May 31, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/31: Christian feast of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven.
* 5/31 eve: Vigil for lost spouses/partners; night of mourning and healing.
May 30, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
May 29, 2023 – Memorial Day
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/29: Memorial Day–Day to honor all soldiers who fought honorably and died in war, to mourn all of war’s victims, and to contemplate all the horrors of war.
* 5/29: Death day of Baha’i Prophet Baha’u’llah (1892). Baha’u’llah believed Deity to be male, female, and beyond gender.
May 28, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/28 (OC 6/4): Pentecost/Whitsunday–Christian feast celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the male and female disciples of Lord Jesus; honors Her as the Paraclete, Grace, Wisdom, Justice, and Providence.
* 5/28: Day to mourn the forced relocation of eastern Native Americans from their traditional tribal lands to the western prairies. 4,000 Cherokees died on the “Trail of Tears” in 1838-1839.
May 27, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/25 eve to 5/27 eve: Shavuot/Feast of First Fruits–Jewish festival of thanksgiving for the first fruits of the grain harvest. Originally, loaves of bread were offered to Elohim.
* 5/27: Birthday of Rachel Carson (1907), biologist who began the environmental movement.
May 26, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/25 eve to 5/27 eve: Shavuot/Feast of First Fruits–Jewish festival of thanksgiving for the first fruits of the grain harvest. Originally, loaves of bread were offered to Elohim.
May 25, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/25: Day Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s commitment to ecumenism (1995).
* 5/25 eve to 5/27 eve: Shavuot/Feast of First Fruits–Jewish festival of thanksgiving for the first fruits of the grain harvest. Originally, loaves of bread were offered to Elohim.
May 24, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/23 eve to 5/24 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros–Day to honor love and passion.
* 5/24: Christian feast of St. Joanna, one of the female disciples of Jesus who discovered His empty tomb on the first Easter morning.
May 23, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/23: Birthday of Margaret Fuller (1810), Transcendentalist and feminist who argued that women, as well as men, have immortal souls.
* 5/23 eve to 5/24 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros–Day to honor love and passion.
May 22, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/19 to 5/22: Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony–in thanksgiving for the strawberry harvest. Iroquois consider themselves kin to all of Nature.
* 5/22: Biological Diversity Day–Day to recognize that the survival of humanity is dependent on the survival of the many diverse species on the Earth.
* 5/22: Vigil for peace, justice, and respect for the human rights of all in Yemen, in the throes of civil war.
May 21, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/19 to 5/22: Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony–in thanksgiving for the strawberry harvest. Iroquois consider themselves kin to all of Nature.
* 5/21: Beginning of Gemini (the Twins/Lovers/Partners).
* 5/21: Cultural Diversity Day–Day to celebrate cultural differences.
* 5/21: Death day of Jane Addams (1935), social worker, feminist, and peace advocate.
May 20, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/19 to 5/22: Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony–in thanksgiving for the strawberry harvest. Iroquois consider themselves kin to all of Nature.
* 5/20: Day the Supreme Court concluded that, under the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religious belief is absolute, but the freedom to act on that belief is subject to nondiscriminatory laws intended to promote public safety and health (1940).
* 5/20: Day the Supreme Court recognized that discrimination against lesbians and gays violates the U.S. Constitution (1996).
May 19, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/19 (11:53 a.m. EDT): New Moon.
* 5/19: Old Celtic/Irish feast 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.
* 5/19: Endangered Species Day–Day to advocate for preservation of endangered species and their habitats.
* 5/19: Day the first woman was ordained a rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism (1974).
* 5/19 to 5/22: Iroquois Strawberry Ceremony–in thanksgiving for the strawberry harvest. Iroquois consider themselves kin to all of Nature.
May 18, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/18: Feast of Old Greek God Pan, who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives.
* 5/18 (OC 5/25): Ascension Day–Christian feast marking Lord Jesus’ ascension into Heaven.
May 17, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/15 to 5/17: Rogation Days–Christian days of prayer for bountiful crops, sustainable development, and healing of environmental abuses.
* 5/17: Baha’i feast honoring the one Deity as ‘Azamat – Grandeur. Baha’is believe in the oneness of all religions.
* 5/17: Day the Supreme Court concluded that ethnic-based segregation of schools violates the U.S. Constitution (1954).
May 16, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/15 to 5/17: Rogation Days–Christian days of prayer for bountiful crops, sustainable development, and healing of environmental abuses.
* 5/16: Day to mourn Chairman Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” in China (1966).
May 15, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/15: Yoruba/Santeria feast of Ochossi, Orisha of Animals. Yorubas/Santeros celebrate with drumming, ecstatic dancing, and possession trance.
* 5/15: Family Day.
* 5/15 to 5/17: Rogation Days–Christian days of prayer for bountiful crops, sustainable development, and healing of environmental abuses.
May 14, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/14: Mothers’ Day–Day to give love and thanks to all mothers; day for all mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of their children.
