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Happy May Day, or, as my dear ol' mum taught me when I was still a wee sprite:

Hooray, hooray, it's the first of May
Outdoor fucking begins today!

Whatever you call it -- May Day, Beltane, Cetsamhain, Walpurgisnacht, Roodmas -- May 1st (or May 5th, if you're in a coven that celebrates Old Beltane instead) is the first celebration of the warm half of the year, and the traditional start of summer according to the old pagan calendar. (Though the solstice now marks the official start of summer on our calendar, it's really midsummer, according to the ol' Druids.)

So, wrap a maypole, pass your livestock between the bonfires, or go have a lusty shag on a nice lawn someplace, and rejoice!