March

According to the Gregorian calendar, March is the third month of the year. According to the early Roman calendar, it was the first month and was called Martius. March has always had 31 days. Its name honours Mars, the Roman God of war.

March, named for Mars, was the first month of the Greek and Roman calendar. Mars is god of war but also of fertile soil, equivalent to the Greek Ares and Tiu or Tiwazn an old sky god of Europe. He is also equated with the Celtic Teutates and the Norse Tyr. Mars' original name was Mavors. After Jupiter, he is the chief Roman god, often called Marspater, "Father Mars." He has three aspects, the martial god Gradivus, the rustic god Silvanus, and the patron of the Roman state Quirinus. The wolf and the woodpecker are his sacred animals.

March was called Mi an Mháárta or am Mart in Ireland, the seed time, and Hrethmonath, "Hertha's month," by the Anglo-Saxons, honoring the earth mother Hertha or Nerthus. The Frankish name for March was Lentzinmanoth, "renewal month." The Asatru call it Lenting.

The first Full Moon of this month is called the Worm or Sap Moon. It shares the names Storm Moon with February and Moon of Winds with April. It may also be referred to as the Moon of the Snowbird, the Crow Moon, and Lenting Moon.

Brotsin: small tortoises and peacock butterflies appear, as to queen bumblebees

Summer migration from chiffchaffs, sand martins, swallows, blackcaps

Song thrushes start laying eggs

Nectar and pollen plants start to come into flower. Primroses are out in bloom

Toads and frogs have laid their spawn

Birthstone: Bloodstone

March 1

St David’s day –The patron St of Wales

The Matronalia, the primary feast of Juno, the chief Roman goddess.

The Feriae Marti, the festival of Mars, the Roman god of war.

New Year's Day in the old Roman calendar.

Iduna

March 2
Holy Wells Day

Day of Ceadda, the Celtic goddess of healing springs and holy wells.

Aegir (Teutonic)/St Winnal

Hina Matsuri (Japanese Dolls Festival)

Anthesteria 3 day festival (Greek)

Feast of Rhiannon (Welsh/Irish)

March 5

Navigium Isidis (Egyptian)

March 6

Compaitalia Greek in honour of the lares

St Martin

March 7

Junonalia in honour of Juno (Roman)

Phea Buddha Bat Fair (Thai)

March 8

Mother Earth Day (Chinese)

March 10

Hercules Day (Greek)

March 12

Feast of Marduk (Babylonia)

March 13

Feast of Purification (Balinese)

March 14

Equirria (Roman)

Verturius Mamurius festival (Roman)

Mars (Roman)

March 15
The Festival of Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess of the circle of the year. Her festival was celebrated on the full moon of the first month of the Roman year (the Ides of March).

Rhea (Greek)

Ides of March

March 16
The festival of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine

Festival of Holi (Hindu)

Dionysos (Roman)

St Patrick’s day –Patron saint of Ireland

The festival of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine

The Liberalia, the festival of Liber and Libera, a Roman fertility god and goddess.

Sheila Na Gig (Irish)

March 19
The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, but also of wisdom arts and trades.

The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, but also of wisdom arts and trades.

Iduna Norse Goddess

The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, but also of wisdom arts and trades.

Armenia Creator God Aramazd's Festival Am'nor

The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, but also of wisdom arts and trades.

The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, but also of wisdom arts and trades.

Summer Finding (Norse)

Marzenna (Polish)

Dance of Salii (Roman)

Tubilustrium of Mars (Roman)

Prytania/Britannia

Heimdall (Norse)

Gabriel

Hilaria Roman festival in honour of Cybele

Lady Day

Day the world was created by the demiurge (3^rd centaury Christian texts)

Mars (Roman)

Smell the Breeze Day (Egyptian)

Liberalia (Roman)

Liberalia (Roman)

The sacrifice of the tombs (Roman) Ancestor’s honoured

The sun and moon created (Christian De Pascha Computus 243CE)

Original Christmas date (Christian)

St Mark’s Eve (Gregorian) Time of divination

March 29

St Mark

March 30
The Festival of Salus, the Roman goddess of public safety and welfare.

Festival of Janus & Concordia (Roman)

March 31
The Festival of Luna, the Roman Goddess of the Moon