May Day (Protomagia)
1 May 2026 — Happy Protomagia! Hang a wreath on your door and welcome spring!
May Day is a public holiday in Greece, observed as Labour Day, as in many other countries. It recalls workers' struggles for shorter hours and better conditions, and it became an international day in the late 19th century. In Greece it also has a much older, springtime side. Protomagia (Greek for “the first of May”) welcomes nature in bloom. People go out into the countryside, pick wildflowers and weave them into wreaths. These wreaths, usually made of daisies, poppies and other wildflowers, are hung on front doors and often stay there for weeks. In some places they are kept until 24 June, when they are burned in the bonfires on the feast of St John. The date falls roughly halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. The sky and the calendar remind us that the Sun climbs higher each day, and the days grow longer and warmer.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure made of bright dots and fine lines, like a constellation: a large wreath of wildflowers slowly spinning across the night sky like a cheerful little planet, with tiny star-blossoms along its ring
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