The moon calendar
The moons of February 2024
New moon in Aquarius. Full moon in Virgo. Exact times below, in Central and UTC.
Times in Central (US), with UTC under each
- Thursday, February 1
Imbolc
The Celtic festival at the start of February, the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, marking the first signs of spring.
Source: Traditional cross-quarter reckoning; Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (1996), ch. 12
- Friday, February 94:59 pmFeb 9, 22:59 UTC
New moon in Aquarius
The dark of the moon, when the month begins.
The Moon in Aquarius turns to the group and the plan, the unusual angle and the friends.
Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).
- Sunday, February 11
Anthesteria (date approximate)
An Athenian festival in early spring, over three days, when the new wine was opened and the dead were thought to visit the living.
Held on 11–13 Anthesterion in the Attic lunisolar calendar, which drifts against ours. Placed in mid-February, where it commonly landed.
Source: Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (1977), ch. 7; Burkert, Greek Religion (1985), pp. 237–242
- Thursday, February 15
Lupercalia
A Roman festival of purification and fertility at the end of winter, when the old year was cleaned out before the new one began.
Source: Ovid, Fasti II.267–452, trans. Frazer (Loeb, 1931)
- Saturday, February 246:31 amFeb 24, 12:31 UTC
Full moon in Virgo
The full moon. What has grown since the new moon can be seen.
The Moon in Virgo sorts and fixes, and the small useful things get done.
Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).
Computed with astronomy-engine, which follows the NASA JPL ephemerides. Times are Central (Daylight or Standard as the date falls) and UTC; a moon is one instant for the whole world, so only the clock changes with the zone.
How to use the month
Start after the new moon. Review at the full.
The week after the new moon is for beginning what you decided on at the dark of the moon. The full moon is when it shows, and the days after it are for looking honestly at how it went. The last week before the next new moon is for finishing and clearing. That is the whole method, and the app runs a planner on it for people who run businesses.
The sign each moon falls in colors it. The lines under each moon above say what that sign is like; the house wheel says which of your own houses it lands in, from your rising sign.
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