January

It is sacred to the Roman God Janus who ruled over endings and beginnings

Its Asatru name is Snowmoon and its American name is Wolf Moon

Britain –Frosts, snow, wet ,windy

Birds in urban areas where temperatures may be warmer

Leaves of daffodils showing

Foxes mate dusk til dawn

Animals that may be about include badgers, hedgehogs, foxes and squirrels

Lichens on bark of trees –they provide food for insects

Thrushes, dunnocks, skylarks may be heard

Southern England possible newts returning to ponds in preparation of breeding

Birthstone: Garnet

January 1
New Year's Day in the Gregorian calendar

Ring out the old

Ring in the new

Ring out the false

Ring in the true

Nativity eve of Inanna (Sumerian)

Zeus and Juno Roman God and Goddess

Sacred to the Goddess Fortuna

January 2
Advent of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of love.

The Nativity of Our Lady is one of the greatest Sumerian feasts of the year. The birth of Inanna, the princess of heaven and the queen of earth, is commemorated

As the weather is on the second of January so it will be in September

January 3
The festival of Pax the Roman goddess of peace 

The Deer Dance (Native American)

St Genevieve

Sacrifice to the seven seas (Greek)

January 5
The festival of Lares Compitales, the Roman guardian deities of crossroads.

Wassail Eve (UK)

Twelfth Night, Old Christmas

January 6
Feast of Kore, the celebration of Kore's, the Egyptian of fertility and grains, return to earth after six years of exile in the underworld.

Epiphany

January 7
Sekhmet, the Egyptian New Year's Day

Morrighan Fest

January 8
Festival of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice

Midwife's Day (Hecate, the Divine Midwife; Greece, Macedonia)

Themis Day (Greek)

 January 9
The Agonium, festival of Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings.

January 11

The Carmentalia, festival of Carmenta, the Roman goddess of childbirth.

Jutura (Italian Goddess of fountains

Compitalia Greek in honour of the Lares

 St Distaff’s Day

Frigg honoured

St Hilary

The Carmentalia, festival of Carmenta, the Roman goddess of childbirth

January 16
The Festival of Concordia, the Roman goddess of harmonious relations.

January 17
Good Luck Day, the festival of Felicitas, the Roman goddess of good luck.

The Taroh Feis (Druid)

January 20
Grandmother's Day, Baba Den (Bulgaria)

 St Agnes day

Apollo (Greek)  

St Vincent

Day of Hathor (Egyptian)

St Bridget’s Day

Cornish seafarer’s and tinners day

Burn’s Night (Scotland)

 Old Disting (Babylonian)

St Paul’s Day

Old Disting (Babylonian)

Day of Ishtar (Babylonia)

Up Helly-Aa (Viking)

January 29
Moon of Hecate the Crone (Roman)

 Up Helly-Aa (Viking)

Dax Romana – Feast of Peace (Roman) dedicated to the goddess Pax

January 31
Imbolc eve -The Ending of the Dark

Feast of Hecate (Greek)