Full Moons

[Melooon]

Here are the moons available for you in 2023
There will be a special event on March 7th for the Worm Moon!

Date	Name
January 6	Wolf Moon
February 6	Snow Moon
March 7	Worm Moon
April 6	Pink Moon
May 5	Flower Moon
June 3	Strawberry Moon
July 3	Buck Moon
August 1	Sturgeon Moon
August 30	Blue Moon
September 29	Harvest Moon
October 28	Hunter's Moon
November 27	Beaver Moon
December 26	Cold Moon

[Icey!]

*Aggressively takes out sticky notes and writes down the dates *

Thanks melon!

[Janus]

Mark me curious about this "special event"... Might also note the New Moons, tagging this for later

[wris]

That’s neat. Where do these names come from?

[Melooon]

Where do these names come from?

Iv never heard anyone name moons where I live; but I found that list of names on the NASA website - from what I can see these names seem to be a result of mixed European and Native American folk traditions - https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/2019/02/full-moon-names-explained

[wris]

Iv never heard anyone name moons where I live; but I found that list of names on the NASA website - from what I can see these names seem to be a result of mixed European and Native American folk traditions - https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/2019/02/full-moon-names-explained

Something to go in my calendar! And probably time to play Harvest Moon again. I wonder if my DS still works...

[ivy]

Oh boy!!! Tomorrow!!! 

[xandra]

omg, i love this list! thank you, melon!

tonight is the snow moon, and it just looks much brighter than normal.

[Onio]

How did I live this long without realizing that each full moon had its own name? 

[cinni]

oh snap! the worm moon falls on my partner's birthday   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[ivy]

oh snap! the worm moon falls on my partner's birthday   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A good time to ask yourself...Would you still love them if they were a worm?

[LunarLepidoptera]

I wish I had something like a planetarium calendar that'd have all the celestial bodies in their proper positions based on the current (or dialed in) time and place. You could also have something like a month-long "long exposure" that shows the paths of everything as lines, and put things like important events on the 'timeline' of the moon's path, or whatever object you wanted. You could pin events to specific transits and alignments by just looking at where lines intersect, stick a pin in it, and the date would automatically be calculated based on the position of the pin.

[Janus]

Welp, couple of days till March 7... any updates on that special event? 

I wish I had something like a planetarium calendar that'd have all the celestial bodies in their proper positions based on the current (or dialed in) time and place. You could also have something like a month-long "long exposure" that shows the paths of everything as lines, and put things like important events on the 'timeline' of the moon's path, or whatever object you wanted. You could pin events to specific transits and alignments by just looking at where lines intersect, stick a pin in it, and the date would automatically be calculated based on the position of the pin.

Check out the Planets Today - I'm not sure if it's quite optimal for what you're describing, but it's a handy resource for DIY astronomers as well as more woo-woo inclined astrology nerds like myself. Let me know if this is helpful!!

[HayleyMulch]

Ah thank you for this list Melon! Does anyone like doing anything specialist for full moons?

Whenever I can, I like to try dedicate some time to gratitude and maybe doing a meditation to just let things go.