{"id":86,"date":"2014-05-19T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T07:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-05-19T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T07:55:54","slug":"may-alternative-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/may-alternative-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-May Alternative Holidays, Brigid, Isis, Ragnar, Pentecost, Sacred Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Movable Holiday:<\/strong> \u00a0Sometimes in May, sometimes in June: \u00a050 Days after Easter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/school\/way\/calendar\/pentecost.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Pentecost &amp; Shavuot: Annual Sacred Marriage Holiday<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Movable Holiday:<\/b> \u00a02nd Sunday in May. \u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 13<\/strong> &#8211; Roman Garland Day, Offering garlands to Neptune.<br \/>\n&#8211; Month of Hawthorn, Celtic festival of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Our Lady of Fatima Day (Portugal)<\/p>\n<p><b>May 14-16<\/b> Feast of Divine Love and Compassion &#8211; Source of healing and beneficence, honoring Goddess as Isis (Old Egyptian), Oshun (Yoruba\/Santeria), Lakshmi (Hindu).<\/p>\n<p><b>May 14<\/b> &#8211; Isis Day in ancient Egypt<\/p>\n<p><b>May 15<\/b> &#8211; Cold Sophie (German)<br \/>\n&#8211; Festival of Vesta (Roman)<br \/>\n&#8211; Maia and Mercury&#8217;s Day (Roman)<\/p>\n<p><b>May 17<\/b> &#8211; Dea Dia (Roman)<\/p>\n<p><b>May 18<\/b> \u00a0&#8211; Celtic Feast of Old Greek God Pan &#8211; Who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives. Men recognized the transitions in their lives and honored male fertility.<\/p>\n<p><b>May 19<\/b> &#8211; Old Celtic Feast of Brigid &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>May 20<\/b> &#8211; Mjollnir (Germanic, Teutonic, heathen)<\/p>\n<p><b>May 21<\/b> &#8211; Dark\/Bright Mother Goddesses Day &#8211; Kali \/ Parvati and Hecate \/ Demeter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Plato&#8217;s Birthday<\/p>\n<p><b>May 22<\/b> &#8211; Ragnar Lodbrok&#8217;s day (Norse Heathen)<\/p>\n<p><b>May 23<\/b> \u00a0 &#8211; Semik (Russian)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/images\/HermesTrisHelmet.jpg\" alt=\"Hermes Trismegistus famed founder of Hermetic philosophy and writer of the Emerald Tablet as above so below\" align=\"Right\" \/><b>May 24<\/b> &#8211; Day of the Three Maries (significant to Mary Magdalene and Grail Christianity)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Feast Day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/saints.html#hermestri\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Hermes Trismegistus<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Celtic Festival to the Three Mothers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Greek Celebration of the Horae<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movable Holiday: \u00a0Sometimes in May, sometimes in June: \u00a050 Days after Easter: Pentecost &amp; Shavuot: Annual Sacred Marriage Holiday Movable Holiday: \u00a02nd Sunday in May. \u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day &#8211; 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/may-alternative-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-May Alternative Holidays, Brigid, Isis, Ragnar, Pentecost, Sacred Marriage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[8],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-sacred-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}