Sacred Calendar for the Wheel of the Year
Calendar of Observances Mid April - May
April 15 - Celtic Tree Month of Willow begins
- Feast of Tellus Mater (Roman)
- Festival of Ba'ast, Feast of Bast (Egyptian cat goddess)
April 16 - St. Padarn's Day (Celtic)
- Feast of St. George (Byzantine)
April 15-17 Feast of the Seas - Honoring God-Goddess as Olokun-Yemaya (Yoruba/Santeria) and Okeanos-Tethys (Old Greek).
April 18 - Thargelia (Greek)
-Rava Navami (Hindu)
April 22 Earth Day - Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth
- Festival of Isthar (Babylonian)
- Feast of the Divine Couple (Japanese)
- Feast of Elaphebolia (Greek)
- Odin's Day - Norse festival.
April 23- European Festival of the Green Man, Spirit of Vegetation and Forests
- Sigurd's Day (Germanic)
April 25 - Holy Prophet Mani's Day (he was born on this day in the 3rd century A.D.) Manichaeans were his followers, predecessors of modern gnostics
Spring Festivals - Dedicated to Herne, Pan, Horned God.
-Roman Robligalia - Corn Mothers (Ceres and Demeter) and Harvest.
Arbor Day - Day to honor trees, to plant trees, and to meditate on Deity manifesting as trees, such as Goddesses Helice/Willow (Greek) and Yggdrasill/Ash (Norse). Arbor Days vary throughout the United States but many are held in the Spring.
April 30 - Walpurgisnacht (Germanic)
- Floralia Ends (Roman)
- Beltane Begins at Sundown (Celtic, Wiccan)
- Salus
- St. Sophia's Day
April 30 - May 2 Old Norse Feast.
Beltaine - Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer in ancient times. (Samhain in the Southern Hemisphere)
MAY
Movable Holiday: Sometimes in May, sometimes in June: 50 Days after Easter: Pentecost & Shavuot: Annual Sacred Marriage Holiday
Movable Holiday: 2nd Sunday in May. Mother's Day - Day to give love and thanks to all mothers; day for mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of their children.
April 30 - May 2 - Beltane - Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer in ancient times, celebrating Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (Oak King, God of the Waxing Sun).
- Old Norse Feast - Celebrating Nanna (Goddess of Flowers), true love of Baldur (God of Light).
- Feast of Sacred Marriage - Honoring Goddess-God as Inanna & Dumuzi , Ishtar & Tammuz (Old Sumerian), Isis & Osiris(Egyptian), Oshun & Shango (Yoruba/Santeria).
May 1 - May Day (European holy day)
- Babylonian Celebration of Asherah
May 2 - Elena's Day (Welsh)
- St. Helen's Day (British)
May 4 - Celtic Festival of Cerridwen and Brigit - Corn Goddesses of fertility, healing, and poets.
- St. Monica's Day (Irish)
- Veneration of the Thorn (Irish)
- Festival of Sheila Na Gig (Irish)
May 6 - Shepherd's Day - Day to meditate on Deity as Lord of Animals: Dumuzi (Old Sumerian), Osiris (Egyptian), Pan (Old Greek), Shiva Pasupati (Hindu).
- Eyvind Kelve (Norse)
May 9-12 Lemuria - Roman festival when the spirits of the dead are thought to revisit their homes.
May 9 - Greek Feast of Artemis
May 13 - Roman Garland Day, Offering garlands to Neptune.
- Month of Hawthorn, Celtic festival of the tree.
- Our Lady of Fatima Day (Portugal)
May 14-16 Feast of Divine Love and Compassion - Source of healing and beneficence, honoring Goddess as Isis (Old Egyptian), Oshun (Yoruba/Santeria), Lakshmi (Hindu).
May 14 - Isis Day in ancient Egypt
May 15 - Cold Sophie (German)
- Festival of Vesta (Roman) Hestia (Greek)
- Maia and Mercury's Day (Roman)
May 17 - Dea Dia (Roman)
May 18 - Celtic Feast of Old Greek God Pan - Who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives. Men recognized the transitions in their lives and honored male fertility.
May 19 Old Celtic Feast of Brigid - 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.
May 20 - Mjollnir (Germanic, Teutonic, heathen)
May 21 - Dark/Bright Mother Goddesses Day - Kali / Parvati andHecate / Demeter.
- Plato's Birthday
May 22 - Ragnar Lodbrok's day (Norse Heathen)
May 23 - Semik (Russian)
May 24 - Day of the Three Maries (special to Mary Magdaleneand Grail Christianity)
- Feast Day of Hermes Trismegistus
- Celtic Festival to the Three Mothers
- Greek Celebration of the Horae
May 25 - Celebration of the Tao, Mother of the World (Chinese, Japanese)
May 26 - Festival of Diana begins (ends 31st) (ancient Roman holiday)
- Dakinis' Day - Day Tantric Buddhists make offerings to Mother Tantra; day to unite will and power to manifest positive social change and environmental healing.
May 30 - Frigg's Day, Northern Goddess, spouse of Odin (Teutonic "heathen" European pre-Christian holiday)
- Feast of the Queen of the Underworld Begins (Roman)
- Feast of the Queen of Heaven (European)
May 31 - Feast of the Triple Goddess - Marking the transformation of the Virgin into the Mother.
