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The moon calendar

The moons of February 2029

New moon in Aquarius. Full moon in Virgo. Exact times below, in Central and UTC.

  1. Thursday, February 1

    Imbolc

    Midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The first stirring, well before there is anything to show for it.

    Source: Traditional cross-quarter reckoning; Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (1996), ch. 12

  2. Sunday, February 11

    Anthesteriadate approximate

    The new wine opened, and the dead briefly among the living. A festival that holds sweetness and mortality in the same three days.

    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

  3. Tuesday, February 13
    4:32 am Central
    Feb 13, 10:32 UTC

    New moon in Aquarius

    The dark of the moon. A beginning that nobody can see yet.

    Moon in Aquarius: the group and the plan. The unusual angle, the friends.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

  4. Thursday, February 15

    Lupercalia

    A festival of purification and fertility at winter's end — the old year cleaned out before the new one is asked for anything.

    Source: Ovid, Fasti II.267–452, trans. Frazer (Loeb, 1931)

  5. Wednesday, February 28
    11:10 am Central
    Feb 28, 17:10 UTC

    Full moon in Virgo

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Virgo: sorting and fixing. 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

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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 colours 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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