The shortest month of the year certainly isn't short on stuff to celebrate. Groundhog Day (Feb 2) evokes the promise of spring, but lingering cold weather makes a perfect excuse to cuddle on Valentine's Day (Feb 14). Add to this the crazy fun of Carnivale and Mardi Gras, the reverence of Ash Wednesday and the killer sales of President's Day, and you have a pretty cool month. But wait; there's more!
Monthly Observances
February is widely known for being National Black History Month, but it is also the National Month for bird feeding, caring about your indoor air, cherry pie, condoms, children's dental health (a natural consequence of Cherry Pie Month), laugh-friendliness, mending a broken heart, parent leadership, pet dental health, senior independence, time management, and weddings. It's the International Month for boosting self-esteem, so make sure everyone compliments your cherry pies enormously.
In addition, February is also American Heart Month, as well as the month for adopting a rescued rabbit, AMD / low vision awareness, baking for family fun, festival of camellias, from Africa to Virginia, library lovers, Marfan Syndrome awareness, marijuana awareness, planting the seeds of greatness, relationship wellness, returning shopping carts to the supermarket (I don't make this stuff up; I just report it), sweet potatoes, wise health care consumers, worldwide renaissance of the heart, youth leadership (same month as parent leadership??), and spunky old broads, so watch some Golden Girls reruns, then have some fun baking with your family!
Weirdest Holiday: Inconvenience Yourself Day, the 25th. We need a holiday for this? Honorable Mention for Bad Timing: Dump Your Significant Jerk Day, on the 7th, is not likely to get too many adherents, placed as it is one week before Valentine's Day. At least see what the jerk got you, first! :)
February Traditions
Flower: violet - fidelity, humility
Birthstone: amethyst - humility, sincerity Aquarius's gem: sapphire - chastity, hope
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (1-18) and Pisces (19-29; see March for details). Despite being represented as the Water Bearer, Aquarius is actually an air sign, indicating spontaneity and changeability. Aquarians are known geniuses and almost pathologically honest, but they sure can be weird about stuff, like relationships. Try to be less cerebral and more trusting, Water Bearers! Best friends: Libra and Gemini. Best love matches: Sagittarius, Leo and Aries.
Famous Birthdays: Clark Gable (1st), Ayn Rand (2nd), Nathan Lane (3rd), Betty Friedan (4th), Hank Aaron (5th), Babe Ruth (6th), Charles Dickens (7th), James Dean (8th), Tom Hiddleston (9th), Roberta Flack (10th), Burt Reynolds (11th), Abraham Lincoln (12th), Grant Wood (13th), Frederick Douglass (14th), Galileo (15th), Ice T (16th), Michael Jordan (17th), John Travolta (18th), Copernicus (19th), Sydney Poitier (20th), Erma Bombeck (21st), George Washington (22nd), Dakota Fanning (23rd), Winslow Homer (24th), George Harrison (25th), Johnny Cash (26th), Ralph Nader (27th), Jason Aldean (28th), Dinah Shore (29th).
Catholic Feast Days
1- Feast of Ste Brigid, St Severus of Avranches
2 - Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, Candlemas, St Adalbald of Ostrevant, St Cornelius the Centurion, Ste Joande Lestronac
3- Feast of St Anskar, St Blaise, Our Lady of Supya
4 - Feast of St Andrew Corsini, St John de Brito, Ste Joan of France
5 - Feast of Ste Agatha, St Bertulf, St Jacob
6 - Feast of St Amand, Ste Dorothy, Sts Paul Miki and Peter Baptist, St Mel
7 - Feast of St Moses, St James Sales, St Luke the Wonder Worker, St Romuald, St Thomas Sherwood
8 - Feast of St Cuthman, St Jerome Emiliani, St Meingold
9- Feast of Ste Apollonia, St Sisebutus
10- Feast of Ste Scholastica, St Clare of Rimini
11-Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, St Caedmon, Ste Theodora
12-Feast of St Julian the Hospitaler, Ste Marina
13-Feast of St Agabus, Ste Eustocium of Padua, St Modomnoc, Ste Catherine dei Ricci, St Martinian
14-Feast of Sts Cyril & Methodius, St Valentine
15-Feast of St Euseus, St Sigfrid, Ste Georgette, St Severus of Valeria
16-Feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham, Ste Juliana, Ste Viridiana
17-Feast of St Forkernus of Trim, St Evermond, St Fintan of Cloneenagh, Ste Marianne, St Silvinus
18-Feast of St Theotonius, Ste Agatha Lin & St Andrew Nam-Thung, Ste Constance
19-Feast of St Conrad of Piacenza, St Boniface of Lausanne, St Mesrop the Teacher
20-Feast of St Amata of Assisi, St Colgan, St Eleutherius of Catania, St Shadhost, St Wulfric of Haselbury
21-Feast of St Peter Damian, St Noel Pinot
22-Feast of Ste Margaret of Cortona, St Elvis
23-Feast of Ste Mildburga, St Polycarp, St Willigis
24-Feast of St Prix, Ste Adela
25-Feast of Ste Walburga, St Avertanus, St Romeo
26-Feast of Ste Photina, St Porphyry
27-Feast of St Gabriel Possenti, St Galmier, Ste Anne Line
28-Feast of Ste Honorina, St Romanus
29-Feast of St Oswald of Worcester
Birthday not in February? Check out these other months!
January - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/01/your-january-birthday-january-holidays.html
March - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-march-birthday-march-holidays.html
April - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-april-birthday-april-holidays.html
May - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-may-birthday-may-holidays.html
June - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-june-birthday-holidays-traditions.html
July - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/07/your-july-birthday-july-holidays.html
August - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-august-birthday-august-holidays.html
September - https://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-september-birthday-september.html
October - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-october-birthday-october-holidays.html
November - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/10/your-november-birthday-november.html
December - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/12/your-december-birthday-december.html
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