Names of the Full Moons

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January--Wolf Moon (also known as) Old Moon

February--Snow Moon,Hunger Moon

March--Worm Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sugar Moon, Sap Moon

April--Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon

May--Flower Moon, Corn Planting Moon, Milk Moon

June--Strawberry Moon, Rose Moon, Hot Moon

July--Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon

August--Sturgeon Moon, Red Moon, Green Corn Moon

September--Harvest Moon, Corn Moon, Barley Moon

October--Hunter's Moon, Travel Moon, Dying Grass Moon

November--Beaver Moon, Frost Moon

December--Cold Moon, Long Nights Moon

These are the traditional names given to each month's Full Moon by Native Americans Native Americans (also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Red Indians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term comprises a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.

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[Geisel]

Then there is blue moon(the second full moon in any given month) and the dark moon (the second new moon of a given month).

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Full Moon Names

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January: Full "Wolf" Moon (American Indian -- from wolf packs roaming in the dead of winter.) Also "After-Yule" or Full "Old" Moon.
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February: Full "Snow" or "Storm" Moon (American Indian -- from blizzards at this time of year). Also known as Full "Hunger" Moon.
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March: Full "Worm" (American Indian -- from earthworms coming to soil surface during Spring thaw), or "Chaste" Moon. Other names: Full "Crow" Moon, Full "Crust" Moon, Full "Sugar" Moon, Full "Sap" Moon.
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April: Full "Pink" or "Seed" Moon (American Indian--from profusion of pink wildflowers). Also "Grass" Moon, "Spring" or "Full Egg" Moon, Full "Fish" Moon.
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May: Full "Flower" or "Hare" Moon. Also Full "Corn Planting" Moon, Full "Milk" Moon.
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June: Full "Strawberry" or "Dyad" Moon. Other names: Full Rose Moon, Full Hot Moon.
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July: Full "Buck" or "Mead" Moon. Also, Thunder (American Indian-from fierce storms common at this time), and Full Hay Moon.
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August: Full " Green Corn" Moon, Full "Sturgeon" Moon, Full "Grain" Moon , Full "Red" Moon (American Indian--from the heat and haze of August).
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September: Full "Harvest" Moon*. Also, Full Corn Moon, Full Barley Moon.
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October: Full "Hunters" or "Blood" Moon (defined as the first full moon following the harvest moon; from hunting practice of riding over the stubble of reaped grain fields pursuing foxes by the light of the moon.); also Full Travel Moon, Full Dying Grass Moon.
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November: Full "Beaver" or "Snow" Moon (from the beavers busy building their winter homes). Also, Full Frost Moon.
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December: Full "Cold" or "Oak" Moon. Also, Full "Before-Yule" Moon and Full "Long Nights" Moon.

* The Harvest Moon is always the full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox. If the Harvest Moon occurs in October, the September full Moon is usually called the Corn Moon.

Source: The Old Farmer's Almanac, Yankee Publishing, Dublin, N.H., 1998. p252. (R 051 Ol1)

Verified by: GM, 7/98

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