* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis--Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1: Birthday of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Catholic mystic and evolutionary who experienced the union of consciousness with all Nature.
* 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance--welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary - Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/3 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros--Day to honor love and passion.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
* 5/3: Taue Matsuri--Shinto rice-planting festival.
* 5/3: Mindfulness Day--Zen Buddhist day for being mindful that everything you do, or fail to do, affects all sentient beings.
* 5/8: Christian feast of St. Julian of Norwich (d. 1419), mystic who believed Deity to be Father and Mother, everywhere in everything.
* 5/10: Spring Migratory Bird Day.
* 5/10 eve: Vigil for lost mothers; night of mourning and healing.
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Mother and Child by Nguyen Thanh Binh[/caption]
* 5/11: Mothers’ Day--Day to give love and thanks to all mothers; day for all mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of their children.
* 5/14 (3:16 p.m. EDT):
Full Moon (Flower/Corn-Planting Moon).
* 5/18: Feast of Old Greek God Pan, who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives.
* 5/19: Old Celtic/Irish feast in which sacred healing wells and springs were adorned with flowers in honor of Goddess Brigid, daughter of Mother Goddess Danu and Father God Dagda.
* 5/21: Beginning of Gemini (the Twins/Lovers/Partners).
* 5/22: Biological Diversity Day--Day to recognize that the survival of humanity is dependent on the survival of the many diverse species on the Earth.
* 5/24: Dakinis’ Day--Day Tantric Buddhists make offerings to the Dakinis and Mother Tantra; day to unite will and power to manifest positive social change and environmental healing.
* 5/26: Memorial Day--Day to honor all soldiers who fought honorably and died in war, to mourn all of war’s victims, and to contemplate all the horrors of war.
* 5/27: Birthday of Rachel Carson (1907), biologist who began the environmental movement.
* 5/28 (2:40 p.m. EDT): New Moon.
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Image: Emily Balivet[/caption]
* 5/28 eve: Old European feast of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons), marking the transformation of the Virgin into the Mother.
* 5/28 to 5/31: Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony--in thanksgiving for the strawberry harvest. Iroquois consider themselves kin to all of Nature.
* 5/29 (OC 5/29): Ascension Day--Christian feast marking Lord Jesus’ ascension into Heaven.
* 5/31: Christian feast of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven.
* 5/31 eve to 6/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Athena - as protector and defender.
Excerpted fromTHE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2014A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality© 2013 Marija Miovskiwww.WheeloftheYear.com
