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May Day Celebrations
May is both a beautiful and intelligent month, being under the two signs of Taurus (Art of Living, flowers) and Gemini (Mercury’s messages). The Taurus keynote is “Let Struggle within duality be undismayed” allowing harmony to emerge from conflicts and chaos. Gemini’s keynote is“let instability do it’s purifying work.”Humanity learns through struggle and instability. They help each of us build a strong interactive personality, the vehicle that interacts with nature and the beauty of form and matter.
May Day (May 1st)is a day of various celebrations and commemorations, from ancient times to the present. It isthe Festival of Flora (Roman Goddess of flowers). Floralia was a five-day Roman celebration. For the Druids, a new fire was lit on Beltane (May Day) signifying the life of the springtime sun. Cattle were driven through the fires for purification. In Catholicism, May is Mary’s month.
On May Day the Virgin Mary, Queen of May is crowned with flowers. At Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood, Mary’s Day (directed by Sister Corita) was celebrated yearly with parades, art, flowers, singing.
In earlier, simpler times, May baskets,containing sweets, breads, fruits and flowers, were given as gifts, left anonymously on doorsteps, hung from doorknobs.
In India, May 1st is International Workers Day. In China it’s Labor Day, a public holiday. In England (and in America) there’s Morris Dancing and festivities around a Maypole (circle dance with ribbons). May Day in earlier times celebrated springtime fertility, early harvests with fetes and community gatherings. In America, May Day is International Workers Day, Loyalty Day, and Law Day.
May Day marks the end of the unfarmable winter months in the Northern Hemisphere. We also know Mayday as an international distress signal, an emergency code word, from the French venez m’aider, meaning ‘Come help me’. The puritans frowned on May Day (celebrations). We end the month with the Festival of Humanity. For more information each day and during May see Risa’s website – www.nightlightnews.org/Daily Studies.
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