- Feast of Stella Maris - Venus, (and Asherah) as Star of the Sea. Mother Mary was later given the title Stella Maris
http://www.northernway.org/school/way/calendar/jan.html
April 15 - Celtic Tree Month of Willow begins
- Feast of Tellus Mater (Roman)
- Festival of Ba'ast, Feast of Bast (Egyptian cat goddess)
April 16 - St. Padarn's Day (Celtic)
- Feast of St. George (Byzantine)
April 15-17 Feast of the Seas - Honoring God-Goddess as Olokun-Yemaya (Yoruba/Santeria) and Okeanos-Tethys (Old Greek).
April 18 - Thargelia (Greek)
-Rava Navami (Hindu)
April 22 Earth Day - Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth
- Festival of Isthar (Babylonian)
- Feast of the Divine Couple (Japanese)
- Feast of Elaphebolia (Greek)
- Odin's Day - Norse festival.
April 23- European Festival of the Green Man, Spirit of Vegetation and Forests
- Sigurd's Day (Germanic)
April 25 - Holy Prophet Mani's Day (he was born on this day in the 3rd century A.D.) Manichaeans were his followers, predecessors of modern gnostics
Spring Festivals - Dedicated to Herne, Pan, Horned God.
-Roman Robligalia - Corn Mothers (Ceres and Demeter) and Harvest.
Arbor Day - Day to honor trees, to plant trees, and to meditate on Deity manifesting as trees, such as Goddesses Helice/Willow (Greek) and Yggdrasill/Ash (Norse). Arbor Days vary throughout the United States but many are held in the Spring.
April 30 - Walpurgisnacht (Germanic)
- Floralia Ends (Roman)
- Beltane Begins at Sundown (Celtic, Wiccan)
- Salus
- St. Sophia's Day
April 30 - May 2 Old Norse Feast.
Beltaine - Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer in ancient times. (Samhain in the Southern Hemisphere)
MAY
Movable Holiday: Sometimes in May, sometimes in June: 50 Days after Easter: Pentecost & Shavuot: Annual Sacred Marriage Holiday
Movable Holiday: 2nd Sunday in May. Mother's Day - Day to give love and thanks to all mothers; day for mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of their children.
April 30 - May 2 - Beltane - Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer in ancient times, celebrating Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (Oak King, God of the Waxing Sun).
- Old Norse Feast - Celebrating Nanna (Goddess of Flowers), true love of Baldur (God of Light).
- Feast of Sacred Marriage - Honoring Goddess-God as Inanna & Dumuzi , Ishtar & Tammuz (Old Sumerian), Isis & Osiris(Egyptian), Oshun & Shango (Yoruba/Santeria).
May 1 - May Day (European holy day)
- Babylonian Celebration of Asherah
May 2 - Elena's Day (Welsh)
- St. Helen's Day (British)
May 4 - Celtic Festival of Cerridwen and Brigit - Corn Goddesses of fertility, healing, and poets.
- St. Monica's Day (Irish)
- Veneration of the Thorn (Irish)
- Festival of Sheila Na Gig (Irish)
May 6 - Shepherd's Day - Day to meditate on Deity as Lord of Animals: Dumuzi (Old Sumerian), Osiris (Egyptian), Pan (Old Greek), Shiva Pasupati (Hindu).
- Eyvind Kelve (Norse)
May 9-12 Lemuria - Roman festival when the spirits of the dead are thought to revisit their homes.
May 9 - Greek Feast of Artemis
May 13 - Roman Garland Day, Offering garlands to Neptune.
- Month of Hawthorn, Celtic festival of the tree.
- Our Lady of Fatima Day (Portugal)
May 14-16 Feast of Divine Love and Compassion - Source of healing and beneficence, honoring Goddess as Isis (Old Egyptian), Oshun (Yoruba/Santeria), Lakshmi (Hindu).
May 14 - Isis Day in ancient Egypt
May 15 - Cold Sophie (German)
- Festival of Vesta (Roman) Hestia (Greek)
- Maia and Mercury's Day (Roman)
May 17 - Dea Dia (Roman)
May 18 - Celtic Feast of Old Greek God Pan - Who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives. Men recognized the transitions in their lives and honored male fertility.
May 19 Old Celtic Feast of Brigid - 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.
May 20 - Mjollnir (Germanic, Teutonic, heathen)
May 21 - Dark/Bright Mother Goddesses Day - Kali / Parvati andHecate / Demeter.
- Plato's Birthday
May 22 - Ragnar Lodbrok's day (Norse Heathen)
May 23 - Semik (Russian)
May 24 - Day of the Three Maries (special to Mary Magdaleneand Grail Christianity)
- Feast Day of Hermes Trismegistus
- Celtic Festival to the Three Mothers
- Greek Celebration of the Horae
May 25 - Celebration of the Tao, Mother of the World (Chinese, Japanese)
May 26 - Festival of Diana begins (ends 31st) (ancient Roman holiday)
- Dakinis' Day - Day Tantric Buddhists make offerings to Mother Tantra; day to unite will and power to manifest positive social change and environmental healing.
May 30 - Frigg's Day, Northern Goddess, spouse of Odin (Teutonic "heathen" European pre-Christian holiday)
- Feast of the Queen of the Underworld Begins (Roman)
- Feast of the Queen of Heaven (European)
May 31 - Feast of the Triple Goddess - Marking the transformation of the Virgin into the Mother.
- Feast of Stella Maris - Venus, (and Asherah) as Star of the Sea. Mother Mary was later given the title Stella Maris
http://www.northernway.org/school/way/calendar/jan.html