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Groundhog Day!

We note the "holidays" of the two solstices and the equinoxes when note the end of one season and the beginning of the next, but the mid-season days are often noted as well. Halfway through the northern hemisphere winter is Groundhog Day on February 2. The earlier pagan holiday of Imbolc was on that day, or on the night preceding it.

Halfway through the Northern Hemisphere spring is the old pagan holiday of Walpurgis Night, on April 30, or Beltane, celebrated on May 1. Many non-pagans celebrate "May Day" on that date.

The middle of the northern hemisphere Summer on August 1 isn't so much observed in modern cultures, but the old celebration of Lammas matches it.

The middle of the northern fall is one of our favorite holidays, Halloween - or to use the pagan name, Samhain. The Christian holidays of All Hallow's Eve followed by All Saints Day match this.

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