JANUARY
THE WOLF MOON (2006 �?WOLF MOON)
The word January came from the Roman name for this month. It was named after the god Janus, who was the god with 2 faces. This was the god of the past and future, beginnings and endings. With January considered the first of the year, being named after Janus is almost perfect. This is the perfect time to put aside the old and the bad in your life and start anew with fresh new thoughts and goals.
January Correspondences
NATURE SPIRITS: gnomes and brownies
HERBS: marjoram, holy thistle, nuts and cones
COLORS: white, blue-violet and black
FLOWERS: snowdrop, crocus
SCENTS: musk and mimosa
STONES: garnet, onyx, jet, and chrysoprase
TREES: birch
ANIMALS: fox and coyote
BIRDS: pheasant and the bluejay
DEITIES: Freya, Inanna, Sarasvati, Hera, CH'ang-O, Sinn
FULL MOON ENERGY: energy is sluggish - just below the surface, beginning and conceiving, protection, reversing spells, conserving energy by working on your own personal problems that involve no one else, a time to work on new goals, strength, competition, courage, self-assertion
NEW MOOON ENERGY: ADVENTURE, OPPORTUNITY, NEW PROJECTS, self-improvement, beauty
January is the time to conserve energy by working on personal problems that involve no one else. It is also a time for protection rites and reversing spells. During this month the energy flow is sluggish and below the surface.
January: Ice Moon. The surface of the earth is frozen and barren. Food is scarce, and many of the people are starving. It is the leanest time of the year. Candle colour for this moon is deep purple, symbolic of the harsh, bitter cold of winter.
January - according to Cunningham
To each Lunar month the ancients assigned a name in accordance with the nature of the activity that took place at that time. The Moon of deepest Winter is the Wolf Moon, and its name recalls a time when our ancestors gathered close around the hearth fire as the silence of the falling snow was pierced by the howling of wolves. Driven by hunger, wolves came closer to villages than at any other time of the year, and may have occasionally killed a human being in order to survive. The wolf in northern countries was at one time so feared that it became the image of Fenris, the creature of destruction that supposedly will devour the world at the end of time. The Christian version of the myth would leave it at that, but the myth continues.
Like the wolf in the fairy tale of Little Red Ridinghood, which preserves the full idea of the myth but is used only to frighten children, the wolf is slain; and the grandmother, like the world, is brought forth once more. As the light of the new-born year slowly increases and the Wolf Moon waxes full, it is a good time to look back upon that which has just ended and learn from our experiences. Bid the past farewell and let it go in order to receive the year that has just been born. Learning to let go of that which we would cling to is one of the greatest secrets of magick.
Names this Wolf Moon is also known as:
- Quiet Moon
- Snow Moon
- Cold Moon
- Chaste Moon
- Disting Moon
- Moon of Little Winter
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