Happy Friday, and Welcome to March!

March 6 New Moon at 8:03 am PST  / 9:03 am MST / 11:03 am EST

March 10 Daylight Savings Time Ends at 2am

March 17 St. Patrick’s Day

March 18 Celtic Month of Alder begins

March 20 Spring Equinox/ Ostara

March 20 Full Storm Moon 6:42 pm PST  /7:42 pm MST /9:42 pm EST

March 29 National Vietnam War Veteran’s Day

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The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars or Ares, the Greek god of war. •March’s birthstones are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage.

•March birth flower is the Daffodil

• March Star Signs are Pisces and Aries

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Among the Wiccan sabbats, it is preceded by Imbolc and followed by Beltane. In the book Eight Sabbats for Witches by Janet and Stewart Farrar, the festival Ostara is characterized by the rejoining of the Mothe Goddess and her lover-consort-son, who spent the winter months in death. Other variations include the young God regaining strength in his youth after being born at Yule, and the Goddess returning to her Maiden aspect. Ostara is the virgin Goddess of spring. This holiday concerns the deity’s trip to the underworld, and their struggle to return from the Land of the Dead to Earth. When they accomplish this return, they have a life renewed. It was considered bad luck to wear anything new before Ostara, so the people would work through the winter in secret to make elegant clothes for the Sabbat celebration.

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