 Hello people, I'm Ginny Matherall, I'm your local fourth-generation witch of Irish descent, I'll have you know no less. Today we're back with my ever-popular Almanac series looking at all the witchcraft that you can do on what days, when and why during the month of March. So what I first like to do with these videos is to give you a general overview of all the witchcraft trends that happen throughout the months of March and then we'll look at the nitty gritty day-to-day detail of what witchcraft you can do and why. Therefore we're going to start with our general overview. March is one of those funny months, isn't it? It is actually spring because you can see the flowers growing, you can see the buds coming and the blossom blossoming but it's bloody cold, it's windy, it's quite dramatic weather. The old adage of in like a lion out like a lamb applies through March but it was one of the most significant of the months of the agricultural year because this is when we sow our seed. You can imagine the superstitions and traditions that rose from this. Irish Catholics still to this day will sprinkle holy water over their potato crop when they plant them in March. This is very much taken from the pagan practices of wishing the best for your crops for the year and putting that magical intent into them. This time of year is invigorating, isn't it, with the blustery winds and you can feel the green man, that god of the spring, as he stalks across the land pulling forth the energy into the trees that they fall into leaf. The Anglo-Saxons and the Welsh called this month the winter spring and it's known that there's going to be a sharp frost in March so don't count on your crops necessarily surviving. The end of March, the last three days of March are known as a black thorn winter because it could often snow, we're not out of the woods yet but we're very much into spring. So what do you do in the spring? Well the best thing to do is to scrub your house. Great, it's time to clean. I'm not a clean freak although I do like watching other people clean on TikTok. It's quite fun, probably because I never see anyone else clean apart from me. Kittens born in March were considered the best of all cats. I don't know what the best type of cat is, the best mouser maybe. However if you are of a pagan mind what you should really have is a black cockerel that is also hatched in March because this will keep away those pesky evil spirits. I prefer doing warding spells myself but a black cockerel might work. March is filled is it not with a yellowness about it? The Daffy Down Dilly as we used to call the little daffodils these are going to strew themselves across the countryside along with your primroses. Now primroses you should only pick in bunches of 13 by the way to bring them into your house, it's bad luck otherwise. This is also the time before the grass has got too long that you can find the elusive four-leafed clover. The clover plant is now growing with the spring with everything else. Before it's hidden by all the other plants you can sometimes find those elusive charmed four leafers which keep away evil spirits, protect you from bad luck, make you happy and you can wish upon and bring you gold apparently. My mother who was a very strange witch in many ways and brilliant but strange all she ever had to do was to sit on a grass and a patch of grass and you go oh look darling I found a four leaf clover another one yeah you'll have this one she was always giving them to me and she always thought that they were such a good omen for the future so every house that I went into that she immediately then found a four leaf clover and now I consider was blessed by my mother. And finally March is the continuation throughout the British countryside of feral football. Feral football is decidedly ambiguous when it comes to rules, the pitch, the goals, how it's played. I love a bit of feral football. We didn't do feral football when I was growing up we did something called fireball hockey. Now I was going to tell you what fireball hockey is but I'm not allowed to say these words on YouTube because I might get banned so I'm not so don't play it or do anything with it but it's great fun and it is played exactly as it sounds so I'll leave it at that. That is my overview for March there is plenty to be looking at you're going to get out of the garden you're going to do some spring cleaning you're going to protect your house from evil spirits by having a rooster or get a new kitten or finding that four leaf clover. There is of course many other more things to march than I can put on in this video so I'll put a playlist up here of my Almanac series and if you'd like to go to previous years march playlist the overview will give you plenty more information so now let's get on to the day-to-day detail and of course we always start with the first of March the first thing that you do before anything else on the first of March is to wake up and say white rabbits this is an old old custom white rabbits were always considered incredibly lucky rabbits in general are lucky we also white rabbits as soon as we wake up it is an old tradition and I believe it's to do with calling in the luck of the rabbit before you say anything else say white rabbits very important the next thing we do on the first of March is to make sure that all our doors and windows are shut because this is the day that the army of fleas is going to invade your house if you keep all your doors and windows shut and don't open them at all not even to go out I think you should just stay in under the covers on the first of March um then you will not suffer from fleas at all this year which now if you live in Strathclyde which is in Scotland you play something called wapity scurry that sounded almost Danish didn't it apologies to the scots I obviously can't do a scotch accent I lived in Scotland for four years and I was quite good then but now I can't anyway wapity scurry is where children go around hitting each other with paper balls on long bits of string and any other adults that they can find making as much noise as possible after it's dark and this is an order to chase away the evil spirits for the spring now it's very well known and actually I completely agree that loud noises chase away evil spirits it is something to do with the vibrational energy that the noise creates and so therefore it is a good idea to go around banging saucepans in your house or if you're like my husband an eldest boy extremely loud metal slash heavy metal around us finally the Welsh out there it is st david's day so it's considered extremely lucky for you to wear a leak in your hat because apparently st david was the person who told the Welsh army to put leaks in their hats in order that they could identify each other in battle happy st david's day to you the Welsh the fifth of march is the start of the mad march hair season so the mad march hair season is not great for us witches because they could be our shape shifting sisters out there witches were known to shift into the shape of hairs and so you see any hairs acting oddly let them be you can't shoot these hairs with normal you know guns and bullets you have to have rowan leaves or rowan branches behind your gun stock when you shoot them or use a silver bullet like a werewolf if you see any hair while setting out on a journey on this morning i'm very sad to say that your journey is not going to be a success and should turn around go home stay there the 10th of march is the night of the new moon astrologers believe that whatever zodiacal sign the moon is in the moon will take on those elements of that sign throughout the month this is the new moon of Pisces on this day and Pisces is a deeply sensitive