Yuèliàng
Known world-round by different titles throughout the centuries, the moon has always fascinated man -and consequentially been a means to project love, longing, mating, planting, harvest, fishing, spawning, and indicative of change and renewal. Man depends on his moon sister. This practicality and love affair is as ancient as antiquity beyond count.
A BLUE MOON is when two full moons occur in a single month. Thus, the second full moon is the one called a "Blue Moon." Conversely, the third full moon that occurs in a season which has four full moons is another definition described as a “Blue Moon.” (Usually each season has only three full moons.) Besides a “Blue Moon,” there are many colours as seen in our atmosphere: Yellow moons, Orange Moons, Pink Moons, Red Moons… depending on where you live and the season!
There are also many names for the moon from various regions worldwide. I have chosen a handful of assorted localities and eras to share some of these names the moon has been given.
Moon names <below> are in the following sequence:
Chinese ● Celtic ● Neopagan ● Anglo-Saxon Mediæval ● Colonial American
JANUARY: Holiday Moon ● Quiet Moon ● Ice Moon ● Wolf Moon ● Winter Moon
FEBRUARY: Budding Moon ● Moon of Ice ● Snow Moon ● Storm Moon ● Trapper's Moon
MARCH: Sleepy Moon ● Moon of Winds ● Death Moon ● Chaste Moon ● Fish Moon
APRIL: Peony Moon ● Growing Moon ● Awakening Moon ● Seed Moon ● Planter's Moon
MAY: Dragon Moon ● Bright Moon ● Grass Moon ● Hare Moon ● Milk Moon
JUNE: Lotus Moon ● Moon of Horses ● Planting Moon ● Dyan Moon ● Rose Moon
JULY: Hungry Ghost Moon ● Moon of Calming ● Rose Moon ● Mead Moon
● Summer Moon
AUGUST: Harvest Moon ● Dispute Moon ● Lightening Moon ● Corn Moon
● Dog Day's Moon
SEPTEMBER: Chrysanthemum Moon ● Singing Moon ● Harvest Moon ● Barley Moon
● Harvest Moon
OCTOBER: Kindly Moon ● Harvest Moon ● Blood Moon ● Blood Moon ● Hunter's Moon
NOVEMBER: White Moon ● Dark Moon ● Tree Moon ● Snow Moon ● Beaver Moon
DECEMBER: Bitter Moon ● Cold Moon ● Long Night Moon ● Oak Moon ● Christmas Moon
Tell me, moon, you the one who magnificently reign over the fantasies of my inner world, over the deep feelings that seize me, the intuitions that I can not explain, the irrational fears that haunt me ... Tell me, Mother Moon, how can I distinguish the real from the unreal, what I have from what I want, what I can reach from what I never will?.
Tell me, beautiful moon, how to give you my life and stop being afraid of the shadows, of the unpredictabilities of a new day, after waking from a nice dream. Tell me if everybody feels what I feel, if everyone is afraid at every step, if everyone feels alone in the infinite sky ...
Tell me, beautiful moon, how to give you my life and stop being afraid of the shadows, of the unpredictabilities of a new day, after waking from a nice dream. Tell me if everybody feels what I feel, if everyone is afraid at every step, if everyone feels alone in the infinite sky ...
