | Annual | Cranberra Day is a public holiday in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on the second Monday of March each year. It commemorates Canberra’s official founding in 1913 and highlights a major festival in the territory. |
| 11- 13 | Annual | Festival of Holi, Central Asia. The Festival of Holi begins on March’s Full Moon and is the first major festival in the Hindu calendar. While the first day of Holi is signified through the lighting of fires, the second day is celebrated by people all over Northern India, Nepal and Mauritius who spend the day throwing colored water around. |
| 13 | Annual | This is said to be a lucky day for witches due to significant numerological vibrations. This is a time to do things that you have been putting off as results are guaranteed |
| 15 | 44BC | “Beware the Ides of March” – Julius Caesar is stabbed by Marcus Brutus. |
| 15 | Annual | Tagata Shrine Hohen Festival, Nagoya, Japan. The village of Komati (just north of Nagoya City) hosts a truly bizarre harvest festival. Komati celebrates the harvest (and continuing fertility). In order to offer a symbol of fertility to a designated deity, the residents of the small town carry a hulking great phallus through the streets, before setting it down in front of a shrine. Meanwhile, onlookers cling to smaller incarnations, while snacking cheerfully on penis-shaped foods. |
| 15 | Monthly | New Moon |
| 16 | Annual | Rosh Chodesh Nissan |
| 17 | Annual | Green, green, and more green. St. Patrick’s Day. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland, but in the United States. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 176. http://www.history.com/content/stpatricksday/history-of-the-holiday |
| 18 | Annual | Sacred to Sheila-na-gig, Pagan Fertility Goddess |
| 19 | Annual | Las Fallas celebrated in Valencia, Spain. Over a five day period leading up to St. Joseph’s Day, satirical statues made of paper-mache are displayed throughout the city of Valencia. Then, come the 19th, they’re set on fire! |
| 20 | Annual | Mabon (Southern Hemisphere) |
| 20 – 21 | Spring Equinox (Northern Hemisphere) when the length of daytime is exactly equal to the length of night time, thousands gather round the ancient Mayan ruin at Chichen Itza and gaze as the temple’s steps cast the shadow of a snake creeping down towards the ground. | |
| 20 – 23 | Annual | Ostara, one of the lesser Sabbats. It is a time of initiation into male mysteries and celebration as Spring is under way and the land is waking up (Northern Hemisphere) |
| 21 | Annual | International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| 21 – 28 | Annual | Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination |
| 22 | Annual | World Water Day |
| 23 | Annual | World Meteorological Day |
| 24 | 1603 | The crowns of England and Scotland were united when King James VI of Scotland succeeded to the English throne. |
| 26 | 1902 | British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes died in Cape Town aged 48. Rhodes who controlled 90% of the world’s diamond production, was influential in establishing the British crown in South Africa and Rhodesia. |
| 27 | 1871 | England and Scotland played their first rugby international, in Edinburgh; first blood to Scotland. |
| 27 | Annual | Lazarus Saturday is the day before Palm Sunday and is part of the Easter celebration of Eastern Orthodox Church and observes the time when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead depicting Jesus’ power over life and death. Christians have celebrated the day before Palm Sunday as “The Saturday Of Lazarus”. |
| 30 | Monthly | Full Moon |
| 30 – 6/4 | Annual | Pesach/Passover. Passover begins at sundown on 29 March and ends at sunset on 6 April. |
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January 2010
| 1st | New Year’s Day, very significant day in medieval superstitions regarding prosperity, or lack of it, in the year ahead |
| 1st | Global Family Day, grew out of the United Nations millennium celebration, “One Day of Peace,” January 1, 2000 |
| 1st | World Day of Peace, established by Pope Paul VI |
| 1st | Being the first day of a New Year, it is appropriate to honour Janus |
| 2nd | Believed by the Saxons to be one of the unluckiest days of the year |
| 3rd | Sacred to Dionysus, Greek God of Wine. Feasting, pleasure and fertility |
| 4th | Louis Braille was born in 1809. He was 3 years old when he lost his sight as a result of an accident |
| 4th | Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday |
| 6th | World day for War Orphans |
| 8th | Sacred to Freya, Norse Goddess of love and fertility and to Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune. |
| 13th | St Hilary’s feast day |
