A Different Kind of Holy Water

• 2 oz vodka
• 1 oz triple sec
• 1 oz light rum 
• fill with tonic water
• 1 dash grenadine syrup...

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Elemental Holy Water

You can use the power of the elements to create holy water. Here's how:

Take a large, clean, open-top contaner and put it outside on the ground when you know there is going to be a thunder storm. The water you collect will be "blessed" by the four elements.

• Air, the wind
• Fire, the lighting ...

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Roman Catholic Holy Water Recipe

Here is the Roman Catholic way of making Holy Water.

Place a handful of sea salt on sterilized glass. Make the sign of the cross or raised palm of benediction over the salt and recite the exorcism of salt:

God’s creature, salt of the Earth, I cast out the echo of evil by the living God, by the one true God, by the holy God, through whom all things have their being. May you be a purified, living, heavenly salt, a means of health for those who believe, a medicine for body and soul for all who...

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Full Moon Holy Water

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp. of rose water
• 3 tbsp. sea salt or Kosher salt
• 1 small bowl of spring water*
• 1 clean glass container
• 1 new compact mirror
• 1 small storage glass bottle (green or blue)

*Note: You can buy the bottled water as long as you know that it’s really spring water. But it’s best if you get the water from a running stream or other “live” body of water that you know the water is clean....

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Making Holy Water

Holy Water is used to bless people and objects. 

Here is one recipe:

Fill a small bowl or glass with water. Hold your hands over it and say:

"I exorcise thee, oh creature of water,

of all negativity both seen and unseen,

and bless thee in the name of the spirit."

Imagine a small blue-white light filling the water. Take your time. Hold your hand amount of salt and ....

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March Rituals and Magicks

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. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March was the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season..Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March as well.

This page serves as a jumping off point for March holy days, spells, magicks, lore, rituals, superstitions and  more.

General information on the month of March:

• March Magick
• March - Magickal History
• Correspondences for March
• March Moon Names
• Storm Moon (also known as) Crow Moon

Astrology and Birth Signs for January:

(note: some of the dates will overlap with February and April)

• Sign of the Water Lily (Feb 20 to Mar 20)
• Sun in Pisces (Feb 19 to Mar 20)
• Sign of the Honeysuckle (Mar 21 to Apr 19)
• Sun in Aries (Mar 21 to Apr 19)

Celtic and Nordic Tree astrology and signs for January:

(note: some of the dates will overlap with December and February)

• Ash Tree (Feb 18 - Mar 17)
• Weeping Willow (Mar 1 to Mar 10)  
• Lime Tree (Mar 11 to Mar 20)  
• Alder Tree  (Mar 18 to Apr 14)
• Oak Tree (Mar 21)  
• Hazelnut Tree (Mar 22 to Mar 31)

Holidays, Feast Days and Holy Days in March:
(note: dates shown are for the year 2013)

• 1: Matronalia, the Festival of Women 
• 1: New Year's Day in the old Roman calendar.
• 1: Saint David's Day
• 1: Mother March
• 2: Holy Wells Day, the day of Ceadda, the Celtic goddess of healing springs and holy wells.
• 4: The Anestheria - Greek festival of flowers
• 4: Feast of Rhiannon (Welsh)
• 8: Pancake Day
• 8: Birthday of Mother Earth (Chinese)
• 10: Mothering Sunday - 4th Sunday in Lent
• 10: The Daedala
• 11: New Moon
• 11: Hercules' Day (Greek)
• 11: Russian Butter Festival (date varies year to year)
• 12: Marduk's Feast Day
• 13: Purification Feast (Balinese)
• 14: Feriae Marti - Festival of Mars
• 14: The Diasia to ward off poverty - Greece.
• 15  Ides of March (Roman)
• 16: Whale Festival 
• 16 - 17 : Bacchanalia - The festival of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine
• 17: Liberalia, the festival of Liber and Libera, a Roman fertility god and goddess
• 17: St Patrick's Day
• 17: Damballah's Day
• 19: Ides of March
• 19: Festival of Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess of the circle of the year.
• 19: Day of Aganyu (Santeria)
• 19 - 23: The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, wisdom arts and trades.
• 20: Ostara - the  Vernal Equinox
• 20: Festival of Isis
• 20: Mabon (Southern Hemisphere)
• 21: Tea and Tephi Day (Irish)
• 21: Festival of Salii
• 21: Sun enters Aries
• 22: Hilaria
• 23: Summer Finding (Norse)
• 23: The Tubilustrium (also celebrated May 23)
• 26: Plowing Day (Slavic)
• 27: Full moon Crow Moon
• 27: Ascent Of The Christ Of The Gypsies - Holy Wednesday
• 28:  Birthday of Kwan Yin
• 29: The Delphinia, or Artemis Soteira, of Artemis in Greece
• 29: Good Friday
• 29: Expulsion of the Demons of Bad Luck
• 29: Festival of Ishtar 
• 30: The Festival of Salus, the Roman goddess of public safety and welfare.
• 30: Day of Bau (Babylonian)
• 31: Easter Sunday
• 31: Festival of Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon.

