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January: Full "Wolf" Moon (American Indian -- from wolf packs roaming in the dead of winter.) Also "After-Yule" or Full "Old" Moon.
February: Full "Snow" or "Storm" Moon (American Indian -- from blizzards at this time of year). Also known as Full "Hunger" Moon.
March: Full "Worm" (American Indian -- from earthworms coming to soil surface during Spring thaw), or "Chaste" Moon. Other names: Full "Crow" Moon, Full "Crust" Moon, Full "Sugar" Moon, Full "Sap" Moon.
April: Full "Pink" or "Seed" Moon (American Indian--from profusion of pink wildflowers). Also "Grass" Moon, "Spring" or "Full Egg" Moon, Full "Fish" Moon.
May: Full "Flower" or "Hare" Moon. Also Full "Corn Planting" Moon, Full "Milk" Moon.
June: Full "Strawberry" or "Dyad" Moon. Other names: Full Rose Moon, Full Hot Moon.
July: Full "Buck" or "Mead" Moon. Also, Thunder (American Indian-from fierce storms common at this time), and Full Hay Moon.
August: Full " Green Corn" Moon, Full "Sturgeon" Moon, Full "Grain" Moon , Full "Red" Moon (American Indian--from the heat and haze of August).
September: Full "Harvest" Moon*. Also, Full Corn Moon, Full Barley Moon.
October: Full "Hunters" or "Blood" Moon (defined as the first full moon following the harvest moon; from hunting practice of riding over the stubble of reaped grain fields pursuing foxes by the light of the moon.); also Full Travel Moon, Full Dying Grass Moon.
November: Full "Beaver" or "Snow" Moon (from the beavers busy building their winter homes). Also, Full Frost Moon.
December: Full "Cold" or "Oak" Moon. Also, Full "Before-Yule" Moon and Full "Long Nights" Moon.
* The Harvest Moon is always the full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox. If the Harvest Moon occurs in October, the September full Moon is usually called the Corn Moon.
Source: The Old Farmer's Almanac, Yankee Publishing, Dublin, N.H., 1998. p252. (R 051 Ol1)
Verified by: GM, 7/98
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