sign which means this Pisces new moon is all about delving into the dream world dreams are incredibly important to us witches we like to use them to foretell future or to speak with spirits and animals in the past and loves ones dreams are where we release our inner inhibitions and reach for those spiritual aspects pay attention to your dreams on this night of the new moon because they may well have pearls of wisdom especially for you the 10th of march is also known as mothering a sunday in the uk now this is when children go back and visit their mother taking you know nice gifts such as flowers daffodils and mothering sunday cakes and chocolate etc etc it was taken over by the christian faith and called well it said so we're going to take over mothering sunday and and have it as when you visit your mother church absolute rot we always visited our mothers on this day and it is so important to continue with this because as a mother i'm mainly laughed at by my children teased mercilessly and told i know absolutely nothing when in fact i know everything the 15th of march this is known as the ides 15 is ides and the ides of march has always been known as an unlucky day but where the ides of march said shakespeare when he was killing off julia's Caesar that the romans always had it thus and they were taking their you know traditions from the Greeks from the egyptians etc don't start anything new on this day just carry on with your normal day to day life the 17th of march is that great st paddy's day st patrick's day the Irish national holiday now st patrick's day is absolutely symbolised by the colour green and leprechauns the colour green of course is synonymous with the emerald isle with ireland which has incredibly fertile grounds and because it's warmed by the gulf stream doesn't often snow i mean there is the saying it never snows in ireland which is blatantly untrue i can remember several occasions when i've been buried in six foot deep snow falls however st patrick's day is also bound up with the leprechaun now it's said that when the Danes came over to ireland they entrusted their gold to the leprechaun and the leprechauns hid that gold in crocs and they placed the gold at the end of rainbows as well as wherever leprechauns placed their gold now you can get the gold of a leprechaun by catching them and if you've got them do not take your eye off them and they are on a bound to tell you where their gold is st patrick's day it's also known as a day of abundance and the Celts used to believe that every fold would have a calf and every pool hold a salmon which is rather charming isn't it so st patrick's day you should certainly eat drink and be merry and wear green and find your leprechaun and get your croc of gold perfect day st patrick's day the 19th of march is when the sun enters ire's now we all like to know what an ire's personage should be especially from my old almanac of 1642 so i'm going to read you what it says this is the ire's man he born of ire's shall be of good wit and neither rich or poor so that's encouraging isn't it he shall soon be angry but easily pleased so he's strong emotionally i think is the words there he will have power of the goods of dead folk i don't know if that means he's going to be a lawyer or he is just has power over estates he knows at 34 he shall be a fornicator but wedded at 35 whereupon fornication will stop one presumes and if he is not he will then become chaste so he'll be a fornicator up to the age of 34 but after 35 that's it ire's woman let's have a look at them the ire's woman shall be ireful and suffer great wrongs from day to day so you've got a hard life ire's woman she shall lose her husband but recover a better one like that i have lost this one but i found him he's much nicer over there she shall be sick at five years old and in mortal peril at 25 and if she survives this mortal peril she will be in debt oh it's terrible for the female isn't it until 43 but afterwards she will prosper ire's can also be told by their noses so if you've got an ire's person and they have a crooked nose they are unstable a beaky nose they are bold a flat nose they are lecherous and a round nose they are indecisive so that's ire's for you the 19th of march is considered the opposite of the 15th if you are born on this day you are incredibly lucky if you're a boy it's known that you cannot be killed in battle in fact i do think it's true because my long dead father-in-law was born on this day and he used to enter all these competitions and win and the first prizes would be like you know major cars major holidays houses he won everything he was incredibly lucky so the next date in our diary is the 24th of march now this is the angel gabriel's feast day don't get hung up here apart angels being part of christian mythology they are so not the christians merely took them over we have known about angels and talked with angels for far longer than christianity has ever been here now the angel gabriel is very much an angel that we should be looking up towards they are a messenger angel and they are invoked by those people who are looking to them for good news so if you're wanting good news to come today is the day to ask the angel gabriel and wait and hear what they bring the 20th of march is of course the vernal equinox ostara one of the great feasts of the wheel of the year now i'm not going to tell you too much about ostara in this video here because i of course i'm going to do my own video all about it and you will find it on my channel if it's not up already but if you'd like to watch a video on ostara now and i haven't put it up i'll put up last year's here for you and have a look at that the 25th of march is the night of the full moon this full moon is the last of the winter season moons it's known as the worm moon because the earthworms come out of their winter slumber and the crow moon because the crows are obviously looking for earthworms this moon is a great balancing moon and the water that is blessed by this full moon your moon water of march will have a great balance within it i do like a bit of moon water in my spells actually because it gives it that extra layer of energy there is also a penumbral eclipse which you can see in the americas and asia it's considered very um not good luck anyway i don't know if it's bad luck but it's definitely not good luck if you're pregnant to go and look at the moon so don't do that what they say that actually happens if you do that is that your baby is born moon struck i eat slightly bizarre now i personally think that moon struck people are rather lovely so i wouldn't mind if you woke up on the first of march and said white rabbits is the first thing that you said then on the 31st of march the last thing you say as you lay your head on your pillow is hair hair did you do it now this is going to set your luck in stone for all those things that you have accomplished in march and they will forever grow with luck and greatness this is very much to do with hair's whole balance of light and darkness they're considered shape shifting animals they can change their form it's all to do with the vernal equinox you know that period of balance and so that is why if you say hair hair the last thing before you go to sleep on the 31st of march your luck will be set let me know in the comments which one of these that you particularly like and are particularly going to do people ask me you know do i follow this almanac myself and absolutely i do i'm not great with a full moon ritual every month because i'm not great at night anymore because i'm too old but during the daytime i can certainly do you know whatever i do otherwise come into my 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