Spells, Magicks, and Rituals for March:

• Ash Wednesday Healing Water
• Celebrate Spring With Flowers
• Daffodil Magick
• Hymn to Hera for Matronalia
• Hymn to Mars
• On The Fence Good Luck Spell
• Ritual for Marduk's Day

The Gods, Stories and Lore of March:

• Furze Tree Lore
• Mars - The Marcher

Just for Ostara and Easter:
(Note: Easter often falls in April as well as March and many pagans celebrate Ostara instead of Easter)

• About Ostara
• An Altar to Ostara
• An Easter Monday Bicaben
• An Oestara Ritual
• Another Eggshell Chalk Recipe
• Another Ritual for Ostara
• Chocolate Bunny Ostara Ritual For Children
• Easter vs Ostara
• Egg Charms
• Eggshell Mosaics for Ostara
• Eggshell Votive Candles
• Eostra's Bunny
• Fairy Beds From Ostara Eggs
• Magic Eggs
• Magickal Colors for Ostara Eggs
• Magickal Egg Garden
• Make Eggshell Chalk for Ostara
• Natural Dyes for Ostara Eggs
• Personal Housekeeping for Oestara
• The Pagan Easter

Recipes for food, incense, potpourri, and more:

• Lebkuchen (Honey Cakes)
• Simnel Cake
• Torrijas Recipe for Liberalia and Ostara

For anything newly posted on this subject and not on this list see: March Spells and Rituals

March - Magickal History

This month was sacred to the Roman god Mars, hence the name March. Mars is similar to the Greek Ares, Tiu or Twaz of Central and Northern Europe, Teutates of the Celts, and Tyr of the Norse. The Roman goddess Bellona, goddess of war, had her special day during this month.

March is generally a blustery month weather-wise. The old weather saying "In like a lion, out like a lamb" is an apt description of March weather. For the Romans, it was the beginning of their year. The Spring Equinox, which falls around March 21 or 22, was a sacred and celebrated time in a great many world cultures. In the Southern Hemisphere, this would be equal to the Autumn Equinox, as the seasons are reversed. The Incas celebrated Pacha-puchy, or Earth Ripening, at this time...

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Correspondences for March

• Nature Spirits: Mer-people, Air and Water beings who are connected with spring rains and storms.
• Herbs: High John root, yellow dock, wood betony, Irish moss
• Colors: Pale green, red-violet
• Scents: Honeysuckle, apple blossom
• Stones: Aquamarine, bloodstone
• Trees: Alder, dogwood...

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Mother March

I found this account of Mother March in an old book about Bulgaria, published in 1877. I love the way they used to celebrate the month of March. It occurs to me that it might be fun and informative to watch the weather this month and assign certain days to certain people in my life and see what happens.

The month of March, which falls in the Spring equinox is called by the Bulgarians, Baba Mart, Old Mother March, and is the only female month of the year, the others being considered as masculine. March in Bulgaria is like April in England, inconstant and capricious, alternating between storms and sunshine; and it is here specially dedicated to the fair sex, who during its continuance enjoy complete idleness, doing no work, and asserting a sort of temporary superiority over their husbands, which sometimes even goes to the length of administering a thrashing, without fear of reprisal.

In order not to displease Baba Mart, the women do not even smear the floors of their houses with clay (a work which is usually performed every week), wash, weave, or spin; for if they were to do so...

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Finnish Healing Spell

Color of the day: Scarlet
Incense of the day: Maple

The epic poem, Kalevala, is celebrated by the Finns this day with parades and readings from the poem. The Kalevala recounts a battle of wits between three wizard brothers and the witch goddess, Louhi. It is a treasure trove of ancient shamanistic practices including the following healing spell.

For this ritual...

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