 Hello people, it's me Ginny Metherall and I am a fourth generation witch. Today we're looking at my ever popular Almanac series studying all the right rituals and traditions that you should do with your witchcraft in the month of March. It is a joy to be doing March because that means that spring is springing. Technically it's not March because I'm actually doing this video obviously in February which means that it's still a bit cold and chilly and February-like and rainy and wet but March is round the corner and the celebration of spring is beginning. So as with all these videos what I like to do is general overview of the month of March and the right rituals and traditions that you can do throughout the month and then we'll look at the nitty gritty day rituals that you should be cracking on with through this month of spring. So with that said let's get straight on to the overview. The name March comes from the god of mass, that Roman full-blooded god of war and the lesser known agriculture. This is to do with the fact that it is the start of the agricultural season with the plowing and the seeding and the sowing and the whatever the farmers are getting up to at the moment but this also has reference to the fact that the military campaigns that were paused over the winter because it was a bit cold and everyone liked to go home to their families. All the soldiers then trotted back to the battlefield and started their wars again. But there are a lot of spring goddesses around in this season and it is filled with holy days for almost every religion. For example the Hindus have their festival of spring holy starting on the 6th of March the Muslims celebrate Ramadan, their season of fasting. The Jewish religion starts Purim, we're in the Christian Lent and of course not forgetting the Wiccan marvellous Ostara, which is the festival of the equinox happening on the 20th of March. March of course is announced by the arrival of the Daffodil. A lot of the March spring flowers are this beautiful cheerful yellow like the Daffodil, the Primrose, the Celendine and these are all celebrated within this month and there is folklore attached to these plants. The Daffodil used to be called the Daffy Down Dilly which I think is a much sweeter name. Traditionally it was stated that you shouldn't bring the Daffodils inside of your home to bloom and flower and smells so glorious until the first hen's eggs were hatched. Now I have slightly jumped the gun and that's because I really like Daffodils, they're really cheerful and they really do give me pleasure. So I slightly forget about these old-fashioned traditions about when and where you shouldn't or should bring flowers into your house. However I do like the Primrose one. When you first pick your bunch of Primroses you should take 13 of them because this will encourage the fairies to bring you luck when they see 13 Primroses. Primroses are known as a fairy flower. If you hold your Primrose up and gaze over its flower petals you should be able to see any fairies in the vicinity through the heady haze of the Primrose aura. So you can look out for it. There's plenty of tales especially in Cornwall and the West Country in the UK saying how Primroses led children astray whilst picking them and therefore were led into the fairy realm. Hence why they're called key flowers in Germany because they're considered the entrances to the fairy realm. Fairies really are quite taken up by Primroses so plant them by your back door and this will ensure that you have fairy blessings and now is the time they've got beautiful Primroses in the shops at the moment. Go out, get some, put them in pots by your back door for your fairy blessings this month. And finally Primroses make a delicious wine which combined with the wonderful dandelion and that beautiful yellow that it comes up makes a wine that means that you can see the fair. March is also the time when if you're out in the early morning as I often am you'll see hares boxing each other in the fields which is the Jill hares, the female hares saying back off wall child to the other enthusiastic male hares. However hares are the familiar of pretty much every spring goddess such as Bridget and if you haven't seen my Bridget video I'll put it up here for you, have a look and tell you all about it. The goddess Eastera who is the goddess that we base our Ostara possibly Easter on and our other Anglo-Saxon spring goddess of Heretha. These goddesses all have familiars of hares or can change into hares and in fact witches are known to change into the shape of shifting hair. The hair is also the subject of the wild hunt. This is where old Nick the the king of the demons shall we say is on his horse of the night or night mare with his slavering hands in the spring he will go off and chase hares on the night hunt. If he catches the hair it means that spring will not come because generally he's trying to catch the goddess of the spring and imprison her so she cannot bring forth the fertility and abundancy that we need. All hares that you see take great care of do not touch them they are sacred to somebody. March is known for extremely changeable weather. One day it can be light and bright and sunny and calm and you really think that summer's on the way and the next day it can snow. This also comes in with the equinoctal gales to the tides around the equinox which this year is on the 20th of March are at their extreme they are the highest and lowest tides great for surfers out there. I'm not going to talk about the festival Ostara in this video particularly because I'm going to do a whole video on that next week so look out for it and it will tell you all the traditions and rituals that you can follow to celebrate Ostara. So that's my overview for March make sure you don't bring in your daffodils before the hen's eggs have hatched oops and make sure you've got lots of primaries around your house to encourage the fey. So now we've done that let's get into the nitty gritty of the days and of course the best place to start is on the 1st of March. This is officially the meteorological if I can say that right beginning of spring but we witches have been celebrating spring since immoc which is on the 1st of February. Now the reason we celebrate it then is because spring is happening it's very clear that the snow drops are forcing their way through the ground the frogs were spawning and spring was springing so we're a bit more in tune with the earth by celebrating it then. The other thing that you must not do on the 1st of March is open your windows and doors for any other reason apart from to go out. Don't do any airing of your house or leaving your door open to let in the sunshine none of that keep them shut. This is the day traditionally where old Nick throws bags of fleas into your home. If you've got any pets make sure you de-flea them today because otherwise you will find infestations of the black army coming your way. I don't like a flea they don't bite any of my other family they only bite me because I've got very sweet tasting luxurious blood and they love it. The 7th of March