* 5/14: Dakinis’ Day–Day Tantric Buddhists make offerings to the Dakinis and Mother Tantra; day to unite will and power to manifest positive social change and environmental healing.
* 5/14 (Obs. 4/26): Israel’s Independence Day (1948). Israel’s founding document promises ethnic, religious, and gender equality.
May 13, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/13: Spring Migratory Bird Day.
* 5/13: Day the Humanist Manifesto was published (1933). It exhorts people to affirm life, not deny it; engage life, not flee from it; and work towards the happiness of self and all.
* 5/13 eve: Vigil for lost mothers; night of mourning and healing.
May 12, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/12: Day the first woman was ordained a rabbi in Conservative Judaism (1985).
May 11, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
May 10, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/10: Death day of Theodore Parker (1860), Unitarian slavery abolitionist and social justice activist.
May 9, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/9: Day the world’s nations committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing climate change (1992); day to mourn the failure to reduce these emissions.
May 8, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
* 5/8: Christian feast of St. Julian of Norwich (d. 1419), mystic who believed Deity to be Father and Mother, everywhere in everything.
May 7, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/7 to 5/13: Week honoring our professional federal, state, and local government employees, who make our constitutional democracy work – free of corruption, partisanship, nepotism, and discrimination.
May 6, 2023
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
* 5/6: Shepherd’s Day–Day to meditate on Deity as Lord of Animals.
* 5/6: Mindfulness Day–Zen Buddhist day for being mindful that everything you do, or fail to do, affects all sentient beings.
May 5, 2023
* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis–Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
* 5/5 (1:34 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Flower/Corn-Planting Moon) (Taurus Full Moon).
* 5/5: Cinco de Mayo–Day celebrating Mexico’s victory over occupying French forces; day to mourn Hispanic victims of exploitation (past and present), make peace, and celebrate empowerment of Hispanic Americans.
May 4, 2023
* 4/30 to 5/4: Zoroastrian celebration of Divine Spirit Khshathra Vairya, creator and protector of the Sky. Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda.
* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis–Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance–welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
* 5/4: National Day of Prayer–Day to pray for freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and government throughout the world.
* 5/4: Birthday of Horace Mann (1796), advocate for universal nonsectarian education.
May 3, 2023
* 4/26 to 5/3: Mayan Rain Festival–honoring Rain God Chac and His attendant Chacmool, and welcoming the fructifying rains.
* 4/28 to 5/3: Floralia–Old Roman festival devoted to Flora, Goddess of Flowers.
* 4/30 to 5/4: Zoroastrian celebration of Divine Spirit Khshathra Vairya, creator and protector of the Sky. Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda.
* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis–Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance–welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
* 5/3: Taue Matsuri–Shinto rice-planting festival.
* 5/3: World Press Freedom Day–Day to recognize the importance of a free, independent, pluralistic media world-wide, as a fundamental human right and essential to democracy.
May 2, 2023
* 4/21 to 5/2: Ridvan–Baha’i celebration of Baha’u’llah’s declaration identifying himself as the New Prophet. Ridvan Truce.
* 4/26 to 5/3: Mayan Rain Festival–honoring Rain God Chac and His attendant Chacmool, and welcoming the fructifying rains.
* 4/28 to 5/3: Floralia–Old Roman festival devoted to Flora, Goddess of Flowers.
* 4/30 to 5/4: Zoroastrian celebration of Divine Spirit Khshathra Vairya, creator and protector of the Sky. Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda.
* 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Beltaine–Old Celtic/Welsh feast of Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (the Oak King – God of the waxing Sun).
* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis–Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance–welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
* 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers.
May 1, 2023
* 4/21 to 5/2: Ridvan–Baha’i celebration of Baha’u’llah’s declaration identifying himself as the New Prophet. Ridvan Truce.
* 4/26 to 5/3: Mayan Rain Festival–honoring Rain God Chac and His attendant Chacmool, and welcoming the fructifying rains.
* 4/28 to 5/3: Floralia–Old Roman festival devoted to Flora, Goddess of Flowers.
* 4/30 to 5/4: Zoroastrian celebration of Divine Spirit Khshathra Vairya, creator and protector of the Sky. Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda.
* 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Beltaine–Old Celtic/Welsh feast of Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (the Oak King – God of the waxing Sun).
* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis–Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole.
* 5/1: Christian feast celebrating the sacred marriage of Blessed Mary and St. Joseph.
* 5/1: Law Day–Day to celebrate rule of law and freedom from authoritarian rule. Where there is rule of law, the military, the police, civilian government officials, and the people are all subject to the law, and enforcement of the law is uniform.
* 5/1: Birthday of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Catholic mystic and evolutionary who experienced the union of consciousness with all Nature.
* 5/1: Day Pope John Paul II affirmed that capitalism must be tempered by social justice and restrained by human rights and environmental laws (1991).
* 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance–welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary – Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
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