Cool Moon Facts by Whip

Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Full moon names

Full moon names by month

  1. Wolf MoonJanuary
  2. Snow MoonFebruary
  3. Worm MoonMarch
  4. Pink MoonApril
  5. Flower MoonMay
  6. Strawberry MoonJune
  7. Buck MoonJuly
  8. Sturgeon MoonAugust
  9. Harvest Moonusually September's full moon
  10. Hunter's Moonusually October's full moon
  11. Beaver MoonNovember
  12. Cold MoonDecember
  13. Blue Moontwo full moons in a month, or four in a season

Who actually named them

Almost every page about these names gives you that list and a flat attribution to "Native American tradition". The lists disagree with each other, several of the names are plainly colonial English, one of them describes an animal that was not living in the soil it refers to, and the whole scheme was assembled by an almanac in the twentieth century. Each page here says what its name really rests on.

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