Deeply Rooted

January

• 1: Birthday of folkorist Sir James Frazier, 1854
• 13: Last of Austria's witchcraft laws repealed in 1787
• 15: New moon
• 19: Birthday of Dorothy Clutterbuck
• 25: Birthday of poet Robert Burns, 1759
• 27: Up Helly Aa celebration, Shetland Islands, Scotland
• 30: Full moon -- Cold Moon at 01:18 am
• 30: Birthday of Z Budapest, founder of Dianic Wicca
• 30 - Feb. 2: Roman celebration of Februalia

February

• 2: Imbolc
• 2: Lammas or Lughnasadh (Southern Hemisphere)
• 12: Death of Gerald Gardner in 1964
• 12 - 15: PantheaCon (San Jose, CA)
• 13: New moon
• 14: Valentine's Day
• 15: Lupercalia
• 18 - 21: Convocation (Detroit, MI)
• 21: Birthday of author Patricia Telesco
• 28: Full moon -- Quickening Moon at 11:38 am

March

• 1: Matronalia, the Festival of Women
• 6: Birthday of "official witch of Salem" Laurie Cabot in 1933
• 20: Ostara
• 20: Mabon (Southern Hemisphere)
• 26: Birthday of author and folklorist Joseph Campbell
• 28: Death of author Scott Cunningham in 1993
• 29: Full moon Storm Moon at 10:25 pm

April

• 6: National Tartan Day
• 14: New moon
• 16: Birthday of author Margot Adler
• 22: Earth Day
• 23: Wiccan pentacle is officially added to the list of VA-approved emblems for gravestones, 2007
• 28: Full moon -- Wind Moon at 8:19 am
• 30: Walpurgisnacht celebrated by German witches

May

• 1: Beltane
• 1: Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)
• 5: Cinco de Mayo
• 9: Mother's Day
• 13: New moon
• 27: Full moon -- Flower Moon at 7:07 am

June

• 1: England's Witchcraft Act of 1563 goes into effect
• 10: Hanging of Bridget Bishop, first victim in the Salem Witch Trials
• 12: New moon
• 13: Birthday of Gerald Gardner in 1884
• 17: Birthday of Wiccan author Starhawk
• 20: Father's Day
• 21: Litha
• 21: Yule (Southern Hemisphere)
• 22: England's last Witchcraft Law is repealed in 1951
• 26: Full moon -- Strong Sun Moon at 7:30 am
• 27: Birthday of author Scott Cunningham in 1956

July

• 4: Independence Day
• 11: New moon
• 11: Solar eclipse, at 3:33 pm
• 13: Birthday of Dr. John Dee in 1527
• 19: Rebecca Nurse is hanged in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
• 25: Full moon -- Blessing Moon at 9:37 pm
• 31: Birthday of author JK Rowling

August

• 1: Lammas or Lughnasadh
• 1: Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere)
• 1: Birthday of medium Edward Kelley, 1555
• 6 - 8: Dublin Irish Festival (Dublin, OH)
• 9: New moon
• 15: Birthday of Charles Leland, folklorist and author, 1824
• 20: Birthday of author Ann Moura in 1947
• 24: Full Moon -- Corn Moon at 1:05 pm
• 31: Birthday of author Raymond Buckland

September

• 8: New moon
• 10: Birthday of Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
• 14: Birthday of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in 1486
• 17: Television welcomes Bewitched in 1964
• 21: International Day of Peace
• 22: Fall Equinox or Mabon
• 22: Ostara (Southern Hemisphere)
• 23: Full Moon -- Harvest Moon at 5:17 am

October

• 1: Birthday of Isaac Bonewits, founder of Ár nDraíocht Féin
• 7: New moon
• 12: Birthday of occultist Aleister Crowley
• 18: Birthday of Nicholas Culpeper, noted herbalist, in 1616
• 20: Birthday of Selena Fox of Circle Sanctuary
• 22: Full moon -- Blood Moon at 9:37 pm
• 31: Samhain
• 31: Beltane (Southern Hemisphere)
• 31: Covenant of the Goddess formed in 1975

November

• 2: Birthday of Wiccan author Sirona Knight
• 6: New moon
• 11: Veteran's Day
• 21: Full moon -- Mourning Moon at 12:27 pm
• 25: Thanksgiving day (United States)
• 30: Birthday of Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, founder of Church of All Worlds
• 30: Festival of Hecate Trivia

December

• 5: New moon
• 17: Beginning of Saturnalia
• 21: Full moon -- Long Nights Moon at 3:13 am
• 21: Winter Solstice or Yule
• 21: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)
• 25: Christmas Day
• 25: Feast of Frau Halle, Germanic goddess
• 31: Festival of Hogmanay