is the night of the full moon and this full moon is in Virgo. Astrologers believe that full moons have an energy to them and the Virgoan energy is that of security and order so if you have trouble with your relationships at the moment this is the perfect time to sort them out otherwise great things to do on this moon is make moon water and any spells that require the moon water for security love relationships and order some Virgoans are very ordered people I wish I was a bit more like them to be fair than this is the moment to make the moon water for those spells. This full moon has plenty of names the chased moon I think this is in reference to the Christian Lent moon the crow moon because the crows start really getting together and making a noise at the time and of course the worm moon because the earthworms are abundant sometimes it's called the plow moon there's lots of names for it depending on where you live choose the one that you like the best. The 10th of March is a weather divination day this means that if there is a hawthrost a sharp frost on the 10th it is borrowed this frost from February and we're going to have a very lovely summer and a plentiful harvest so and with this in mind the next date to come up is the 12th of March which apparently is the day that you should sow your onion sets so all the gardeners out there go and sow your unders on the 12th of March this is to do with the god of onion sowing who was some Celtic person who liked onions I can't remember the details because I haven't written them down if you know your onions you'll sow your onions today. The 17th of March I'm sure we don't need any reminding is St Patrick's day St Patrick of course is the patron saint of Ireland for all of you lot with Irish blood out there today is the day to celebrate your ancestry now St Patrick was known for showing the Holy Trinity you know the father son and the Holy Ghost to the people of Ireland by using a shamrock this is a clover plant and clovers are known occasionally to have four leaves and the fourth leaf being lucky. My mother was permanently finding four leaves clovers she couldn't sit down on the grass that goes oh look here's a four leaf clover darling you must have it it's terribly good luck and she'd give it to me and I'd press it and every now and then I open some of my old books and find four leaf clovers falling out of them which gives me great pleasure they remind me of my mum. In previous times these four leaf clovers were actually carried by the Celts to ward off evil spirits therefore they're considered a protection charm so should you find a four leaf clover it's a great day to bring it out on St Patrick's day the 17th and ward off all the evil spirits that are around while celebrating your heritage. Now not many people know this but the 17th of March is apparently also the day that Noah went into his ark and he came out on the 29th of April yeah I thought I'd mention it here because I think it's rather sweet I was always rather charmed as a child by Noah's excesses in his ark especially when I learned that there is a large area in the Middle Eastern in Ararat where which shows evidence of a biblical style flood so probably it was true I love a true story. The 19th of March is the traditional day where you must throw away your warming pan meaning turn off your central heating you don't need it after the 19th of March and if you've got it on woe betide you although I might keep mine on a bit longer I'm quite a cold person so I like a bit of central heating it's not only turn off your central heating day it is also Mothering Sunday there is a lot of rubbish written about Mothering Sunday and it's been claimed by the Christians which is just a load of rubbish it wasn't it was always about people going and paying homage and looking after their old mum and it is one of the days of the year that as a mum you will appreciate because you get flowers from your kids and that's all I ever wanted some flowers they've probably picked from my garden but isn't charming it is a really old festival it was highly prevalent amongst the Celts not so much in the east of England but definitely in the west country which is where I live and even now I still think oh it's Mothering Sunday oh joy oh rapture the 21st of March is the night of the new moon this is a rather special new moon because it is a cusp moon it's on the cusp of Pisces and Aries so it starts in one sign and moves into another sign and it is the first of Aries's two new moons in a month now astrologers and witches alike believe that new moons have their own particular energy and they are great time to consider the growth in the coming month and the energy that it takes on from Pisces is all about your intuition and psychic ability but then as it moves into Aries the energy that it's taking from that is all about courage and strength so if you've got the courage to improve your intuition you will grow strong with your psychic itself I do recommend that you spend three days around the new moon practicing your gifts and asking the moon's blessing to help you see them grow good luck with that let me know how you get on in the comments below I'd love to know the 20th of course is the wonderful Wiccan festival of Ostara this is the spring equinox one of the quarter days as they are called I'm not going to do a huge video about this here because of course next week I'm going to put one up for you and you'll love it how if you can't wait that long you could look at my previous Ostara videos there's plenty of information in there which of course is still relevant today and I won't be repeating it so I'll put it up here for you have a look at that I promise you it's worth it I will say it is a time of balance and so if you have anything that you feel is out of kilter in your life today is the day where you will have the greatest success in bringing it back into balance the last three days of March are also considered borrowed days as I said before and the weather on these days have been borrowed either from February or from April if the weather on these days is borrowed from February it means we're going to have a great summer i.e. if it's really cold our summer will be warm and loving if they're borrowed from April it means that the days are going to be warm and tender and barmy and therefore we're going to have a cool and cold rainy wet summer so watch out for those do leave me a comment below about any traditions that you have for March there is quite a lot of birthdays in March so if you have a birthday why don't you I might even say happy birthday to you don't forget to go to patreon.com for my coven meeting for March I don't know what we're doing yet because I haven't written it but the last two have been so successful I might just carry on my elemental series but I can't decide so look out for it on patreon.com forward slash a Ginny Metherill if you enjoyed this video it would be great if you could hit that like button as the trendy youtubers say I'm not trendy youtuber but I would very much appreciate if you did otherwise I will see you in just a few days