February Events

But I have trusted in thy mercy;

my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

Psalm 13:5

Celestial Signs - Genesis 1:14, Psalm 19

Jan 31 – Super Blue Blood Moon – A rare occurrence!

http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2018/02/super-blue-blood-moon.html

Feb 1 - Moon at Leo / Regulus - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-regulus-from-dusk-till-dawn

Feb 2 – Moon at Virgo’s head

Feb 7 – Jupiter & Moon (at scale) in Libra
Feb 15 – Partial Eclipse
On Feb. 15, the moon will partially block the sun over Antarctica and part of South America.
https://www.space.com/39557-next-blood-moon-eclipses-2018-2019.html
Feb 15-17 – Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury @ Aquarius
Feb 15 – New Moon
Feb 16 – Lunar / Chinese New Year ( year of the dog)

February - What's in the Sky

http://www.beckstromobservatory.com/whats-up-in-tonights-sky-2/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/

http://earthsky.org/tonight/

https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky.html

https://stardate.org/nightsky

https://watchers.news/category/night-sky/

Mazzaroth - The Gospel in the Stars

http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2016/07/mazzaroth-gospel-in-stars.html

www.stellarium.org  *  https://theskylive.com/

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:

and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,

and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26

Historical events by Hebrew date:

Torah tots: http://www.torahtots.com/timecapsule/thismonth.htm

http://freedomhouseac.com/?p=1142

The 11th month (Shevat) began after the sighting of the new moon on Jan. 18.

http://torahcalendar.com

Timeline –www.informedchristians.com:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lMw4yuCqaBb052QWx5TDVEbVE/view

February Events

Be alert and always keep on praying ... Ephesians 6 

Black History Month

American Heart Month

Jan 31/Feb 2 – Congressional Retreat @ Greenbrier, WV / Train wreck

Shevat 15 - Tu B'Shvat New Year for Trees

Jan 31/Feb 1 - https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm 

(calendar does rely on new moon sighting)

Feb. 1/2 - http://torahcalendar.com/Calendar.asp?YM=Y2017M11

(month begins after sighting of new moon) 

Feb 1/2 - Shevat 15 - Tu B'Shvat New Year for Trees

Moon at Leo / Regulus - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-regulus-from-dusk-till-dawn

Feb 1 & 2 - Candlemas and Imbolg, a.k.a. Groundhog's Day (cross-quarter day/halfway between two seasons)

Feb 1 – National Freedom Day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Freedom_Day

Feb 1 - Window to the Heart - Times Square Valentine Heart Design will be on view at the center of the Crossroads of the World. ... unveiled on February 1 at 11am at Father Duffy Square, between 46th and 47th Streets.

Feb 1 - 28 - Save the Presidents - Midnight Moment @ Times Square  -  http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/midnight-moment/save-the-presidents/index.aspx

Feb 2 – Vatican Religious Leaders Conf. – ends

Feb 2 – Rome – World Fair of Sacred Art – begins

Feb 2 - National Wear Red Day - American Heart Association and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Feb 2 – Moon at Virgo’s head

Feb 3 – Feast day of Simeon and the prophetess Anna

Feb 3, 1959 - HISTORY - Plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson— “the Day the Music Died.”

Feb 4 – Super Bowl LII – Eagles vs. Patriots - Minneapolis (Pink, Timberlake)

Feb 4 - World Cancer Day

Feb 5, 62 AD  – Historic Pompeii earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

Feb 5-7 – Raise Your Voice – Times Up – The Maker’s Conf.

