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Month of dedication to Februa, Roman Goddess of love and fertility. Februa, also Februatio was the Roman festival of purification, also commonly referred to as Lupercalia. The festival is basically one of spring washing or cleaning, which occurred on the 15th day of the Roman month. A later Roman god Februus personified both the month and also purification, and is named for them.
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| Wednesday 1st / Thursday 2nd |
Feast of the Goddess Brigit;
Celtic festival of Imbolc Candlemas - 'If Candlemas Day be dry and fair The half of winter is to come, and mair, If Candlemas Day be wet and foul, The half of the winter is gone at Yule. Festival of Ceres - Sacred to the Roman Goddess of grain. |
| Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th |
Feast of Goddess Isis (Egyptian)
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| Sunday 5th |
Feast of the Air Spirits (Celtic)
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| Monday 6th |
Festival of Aphrodite (Greek) Feast of IA (Celtic) |
| Tuesday 7th |
Full Moon Day of Selene (Greek) |
| Wednesday 8th |
In 1855 the inhabitants of Devon were waking to a light snowfall, intrigued to find a track of footprints extending for 100 miles in a near straight line, appearing to have been made by a cloven-hooved, two-legged animal, which has defied explanation to this day
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| Thursday 9th |
Feast of Apollo (Greek) the god of the sun, which celebrates the increasing light of the New Year after the darkness of midwinter.
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| Friday 10th |
Festival of Teutates - ancient Celtic god of war, fertility and wealth
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| Saturday 11th to 14th |
Lunar New Year (Old European)
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| Sunday 12th |
Festival of Diana, Roman Goddess of Light, Moon Goddess, Lunar Virgin,Goddess of Wildwood, Divine Huntress, Protector of Animals, Lady of Beasts
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| Monday 13th |
Disting - Festival at the beginning of the Norse Spring. Offerings were made to the Deities (particularly Odin and Frigg, Freyr and Freyja)
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| Monday 13th to Tuesday 14th |
Anthesterion Nourmenia, Greek Festival honouring all of the Gods and Goddesses
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| Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th |
Lupercalia - pre-Roman festival to avert evil spirits and purify, releasing health and fertility. Also dedication to the Roman God and Goddess, Faunus and Fauna
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| Tuesday 14th |
St. Valentine's Day
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| Wednesday 15th |
Sigfrid's Day (Odinist)
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| Thursday 16th to Friday 17th |
Festival of Aphrodite and Eros (Greek)
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| Friday 17th |
Celtic Tree Month of Rowan ends
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| Saturday 18th |
Celtic Tree Month of Ash begins
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| Saturday 18th to Sunday 19th |
Feast of Goddess Artemis (Greek)
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| Sunday 19th |
Birthday of Minerva, the Roman name of Greek goddess Athena. the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music.
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| Monday 20th |
Dark Moon
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| Tuesday 21st |
Burnham on Sea Moot, from 7:30 at the Dunstan Inn
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| Wednesday 22nd |
Caristia, Festival of family renewal and settling of quarrels(Roman)
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| Thursday 23rd |
Terminalia - Roman festival of the God Terminus, protector of boundaries
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| Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th |
Anthesteria; Festival honouring Dionysus as
Plouton, God of the Dead (Greek)
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