MARCH 2026

 

1st       Rekindling of the sacred flame in the Temple of Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. Preliminary hearings in the Salem Witch trials held 1692. Birthday of the Golden Dawn, 1888. Matronalia, Roman Festival of Women and Marriage. 1872, Yellowstone, becomes the US’s first national park. President John F Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961. National Welsh Day. Holi Festival, Auckland, NZ.

2nd     Mother March, Bulgaria. The first Groundhog Day is observed, Punxsutawney, PA in 1887.

3rd      World Wildlife Day. Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh 1847. Sacred to Idunn, Norse Fertility Goddess and Keeper of the apples of immortality.

4th        Festival of Rhiannon, the Celtic Moon Goddess. King Charles II of England granted a huge parcel of land to William Penn that later became known as Pennsylvania, USA. “Happy Birthday to you” is published by Claydon Sunny in 1924.

6th        The Compitalia Festival dedicated to the Roman Household Goddesses, the Lares. Mars Day. Birthday of Laurie Cabot, Wiccan author. Renaissance Genius Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy, 1475. In 1899 Felix Hoffman at the German Bayer Company patents aspirin.

7th        The Junonalia Festival, dedicated to the Roman Supreme Goddess, Juno.

8th        International Women’s Day

9th        Celebration of Aphrodite and Adonis. For all you doll fans out there, Mattel debuts Barbie dolls at the International American Toy Fair in New York City, US, 1959.

10th      Dedicated to Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love and Fertility.  Sacred to the Assyro-Babylonian Fertility Goddess Ishtar.

11th      Hercules Day, the Greek hero. Execution of Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar 1314. For the Star Trekkies, the ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are launched into space, 1997.

12th      Martyrdom of Hypatia, the Divine Pagan. Sacred to Marduk in ancient Babylonia. The Church of England ordained 32 women as its first female priests, 1994. That did not go down to well with the male ones of which many clergy and church members left and joined the Roman Catholic Church who did not allow women priests. Coca Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, US, 1894.

13th      Burgsonndeg Fire Festival celebrated in Luxemborg, Europe.

14th      Sacred to the Egyptian Mother and Cobra Goddess, Uazit. Veturius Mamurius, Roman Festival of Armour making. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, 1879. The first female dentist, Lucy Hobbs was born in New York State, 1833.

15th      Festival of Attis and the Mother Goddess, Cybele. Julius Caesar was assassinated 44 B.C.

16th      Feast of Dionysus, Greek God of the Vines. The Liberalia Festival dedicated to Libera, the Roman Goddess of Viticulture.

17th      Festival of Astarte, Canaanite. St Patricks Day, the patron saint of Ireland who burned many books and felt that only the rich should be able to read. Hated Witches!

18th      Feast of Athena, Greek Goddess of the hunt. Celtic Tree month of Alder begins. Sacred to Shelia-na-gig, the Celtic Fertility Goddess in Ireland. Birthday of Edgar Cayce, psychic researcher 1877.

19th      Feast of Minerva, Roman Goddess of wisdom, justice and the arts. Elizabethan statute against Witchcraft enacted, 1563, this statute was replaced in 1604 by a stricter one from King James I. Legendary gunfighter and lawman, Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, US, 1848. Nyepi celebration and Feast, Balinese.

20th      Autumn Equinox – Southern Hemisphere. Spring Equinox – Northern Hemisphere. Feast of Ba-nab-dedet, Egyptian God of Sexual fertility. International Astrology Day. 1930, Kentucky Fried Chicken is founded by Colonel Harlan Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky, USA. Death of Lady Sheba, Wiccan author of “The Book of Shadows” 2002.

21st      Mandate of Henry VIII against Witchcraft enacted in 1542, repealed in 1547. Dies Sanguinis, “Day of Blood” and traditional day of the Dedication of new priests to the Roman Mother, Cybele. A festival held on the Spring Equinox or any time usually March 21st – 25th. Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco USA is closed, 1963.

22nd     World Water Day

23rd      Dance of the Salii, an invocation of Saturn and Mars, in ancient Rome. Marzenna Spring Festival in Poland.

24th      St Gabriel’s the Archangels Day (old date later changed to September 29th)  Buddhist “Butter Lamp Festival” celebrated in Tibet to invoke the Gods and neutralize the power of Demons. Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist was born in Budapest, Hungary 1874.

26th      Greek Astrologer, geographer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens, motions of the stars and planets in 127. (2nd century)

28th      Birth of Kwan-Yin, the Goddess of compassion, celebrated in Taiwan. Scott Cunningham, Wiccan author dies, 1993.