Feb 5 (week of) - US troops arrive for drill simulating massive missile attack on Israel

The biennial Juniper Cobra military exercise, which is being held for the ninth time

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-troops-arrive-for-drill-simulating-massive-missile-attack-on-israel/

Feb 6 - Space X launch of Falcon Heavy rocket / Tesla car in space

Feb 7-8 – Mena Summit – Abu Dhabi - https://twitter.com/MilkenInstitute - Geo. W. Bush speaker

Feb 7-17 - Sharjah Light Festival

Feb 7 – Jupiter & Moon (at scale) in Libra

Feb 9     – Winter Olympics in South Korea - Torch lighting ceremony
Feb 9-25 – Winter Olympics in South Korea - https://www.olympic.org/

Feb 9 –  HRM QE arrives at Gibraltar

  - http://chronicle.gi/2018/02/hms-queen-elizabeth-set-for-maiden-call-to-gibraltar/
 - https://navaltoday.com/2018/02/09/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-in-gibraltar-on-first-overseas-visit/

Feb 11-13 - World Gov Summit - Dubai - "Happiness" Smiley Face
 - https://twitter.com/WorldGovSummit -  aim to shape the future of governments
 - https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/
 - Digital Archaeology - IDA begins setup of its AI installation (last year Palmyra Arch displayed) -
  - https://twitter.com/DigiArchaeo
Feb 12 – Lincoln’s Birthday

Feb 12 - Abbas, Putin to discuss new peace talks @ Sochi

https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-putin-to-discuss-new-peace-talks-mechanism-sidelining-us-report/

Feb 13 – Shrove Tuesday / Carnival
Feb 13 - Maha Shivaratri - Hindu festival

Feb 13 – Family Day (Canada)
February 14, 1859 - Oregon becomes 33rd state
February 14, 1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state

Feb 14 – Ash Wednesday

Feb 13/14 – Lupercalia / Valentine’s Day

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day

Feb 14 – Int'l. Condom Day

Feb 15 – National Flag Day (Canada Day)  - 150th Anniversary

Feb 15 – Partial Eclipse

Feb 15, the moon will partially block the sun over Antarctica and part of South America.

https://www.space.com/39557-next-blood-moon-eclipses-2018-2019.html  

Feb 15-17 – Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury @ Aquarius

Feb 15 – New Moon

Feb 16 – Lunar / Chinese New Year (Year of the Dog)
Feb 16 - movie release "Black Panther"

Feb 16 - movie release "Samson"

Feb 17 – 12^th Month (Hebrew calendar) begins at new moon sighting in Jerusalem

Feb 19 – President’s Day (holiday)

Feb 19 – 21  - Interference AV At the Crossroads @ Times Square

 -  http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/at-the-crossroads/interference-av/index.aspx

Feb 22 – George Washington’s Birthday

Feb 22 – Natl. Margarita Day

Feb 23 - Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace - http://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-02/pope-angelus-appeal-prayer-fasting-peace-drc-south-sudan.html

Feb 23 – Russian Defender of the Fatherland Day
Feb 23 - movie 'Every Day'
Feb 24 - Rome Colosseum to be lit up red / Syrian churches
https://www.romereports.com/en/2018/02/13/colosseum-to-be-lit-up-red-to-remember-drama-of-persecuted-christians/
Feb 25 - Olympic Closing Ceremony - https://www.olympic.org/closing-ceremonies

XXIII OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES - PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA 2018

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19N7EWf3ddqX2tBqeNhQ45Vf6PLfZMELw/view

PDF Olympic review

Feb 28, 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI (historic Papacy ended)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

Wednesday, Feb. 28, and Thursday, March 1 - Billy Graham's Casket Will 'Lie In Honor' At The Capitol

March 1 - Sunday law begins in Poland
Historic March 1: Remembering Poland’s ‘Accursed Soliders’ – the Partisans Who Fought Against Communism
http://inside-poland.com/t/remembering-the-accursed-soliders/

March 1 – Fast of Esther

March 2 - Purim

FEBRUARY – U.N. Observances

4 February

World Cancer Day

6 February

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation  (A/RES/67/146)

11 February

International Day of Women and Girls in Science (A/RES/70/212)

13 February

World Radio Day  (UNESCO 36 C/Resolution 63; A/RES/67/124)

20 February

World Day of Social Justice   (A/RES/62/10)

21 February

International Mother Language Day  (A/RES/56/262)  

Other international meetings:  http://www.iisd.ca/upcoming/  &  http://en.unesco.org

http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/index.html

Ongoing –

TBA - Arch of Triumph of Palmyra, Syria returns to Palmyra ??

