So many cultures celebrate the first day of May - it feels like a very significant day. It's not the equinox, it's not the transition to summer, but it's an important day somehow. Maybe it symbolizes that we're really done with winter now, and ...
I really thought I've replied this, but it looks like I was wrong. In Romania this is a very important day and it has a lot to do with the beginning of the summer. For Catholics, May is the month of Virgin Mary, so if we look at it from this perspective, maybe...
Beltane is one of the fire festivals James, aka the cross-quarter ones. I have heard that anciently, they were almost more important than the equinoxes and solstices. I think it may be because the equinoxes and solstices MID winter and MID summer, are no...