FEBRUARY - ICE MOON 



The Moon of February is also called Storm Moon, Horning Moon, Hunger Moon, Wild 
Moon, Red and Cleansing Moon, Quickening Moon, Solmonath (Sun Month), and Big 
Winter Moon.
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"Horning" Moon comes from the ancient Frankish and the modern Asatru calendars,
from Horn, or the turn of the year.

American backwoods traditions called the Full Moon in February Snow Moon.

Originally it seems, the months alternated between thirty and thirty-two days. 
According to legend, February had a day looted by the month of August, when the
pattern was altered and the months were shortened.
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Old Sayings & Lore 


A snowy February brings a good Spring, but a mild month means stormy weather:

"When February gives much snow, 
A fine Summer does foreshow."   

A mild, sunny February is a bad omen, portending a stormy Summer:

"Of all the months in the year,  
Curse a fair Februeer."          

Women born in February should make it a point to wear their birthstone, the
Amethyst:

If the February-born shall find     
Sincerity and peace of mind,        
Freedom from passion and from care, 
If she the Amethyst will wear.      
See the Crescent Moon over your right shoulder, and you'll have luck.  But woe 
to see it over your left shoulder, for bad luck will surely follow.

If a boy is born during the waning Moon, the next birth will be a girl.

When anyone speaks of "Mountains of the Moon," they simply mean white mountains.  
Arabs call white horses "Moon-colored."

An example of a Moon mountain is Mt. Sinai, which was originally named for the
Chaldean Moon God Sinn.

If a Dark Moon comes on Yule, a fine harvest year will follow.

If the Moon changes on Sunday, there will be a flood before the month is out.