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The Festival of Isis (Egypt). Share the day with your child/ren or with your child within.

The Festival of the Midnight Sun is celebrated annually on this date by Pagans in far northern Norway. The festival, which pays homage to the ancient Norse Goddess of the Sun, begins at sunrise and marks the beginning of ten consecutive weeks without the darkness of night.

Argei – The ancient Romans honored Mars Invictus on this day. Human effigies made of rushes and called Argei were thrown into the Tiber River. Although there are many details about the ritual, the meaning itself is obscure, although Plutarch calls it the greatest of purifications. Mars was once an agricultural God and the throwing of a greenery-clad effigy into the river may be a symbolic sacrifice of the reborn spring God. Blackburn, Bonnie and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford Companion to the Year, Oxford University Press 1999

Celtic Tree Calendar: Uath (Hawthorn) – May 13 to June 9 ~ According to The Ogham calendar, May, the month of the female Hawthorn, leads up to the fertile Oak month following on from Mayday, or Beltane. The Hawthorn is a small tree that grows with a dense, many branched and twisted habit. Due to its impenetrable growth, it is mainly used as hedging, and the origin of her present name comes from the Anglo-Saxon ‘haegthorn’, meaning hedge-thorn. Other common names are whitethorn and may. Whitethorn originates from the contrast of her smooth gray bark with the powdery black bark of the Blackthorn;

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