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After extensive research in the transcribed vocal histories of Native American tribes, the Sami of northern Scandinavia I have uncovered the traditional names of all the various full moons
Haggis Moon - Traditional old gaelic terrm for 1st full moon when Higgis emerge from their burrows in the melting snow in search of a mate.
CockWomble Moon from ancient Pictish - the Full Moon in early April was the time that Picts send the young apprentices to the nearest Roman Camp to ask for a tin of Tartan Woad
Moon Moon references the Full Moon at the end of term when Druidic teachers would take their charges out of the classroom environment into the Forest, and in their excitment the pupils would expose their buttocks to passing hunters.
Monkeyfelcher Moon - Full Moon during 6Nations is marked by the ghastly nasal whine of "JJJOOOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEEE" by Ian Roberston deep in the primeval forest whilst John Inverdale masterbates furiously at the sky like a piston fisted gibbon on a nearby hill.
I reckon we could get Haggis Moon in the press next month with a bit of effort.
Probably sounded funnier in your head...
Wrong again. You’re not doing very well on this thread really!
Blood moon refers to a total lunar eclipse where the Earth comes between the sun and the moon. The only light reflected from the moon is light that has been refracted by Earth’s atmosphere. This light appears reddish for the same reason that a sunset or sunrise does: the Rayleigh scattering of light in the blue end of the spectrum.
It’s been called blood moon for centuries but blood is not a month like Wolf, Harvest etc, it just refers to any total lunar eclipse where that phenomenon can be seen. Of course the tabloids love it, it sounds dramatic and prophetic.
Substantial point still stands - its a neologism/media construct entirely around a very recent astronomical event.
a very recent astronomical event.
Erm...
Put the shovel down gwaelod. There are references to blood moons in the bible and other myths surrounding the term from nearly every culture. Hardly a recent term coined by the media. All you’re doing is being woefully ignorant of terms you don’t know. It’s okay not to know stuff.
As the OP I know it as a 'wolf moon'.
I seem to remember all the moons being named in a diary.
Can I just applaud the term ‘piston-fisted gibbon’ 😂
I’ll bet gwaelod hasn’t heard of the terms blue moon or hunter’s moon either, however both have been around forever, as the link I posted earlier shows; there’s a house on the outskirts of Chippenham called Hunter’s Moon, blue moon has been used as a song title...
As the link I posted points out, the moon was incredibly important to societies all over the world for reference through the seasons and the years, and giving each moon its own distinctive name helps with reference to previous years and seasons, especially as many societies had no written language, everything was contained in stories passed down by shame nor others tasked with carrying on the history of each society.
As a number of people have pointed out, just because one hasn’t personally heard about something that’s been around for centuries, if not millennia, does not mean that it hasn’t been around.
The names are pagan/Wiccan and go back centuries
That may explain why I hadn't heard of it either.
Anyway:
Full moon affects on human behaviour clearly evident on here, some of you have lost the ****ing plot.🤪😵🐺
Effects not affects.
I seem to remember all the moons being named in a diary.
Yup I can recall seeing them in a diary as a kid but I probably couldn’t list them when asked.
Yup I can recall seeing them in a diary as a kid but I probably couldn’t list them when asked.
Here's an extra one for the list. I name this moon, Wendy.
I prefer Harvey.
Weinstein? 😳
A Weinstein Moon?
Haggis Moon... 😂
piston fisted baboon..... 😂 😂 😂
Have heard of some of the moon names, but memory only jolted by this thread. Wolf Moon is new to me.
The full moon names people often refer to originated among Native Americans living in what is now the the northern and eastern USA.
https://www.countryliving.com/life/g4569/full-moon-names-meaning/
Supermoons, micromoons, blood moons are also mentioned.
Lots of Wolf moon images on twitter - https://twitter.com/hashtag/wolfmoon
Better to acknowledge the possibility of one's own ignorance on a topic than assume that it's an internet-millenial-snowflake trend simply because you've not come across it until recently.
There's a name for every month,with a couple to spare, all on Wikipedia, which was written by Victorian clergymen (and maybe some Georgian ladies in breeches). Definitely pre-dates turn of the century slideshows in the Lakes.
Lots of Wolf moon images on twitter
Must be ancient then, if it's on Twitter!
Someone exceptionally uses "affects" correctly as a verb and promptly gets (in)corrected. 🙂
People around here relate the weather to the phases of the moon. We were lamenting the lack of snow last week and someone (aged about 80) piped up in all sincerity with "new moon next week, it'll snow".
The blue moon is when there are 13 full moons in the year, it's the extra full moon which is rare.
La lune du loup means the same as wolf moon and cropped up in the media here because of the bright moon. With snow on the ground a clear sky and a lune blonde (bright moon) anyone we met at night commented using one of the expressions raised so far. People who live up a remote mountain valley with very little light pollution have more interest in the moon and stars than townies who just see a blob of light through the atmospheric and light pollution.
I've never heard of the term "wolf moon" until today either.
It's therefore definitely yet another sad example of the Moon's pathetic attempts to rebrand itself rather than accept its inevitable slide into irrelevance.
I mean, you're more than 4.5 billion years old. Just gracefully accept it, for pity's sake!
I'd never heard of the Full Beaver Moon until today. Sounds like fun.
Someone exceptionally uses “affects” correctly as a verb and promptly gets (in)corrected. 🙂
It made me laugh. Until I realised it probably wasn't a joke 🙁
(gwaelod is right btw. Some of these moon names have some provenance - harvest, blood, blue - but they're not definitive. And some don't - yeah for sure the algonquins or whoever called a feb full moon a snow moon. And wolves only howl in jan. And I believe everything I read on some semi-literate website. Whatever, not being algonquin myself, I'm not going to say w"wolf moon". That would be cultural appropriation. So there.
I also agree that the moon should step back from its public role. )
Amateur astronomer here. I know the Moon names and I don't read tabloid newspapers, sorry.
In support of gwaelod's ridiculous rant:
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I, like him, feel that there has been way more coverage of the moon in the past couple of years. Aside from a few amateur astronomers and the odd polymath (STW appears to have a few...), I don't believe these terms were 'common knowledge' until recently. Maybe I've been ignorant. Or maybe folk on STW like to pretend about how much they know.
So, to conclude, we're not allowed to call it the Wolf Moon anymore? Just the Moon When It Appears Big and Reddish in January? Cos Wolf Moon is too new a name for it.
Correct Dez. That or big moon are the only acceptable terms.
I'm still laughing at Piston Fisted Gibbon.
I'm also in the I've never heard of it before camp ..but hey-ho..gotta move with the times and apparently it's been around for a while ..
https://www.projectfey.com/blogs/magical-musings/hunter-moon-history-origin-dates-and-calendar
Full Moon again this weekend - as you'll all be aware, February is of course, Snow Moon.
It's also a supermoon so you could call it Super Snow Moon.
😉
‘Super Snow Moon’ ticks a lot of boxes for me.
Let’s hope it’s clear for some weekend riding.
Let’s hope it’s clear for some weekend riding.
Just avoid Ciara ... I think she might make your riding slightly unpleasant.
It was top on the tops last night (Marsden Moors at top-o-the-Peak District). Cold, clear, crisp and very still. The moon doing its thing and Venus at full blast but alas no ISS.