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\"Earth<\/a>April 22 Earth Day<\/b>\u00a0– Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth
\n– Festival of Isthar (Babylonian)
\n– Feast of the Divine Couple (Japanese)
\n– Feast of Elaphebolia (Greek)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – Odin’s Day – Norse festival.<\/p>\n

April 23<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– European Festival of the Green Man, Spirit of Vegetation and Forests
\n– Sigurd’s Day (Germanic)<\/p>\n

April 25<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0– \u00a0Holy Prophet Mani’s Day (he was born on this day in the 3rd century A.D.) Manichaeans were his followers, predecessors of modern gnostics
\n– Spring Festivals – Dedicated to Herne, Pan, Horned God.<\/p>\n

Roman Robligalia<\/b>\u00a0– Corn Mothers (Ceres and Demeter) and Harvest.<\/p>\n

Arbor Day<\/b>\u00a0– 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).<\/p>\n

April 30<\/b>\u00a0– Walpurgisnacht (Germanic)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – Floralia Ends (Roman)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– Beltane Begins at Sundown (Celtic, Wiccan)<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– Salus<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– St. Sophia’s Day<\/p>\n

April 30 to May 2<\/b>\u00a0 – \u00a0Old Norse Feast marking the end of the dark half of the year, and beginning of the fruitful warm\u00a0half of the year.<\/p>\n

April 30 to May 2<\/b>\u00a0– Beltane – three-day Celtic festival marking the arrival of summer in ancient times, celebrating Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (Oak King, God of the Waxing Sun).<\/p>\n

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April 22 Earth Day\u00a0– 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) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – Odin’s Day – Norse festival. April 23\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– … Continue reading Mother Earth Day, Sophia’s Day, Beltane and more esoteric holidays<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-beltane","tag-earth-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t