Part 1 - http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2017/02/triumphal-arch-of-palmyra-syria.html  

Part 2 - http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2017/12/triumphal-arch-of-palmyra-syria-part-2.html

Tu B'Shvat New Year for Trees

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up,

and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves

that summer is now nigh at hand.

 . . .

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted

worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,

and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 21:28-36

Shevat 15 - Tu B'Shevat - New Year for Trees

Significance: The "new year" for calculating the age of trees

Length: 1 day

Customs: eating fruit or the Seven Species; planting trees (or paying for planting them)

When you come to the land and you plant any tree, you shall treat its fruit as forbidden; for three years it will be forbidden and not eaten. In the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be sanctified to praise the L-RD. In the fifth year, you may eat its fruit. -Leviticus 19:23-25

"The New Year of the Trees" or Hebrew: ראש השנה לאילנות, Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot

Tu b'Shevat, the fifteenth of Shevat, is considered to be Rosh Hashanah for trees, regarding the requirement of tithing their produce.

Tu Bishvat day marks the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. Tu Bishvat distinguishes between the last year’s fruits and the fruits of a new year. Tu Bishvat or the “birthday” of all fruit trees, is a minor festival. The name is Hebrew for the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat. 

Jan. 10/11, 2020 - https://torahcalendar.com/Calendar.asp?YM=Y2019M11

(month begins after sighting of new moon - in line with agriculture of Israel)
Feb 10, 2020 - https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm

(calendar does not rely on new moon sighting)

29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

Luke 21:28-36

Almond in Hebrew "shaqed" comes from the verb "shaqad" which means to watch or wake.  A lovely word picture for this season. 

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,

waiting at the posts of my doors. -  Proverbs 8:34

shaqed: almond (tree)

Original Word: שָׁקֵד

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Transliteration: shaqed

Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kade')

Short Definition: tree

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/8247.htm

shaqad: to watch, wake

Original Word: שָׁקַד

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: shaqad

Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kad')

Short Definition: watching

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/8245.htm

Jeremiah 1:11

HEB: וָאֹמַ֕ר מַקֵּ֥ל שָׁקֵ֖ד אֲנִ֥י רֹאֶֽה׃

I see a rod of an almond tree.

Beautiful almond blossom in Latrun, Israel

Happy Tu'Bshvat! - Eyal Asaf - Aerial Photography 2018
https://youtu.be/aT4nqt6SI5A 

And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”

 “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied. “You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, 

“for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”

 Jeremiah 1:11-12

Almond in Hebrew "shaqed" comes from the verb "shaqad" which means to watch or wake.  

A lovely word picture for this season.

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,

waiting at the posts of my doors. -  Proverbs 8:34

https://goodthingstothinkaz.wordpress.com/watch

Prodigy of the Almond Tree

The lampstand (menorah): golden, budding and blossoming almond branches. 

Aaron's Rod: a branch that budded, blossomed and ripened almonds.

Jeremiah's vision: a branch of an almond tree.

The Hebrew word for almond tree comes from a root word which means "to be alert, sleepless, to be watchful, to be on the lookout." So simple yet so profound is the parable of this "alert" and "watchful" tree. A branch that budded, blossomed and ripened almonds was chosen to represent the watchmen – Aaron and the House of Levi. Its budding and blossoming almond branches served as the pattern for the light in the holy place: a center branch producing the fruit of light with in-grafted branches also producing the fruit of light. An almond branch was used to communicate the message to Jeremiah that our Heavenly Father is watching over His Word to perform it. The attributes of the almond tree expounded proclaim the story of the Righteous Branch: watchful… first to resurrect… white garments… firstfruits… flesh withering in the heat… stricken… beaten… shaken… crushed but not destroyed… sweet, single, edible seed.

When the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt in the month Abib by a strong hand, they were led by a branch in Moses and Aaron's hand (a branch which later resurrected into a budding and blossoming almond branch), they encamped at a place called "Almonds" (Migdol) and they were brought to a mountain in Midian known as Jabal al Lawz or Mountain of Almonds.

