Full Moon Names

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Historically the Native Americans who lived in the area that is now the northern and eastern United States kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to the recurring full Moons. Each full Moon name was applied to the entire month in which it occurred. These names, and some variations, were used by the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior.

Names Month Other Names Used

Full Wolf Moon - January - Full Old Moon

Full Snow Moon - February - Full Hunger Moon

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

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

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

Full Strawberry Moon - June -Full Rose Moon, Full Hot Moon

Full Buck Moon - July -Full Thunder Moon, Full Hay Moon

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

Full Harvest Moon* - September - Full Corn Moon, Full Barley Moon

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

Full Beaver Moon -November- Full Frost Moon

Full Cold Moon -December- Full Long Nights Moon

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Don't forget the Blue moon, which doesn't fall in any particular month.

There are in fact two definitions for a blue moon. According to the more recent definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall within the same month (the average span between two moons is 29.5 days). May 2007 had two full moons: the first on May 2, the second on May 31—that second full moon was called the blue moon.

Over the next twenty years there will be a total of 17 blue moons, with an almost equal number of both types of blue moons occurring. No blue moon of any kind will occur in the years 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2017.

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