Yuèliàng
Known world-round sa pamamagitan ng 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 pag-ibig affair is as ancient as antiquity beyond count.
A BLUE MOON is when two full moons occur in a single month. Thus, the segundo 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, kahel Moons, kulay-rosas 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 ● lobo 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 ● isda Moon
APRIL: Peony Moon ● Growing Moon ● Awakening Moon ● Seed Moon ● Planter's Moon
MAY: Dragon Moon ● Bright Moon ● damo Moon ● liyebre Moon ● gatas 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 ● mais Moon
● Dog Day's Moon
SEPTEMBER: Chrysanthemum Moon ● pag-awit Moon ● Harvest Moon ● Barley Moon
● Harvest Moon
OCTOBER: Kindly Moon ● Harvest Moon ● Blood Moon ● Blood Moon ● Hunter's Moon
NOVEMBER: White Moon ● Dark Moon ● puno Moon ● Snow Moon ● beaver Moon
DECEMBER: Bitter Moon ● Cold Moon ● Long Night Moon ● Oak Moon ● pasko Moon
