{"id":299,"date":"2015-03-02T04:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=299"},"modified":"2015-03-02T04:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:14:35","slug":"march-esoteric-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/march-esoteric-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"March Esoteric Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Juno<\/a>
Marriage Goddess Juno annually blesses\u00a0each sacred marriage as long as a gift and praise are exchanged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 1<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Roman New Year, also called Matronalia, the Kalends of March. The word\u00a0“Mother” is the root of Matronalia and it was a sort of mother’s\u00a0day and\u00a0sacred marriage day to ancient Romans.\u00a0Men would give gifts to\u00a0wives\u00a0& mothers. When a man presented the gift to his wife on this day, she would then praise her husband as part of an annual repeat of the marriage ceremony. Women would take flowers and incense to the\u00a0temple of Mother Goddess Juno Lucina in honor of its\u00a0construction on March 1st,\u00a0375\u00a0B.C.
\n– \u00a0St. David’s Day<\/p>\n

March 1-2<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Mahashivaratri – Hindu fast, night vigil, and feast for God-Goddess Shiva-Shakti (union of Will and Power), who dances to create, destroy, and re-create the universe. Tantric Hindus believe Shiva is within all men and Shakti within all women; they recognize gender equality and reject caste.<\/p>\n

March 2<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Holy Wells’ Day (Norse)<\/p>\n

March 3<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Aegir’s Day (Teutonic)
\n– Japanese Doll Festival<\/p>\n

March 4<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Feast of Rhiannon (Welsh)
\n– Egyptian Day
\n– Anthesteria (Greek)
\n– Mothering Day (English)<\/p>\n

March 5<\/b>\u00a0– <\/span>Navigium Isidis – Old Egyptian festival honoring Goddess Isis as Lady of the Moon and Ruler of the Sea; celebrated with the launching of a boat of offerings.
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 Purim 2015, the day Esther saved her people from genocide. Let’s think of others in the world presently at risk of genocide, such as the middle eastern Christians<\/p>\n

March 6<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Mars Day, Mars if the god this month gets its name from
\n– Alamo Day. “Remember the Alamo!”<\/p>\n

March 7<\/strong> – Bird and Arbor Day<\/p>\n

March 8-9<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana) – as protector of wild animals and vegetation<\/p>\n

March 8<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Birthday of Mother Earth (Chinese)
\n– International Women’s Day\u00a0(esotericists often\u00a0observe this day\u00a0by reading poetry, wearing beautiful purple and\/or red hats…)<\/p>\n

March 9<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>– Mother Goddess Day, Honoring all Mother Goddesses
\n– \u00a0Feast of the 40 Martyrs (Greek) also called 40 Saints Day
\n–\u00a0 Celebration of Aphrodite and Adonis (Greek), a Sacred Marriage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 1\u00a0– Roman New Year, also called Matronalia, the Kalends of March. The word\u00a0“Mother” is the root of Matronalia and it was a sort of mother’s\u00a0day and\u00a0sacred marriage day to ancient Romans.\u00a0Men would give gifts to\u00a0wives\u00a0& mothers. When a man presented the gift to his wife on this day, she would then praise her husband … Continue reading March Esoteric Holidays<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}