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Also, note that many of the moon names used today are rough English interpretations from indigenous languages and stem from their names at one point or another in history.Ĭourtesy of Farmers' Almanac Full Moon Names & Their Meanings January: Full Wolf Moon For example, most of the time, the Harvest Moon occurs in September, but sometimes it will fall in October. And because this is the tracking of moons, not months, the two don’t always line up perfectly and can also differ by year. “What we list in the Almanac are the most popular names, but sometimes, you’ll have a second or a third or even a fourth name, depending on which tribe and what observation they were making.”įurther, the different Native American moon names were traditionally used to point to the entire lunar month - starting with either the new or the full moon - rather than the single day of the full moon. “These names come down from Native American tribes, but there’s not only one name,” Geiger notes.
So if June isn’t the peak berry-picking season where you live, that’s why. “A lot of the namings were done by the tribes in the Northeast, so some of the may be a little regional,” Peter Geiger, editor of Farmers’ Almanac, tells Elite Daily. For example, the full Strawberry Moon in June corresponds to the height of the strawberry-picking season, when the berries are ripe and ready for harvest. It was important for hunters and gatherers to keep track of these cycles and patterns so they knew when to plant and harvest crops, and when to hunt for which animals. “They usually named the moons after either seasonal changes that they witnessed or patterns with animals for hunting or for agriculture,” Beverly Francis, astrologer of Elevation 44, tells Elite Daily. Moon names used today are rooted in a mix of indigenous, colonial American, and European origins. They had to do things the OG way: track the moon.
People didn’t have the luxury of looking up the weather forecast or calendar app to nail down the optimal time to harvest berries or hunt deer. The reason full moons have all these different nicknames stems back to the dark ages, before Google. So, why do full moons have names? Elite Daily did some digging to illuminate the subject, below.
There are all kinds of names for the moon popping up throughout the year that seemingly make zero sense (what the heck is a Beaver Moon, anyway?). Maybe you’ve caught the term “ Wolf Moon” somewhere and panicked to find some silver to ward off the werewolves. If you’ve ever heard someone refer to an upcoming “Pink Moon,” you probably got excited, then quickly disappointed by the lack of a literal rose-colored moon in the night sky.
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