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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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Mahatma Ghandi
Today is Mahamata Ghandi’s birthday so I felt it appropriate to write a short article. Born 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), he is often remember as a pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. What makes him stand out as a political activist is perhaps his philosophy of “Change through non-violence”. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon Ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: mahātmā or ‘Great Soul’. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Read the rest of this entry »
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