More amazing discoveries about almonds and the Bible: 

http://www.righteousbranch.org/prodigy-of-the-almond-tree.html

Spurgeon | Lessons from the Almond Tree

http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols46-48/chs2678.pdf

Matthew 25:1, 13

At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

14 For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.…

grégoreó: to be awake, to watch

Greek: γρηγορέω

http://biblehub.com/greek/1127.htm

Watching:
https://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2017/04/our-soul-waits-for-lord.html
Scripture and Jesus himself admonished – commanded - us to watch! 
But what exactly are we to watch?
https://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2016/07/be-watchfulfor-what.html
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112203344913699287550/posts/VAh9pWgJGTG
https://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2017/06/wake-up.html


Sources:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/468738/jewish/Tu-BShevat-What-and-How.htm

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108989/jewish/Tu-BShevat-A-Weekday-Rosh-Hashanah.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_BiShvat

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday8.htm   

http://natureisrael.com/plants2002.html

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Calendar/calendar.html
2020 - https://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2020/01/january-2020-events.html

2019 - https://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2019/01/january-2019-events.html

2018 - http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2017/12/january-2018-events.html

https://youtu.be/bqX2lwepMRA

http://jessicafreyphotographyblog.com/orchar-bridal-shoot/

http://www.plowhearth.com/metal-garden-gate-with-tree-of-life-design.htm

More about Trees:
http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2018/01/tree-ets-genesis-111.html

Jeremiah 1:11-12 art / necklace - https://www.buildalliance.xyz/646-2/

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/371195194265252509/

Rose Water Almond Cookies

https://youtu.be/nE_fW_T6pLY

http://breakingmatzo.com/recipes/maronchinos-almond-cookies/

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,

waiting at the posts of my doors.

Maranatha! 

Jeremiah 1:11

HEB: וָאֹמַ֕ר מַקֵּ֥ל שָׁקֵ֖ד אֲנִ֥י רֹאֶֽה׃

I see a rod of an almond tree.

New life in old tree!

Oldest European Tree Found—And It's Having a Growth Spurt

A Heldreich's pine discovered in southern Italy has been thriving in a remote part of a national park for 1,230 years.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/oldest-tree-europe-italy-pine-climate-science

Published MAY 25, 2018

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Maranatha! 

Super Blue Blood Moon

The sun shall be turned into darkness,

and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever

shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered:

for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said,

and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

Joel 2:31-32

Super Blue Blood Moon – A rare occurrence in January 2018!

January had TWO Super Moons – January 1^st and 31^st

(hence the Blue Moon for the second).

There has been a lot published about this historic conjunction, especially with the previous blood moon series and with the January 31^st Super Blue Blood Moon happening just before Tu B'Shvat (15^th of Shivat) - New Year for Trees - Rosh Hashanah.

Although this big event has passed, I wanted to save/archive the information all together in this blog (didn’t have time previously).  I’m still gathering information and hope to add more at a later time.

This occurred over 150 years ago!  In late March 1866, there was a Blue Moon total lunar eclipse for North and South American time zones. But this full moon was not a supermoon.

Another odd coincident to this January 31 date is the death of Guy Fawkes on January 31, 1606 · Westminster, England. His story and gruesome events of his death are documented here:  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guy-Fawkes

Additionally, there will be two eclipses within a two week period

- January 31^st and February 15 

Both of these occur in the 11^th Hebrew month

 - http://torahcalendar.com/Calendar.asp?YM=Y2017M11

Tu B'Shevat Blood Moon

Sources and additional links:

http://watchfortheday.org/super.html

https://hiddeninthecrag.com/2018/02/01/january-31st-2018-super-blue-blood-moon/

https://ministryofparadise.blog/2018/01/

http://abideinthetruelight.blogspot.com/2014/04/blood-moon-tetrad-sign-in-heavens_13.html

Jan 31 - Supermoon (blue moon) also featured a total lunar eclipse

https://qz.com/1168320/how-to-watch-two-supermoons-a-blue-moon-and-a-total-lunar-eclipse-this-january/

http://earthsky.org/tonight/super-blue-moon-eclipse-on-january-31

http://earthsky.org/tonight/blue-moon-on-january-31-2018

More to come…

Maranatha!