| 15th | The first solar eclipse of 2010 occurs at the Moon’s ascending node in western Sagittarius. An annular eclipse will be visible from a 300-km-wide track that traverses central Africa, the Indian Ocean and eastern Asia. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2010.html#SE2010Jan15A |
| 15th | New Moon |
| 17th | The Beatles UK album Yellow Submarine was released, 1969 |
| 18th | Martin Luther King, Jr Day |
| 19th | Sacred to Thor, Norse God of thunder and lightning |
| 23rd | Sacred to Hathor, Egyptian cow-headed Goddess |
| 24th | Compliment Day. This day was created in 1998 by Kathy Chamberlin, of Hopkinton, NH. and Debby Hoffman, of Concord, NH |
| 24 – 26th | Celebrations to honour Gaea. A temple was built approximately 268 BC on the forum Pacis. This is where her celebrations were held and pregnant cattle were sacrificed to her. The main celebration (Sementivae) was held between January 24 until 26 January |
| 25th | Burns Night |
| 27th | Mozart was born in 1756 in Austria |
| 27th | International Holocaust Remembrance Day |
| 28th | Data Protection Day |
| 29th | The Victoria Cross originated in 1856. The medals were made from the metals of guns in the Crimea |
| 30th | Full Moon |
| 31st – 2nd Feb | From sunset on the 31st Jan to sunset on the 2nd Feb is the Festival of Imbolc (31st July – 2nd August in southern hemisphere) |
| The month of January:
Birthstone: Garnet Birth flower: Carnation Capricorn (22 December – 20 January) Aquarius (21 January – 18 February) |
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| See January’s newsletter here; there’s also lots more information available on my blog. | |
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October 2009
Birthstone: Opal
Libra (23 September – 23 October): Ruled by Venus. Use Libra energy for harmony, love, understanding, justice and a balanced outlook – and for all things beautiful.
Scorpio (24 October – 22 November): Ruled by Mars in the ancient system, now ruled by Pluto. Use Scorpio energy for penetration, courage and endurance, passion, transformation, perception, concealment and willpower.
2 October: Sukkot begins
2 October: Mahatma Ghandi’s birthday
3 October: Full Moon
5 October: World Teacher’s Day
9 October: Sacred to Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune and luck.
15 October: Sacred to Mars, Roman God of battle.
17 October: Diwali
18 October: A day to honour Cernunnos, the Pagan Horned God of fertility, wild animals, forests and hunting.
31 October: Samhain is one of the four Greater Sabbats and an agricultural festival. On land, it is the third and last harvest of the year (Lammas and Mabon being the first two) and a time to store the final food stores away for Winter. Samhain is the beginning of the Witch’s year, a time of divination and prophecy and a time to honour the dead.
All month: Create your own good luck this month by putting last month’s period of reflection into action; be courageous and passionate.
See my blog for more on the above.
Spellworking and the phases of the Moon
Ideally, you should cast spells in harmony with the cycles of the moons to achieve the most effective results. The moon phases, what they mean and which spells are good to do during each phase are listed below:
The new moon is the beginning of the lunar cycle. The moon is completely in line with the sun and the earth so we see a dark sky with no visible moon. It’s a time of newness and rejuvenation. The new moon is the three days after the new face of the moon and includes the day of the new face of the moon. Spells for this period include new beginnings of any sort, beauty, health, personal improvement or new employment. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blue moon, dark moon, full Moon, Moon phases, new moon, spells, waning Moon, waxing Moon |
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The Moon and magic
Although there are 8 astrological phases of the Moon, magic focuses on 3 particularly significant phases; the waxing moon, full moon and the waning moon.
A waxing moon refers to the phase when the Moon increases in size. The light increases while creating a visual illusion that the light spreads from right to left. This phase lasts until just before the Moon becomes completely visible which is the full moon phase. Magick during a waxing moon should focus on increase, abundance or attracting good. The greater the size of the moon (the closer it is to being full), the more powerful its energies are. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: full Moon, Magic, magick, Moon magic, Moon potency, The Moon, triple goddess, waning Moon, waxing Moon |
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