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World Religious Calendar 321
Ash Moon
Day 26
The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during
antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by
Neo-Pagans, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here)
starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on
Samhain.
Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree
(second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month
listed below).
Polarity: Feminine
Planet: Neptune
Archetype: Lir (Celtic God of the Sea)
Symbol: trident
Folk Names:
Moon of Waters
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Lenting
Roman information
Id. Mart.
the Ides of March
Month: Martius
The Ides was originally the Full Moon on the early Roman lunar calendar. The Latin word idus
means “half division” of a month and comes from an older Etruscan word meaning “divide”. The Ides
occurred on the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and on the 13th day of all other months.
The Romans considered the ides to be a particularly auspicious (good) day, dedicated to Jupiter, the
Roman King deity.
Because of William Shakespeaare’s famous play “Julius Caesar” and the famous line "Beware the
Ides of March" (Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BCE), many people
incorrectly think that the Ides is bad. The Romans viewed the Ides as good. The famous warning was
given by the astrologer Spurinna before the day and again on the day of the assassination. Julius Caesar
was assassinated in front of the Pompey theatre at the foot of Pompey’s statue, where the Roman Senate
was meeting in the Temple of Venus.
The Roman month of Martius is named for Mars. March was sacred to Mars, Roman God of war.
The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar
aligned to the vernal equinox was introduced by Romulus, the founder of Rome, around 753 BCE. In
Romulus’ calendar, Mars (the first month) had 31 days. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven
traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, Mars had
31 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title),
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