~Notable Dates~

  

    

March

   

1

Birthday of the Golden Dawn, 1888

Covenant of the Goddess (COG) is formed, 1975

Preliminary hearings in the Salem Witch Trials, 1692

3 Because of its numerological significance, the third day of the third month is considered a good time for Witches to do spells of self-empowerment.  Invoke the Triple Goddess of the Full/Waxing/Waning Moon.
4

Church of All Worlds (CAW) incorporates in Missouri, becoming the first Wiccan church to do so in the US, 1968

Sacred to Rhiannon, Celtic Mother Goddess.  

5

Birthday of Laurie Cabot, Wiccan author

7

William Butler Yeats is initiated into the Isis-Urania temple of the Golden Dawn, 1890

10

The meeting of Dr John Dee and Edward Kelly is said to have happened on this day in 1582

12

Birthday of Stewart Edward White, psychic researcher, 1873; he later became president of the American Society for Psychical Research in San Francisco

13 A lucky day for Witches - 13 is a particularly witchy number, and March is the third month in the year.  It's a numerologically charged time.
14

Jacques de Molay, head of the Knights Templar in France, retracts his confession of heresy before being burned at the stake, 1314

17

St Patrick's Day

Birthday of Eileen J Garrett, Parapsychology Foundation

18

Birthday of Edgar Cayce, psychic researcher

Sacred to Sheila-na-gig (Pagan fertility Goddess).

19

Elizabethan statute against Witchcraft enacted, 1563

20

Death of Charles Godfrey Leland, author of Aradia, Goddess of Witches, 1903

20-23 Ostara
21

Inauguration of Isis-Urania temple of the Golden Dawn, and initiation of Moina Mathers, 1888

Green Egg founded, 1968

22

Pope Clement persuaded by Phillip IV to suppress the Templar order, 1311

24

Arrest of Florence Newton, one of the few people burned as a Witch in Ireland, 1661

25 Pope Innocent III issues a bull to establish the Inquisition, 1199
26 Birthday of Joseph Campbell, professor of mythology
27 Birthday of Rudolph Steiner, philosopher and father of biodynamic farming movement
28 Scott Cunningham dies of complications caused by AIDS, 1993
31 The Fox sisters "contact" spirits, sparking the spiritualist movement, 1848
   
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