Christmas and the Winter Solstice is the easiest to spot. I have no trouble making that special season merry enough to last the entire month of December until new years and the feast of the Three Kings. As a kid, all I knew of Halloween was that it was a night where I could go around the neighborhood dressed as a fairy, an angel, and a vampire, even a witch. All this hasn't changed. I saved the ritual for All Souls day.
Tradition somehow helps.
When all families visit the resting places of their departed loved ones, the air is filled with the scent of burning incense, the night is lit by candles on tombstones and the silence is broken by chanted prayers, rosaries, novenas and hymns. The Holy Week and Easter precedes Beltane by a about a week and a half. In this country, it is summer. People have left their city homes to visit relations in the provinces, also to reenact the passion of Christ with them. Whenever a question on the fear of punishment for blasphemy was presented to me, I would say time and time again that it is only blasphemy when you use the Lord's name in vain.