The week from Mayday to Cinco de Mayo has traditionally been a seasonal hooray hooray week. It goes back at least to the days of the Pagans and a feast called Beltane. Beltane is the height of the spring, says Selena Fox, high priestess and Executive Director of Circle Sanctuary. It is a time of celebration, as nature all around us is flowering and turning green again. It may surprise you to know that these are the days of the pagans.
Paganism is an ancient religion, and the root of many Celtic, Greek and Roman traditions.
Beltane is the Pagan celebration of fertility and rebirth of the land. Paganism did not go out when Christianity came in. Every year at the beginning of May, Pagans attend a large Beltane festivals at Circle Sanctuary, a Pagan place of worship and nature reserve located in Mount Horeb , Wisconsin. We have kept alive some very old traditions, the dancing around the maypole, the leaping of the bonfire, the kindling of the bonfires, explains Fox. As we dance the maypole, we also see those elements within ourselves, the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine within each of us being together in harmony.