29th      Coca Cola is invented, 1886 by John Pemberton a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia USA.

30th      Festival of Concordia, the Roman Goddess of Harmony. Vincent Van Gogh the post-impressionist painter was born in Groot Zundert, Holland, 1853. Said to be plagued by bouts of mental illness and despair he cut off his left ear and committed suicide by gunshot in 1890. 1867, the United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

31st      Festival of Luna, the Roman Moon Goddess. Last Witch Trial in Ireland, held at Magee Island 1711.

 

MOON PHASES

4th - FULL MOON. The Earth is between the Sun and Moon. The Moon, rising at sunset and setting at dawn, is 180-135 degrees behind the Sun. The Full Moon is the time to celebrate the complete.

11th - LAST QUARTER MOON. Time to clear out anything that hasn´t worked or isn´t needed. Rising at midnight and setting at noon, this Moon is 90-45 degrees behind the Sun. Time to clear out anything that hasn’t worked or isn’t working.

19th - NEW MOON. Start new projects. A time to plan and prepare especially if it is so cold outdoors and one just wants to curl up in front of the fire or heater. Think about what has been and what you would like to change and do in your future. New job, moving house, new relationship or perhaps a new life is coming into the family be it kith, kin, fur or fin. An ideal time to write up notes, fill in your book of shadows, journals and herbal grimoires as we work under the phase of the moon.

26th - FIRST QUARTER MOON. Rising at Noon and setting at Midnight, the Moon is 90-135 degrees ahead of the Sun. Light and dark are in equal balance. Consolidate and give form to projects. Be creative and deal with any challenges that may arise.

The Full Moon is in Virgo

Last Quarter Moon in Sagittarius 

The New Moon is in Aries

First Quarter Moon in Cancer

 

APOGEE AND PERIGEE  From timeanddate.com The Moon's orbit around Earth is not a perfect circle, but elliptical, with one side closer to Earth than the other. As a result, the distance between the Moon and Earth varies throughout the month and the year. On average, the distance is about 382,900 kilometers (238,000 miles). The point on the Moon's orbit closest to Earth is called the Perigee and the point farthest away is the Apogee. 

APOGEE (Furthest away from the Earth) 11th

PERIGEE (Closest to the Earth) - 23rd

Total Lunar Eclipse            2nd - 3rd

This is when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and its shadow covers the Moon.

 

THE MARCH STAR SIGNS 

PISCES - February 19th  – March 20th.

Symbol – Fish, Element – Water, Planet – Neptune, Quality – Mutable, Personal Creed- I believe, Negative/Feminine sign. The Two fish that symbolize the spiritual and material, expressed through the natural world.

Some of the Pisceans. Laurie Cabot, Prince Andrew, Peter Fonda, Ivana Trump, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash, Rudolph Steiner, Elizabeth Taylor, Mario Andretti, Ron Howard, Dr Seuss, Mikail Gorbachev, Jon Bon Jovi, Jean Harlow, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rob Reiner, Alexander III, Prince Edward, Michael Caine, Liza Minnelli, Billy Crystal, Jerry Lewis, Kurt Russell, Glenn Close, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter, Rob Lowe, Nat King Cole, Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, Pierre Auguste Renoir and George Harrison.

ARIES  March 21st – April 20th. 

Symbol – The Ram, Element – Fire, Planet – Mars, Quality – Cardinal, Personal Creed- I am, Positive/Masculine Sign. Assertive, courageous and ruled by the God of War, Aries will take on who or whatever ever comes his way.

Some of the Aries are Johann Sebastian Bach, Marlon Brando, Jackie Chan, Charlie Chaplin, Jeremy Clarkson, Robert Downey Jr, Guy Fawkes, James Franco, Aretha Franklin, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Goodall, Hugh Hefner, Adolf Hitler, Harry Houdini, Charlie Hunnam, Thomas Jefferson, Elton John, Heath Ledger, Ewan McGregor, Steve McQueen, Eddie Murphy, Gary Oldman, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Emma Thompson, Leonardo da Vinci, Emma Watson and Resse Witherspoon.

CELTIC LUNAR TREE

The Celtic Tree calendar is based on thirteen lunar divisions. Each division has a sacred tree assigned to it that were said to have been chosen by ancient Druids. The trees rich in history and folk lore have many magickal energies associated to them. Please note that the Celtic Tree calendar was written from the Northern Hemisphere.   .