February

From FB:

“The name of February comes from the Roman goddess Februa, mother of Mars, and patroness of the passion of love. Her rites are celebrated on February 14, which is still observed as St. Valentine’s Day. In Roman times, young men would draw billets naming their female partners.

The Anglo-Saxon name for this month was Solmonath (“sun month”) noting the gradual return of light after the darkness of midwinter. In the American backwoods tradition, the full moon in February is called the Snow Moon.

Symbolically, it is a time of renewal, cleansing, and rebirth, as represented by the virgin goddess Bridhe (or Bride, or Bridget). In Asatru, she is Birgit, spring-loving consort of Ullr, god of Winter, who transforms from her winter aspect of the aged hag, veiled in black, into the radiant virgin bride – springing from apparent death to life like the changing seasons.”