Full Cold Moon

• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon – December

 During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.- Farmer's Almanac

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The lycans must be out in force tonight! This glorious full cold moon brings out the wolves! I might just scratch someone myself and drink in the moonlight. Anyone wanna roleplay? 

Full Beaver Moon

• Full Beaver Moon – November 

This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.- Farmer's Almanac

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This is completely different than Amethyst mooning us with her Beaver. 

Enjoy your night under the moon and perhaps deep in someone's beaver or someone deep in yours! 

Full Blood Moon and Blood Moon Rapture

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• Full Hunter’s Moon or Full Harvest Moon – October 

This full Moon is often referred to as the Full Hunter’s Moon, Blood Moon, or Sanguine Moon. Many moons ago, Native Americans named this bright moon for obvious reasons. The leaves are falling from trees, the deer are fattened, and it’s time to begin storing up meat for the long winter ahead. Because the fields were traditionally reaped in late September or early October, hunters could easily see fox and other animals that come out to glean from the fallen grains. Probably because of the threat of winter looming close, the Hunter’s Moon is generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both Western Europe and among many Native American tribes. - Farmer's Almanac

Image Credit: Anne Stokes

As Kumani and I thought of a name for our Bloodlines clan, we wanted something to represent us. (Well she created and I stood there and nodded my head). More than just vampires and lycans, we celebrate the moon in our real lives as well. Kumani is such a genius with words and writing and capturing the ideal phrase to describe something, her choice of the word "rapture" was perfect. Rapture means elated bliss, high emotion, joyous ecstasy or transporting a person from earth to heaven. Blood Moon Rapture. Most defintely, YES. 

Image Credit: Steph Worrall

Let us all be enraptured by the beautiful Blood Moon tonight. Drink in its energy and beauty with a roleplaying bite fest or just dance under the blood moonlight. 

Full Corn Moon or Harvest Moon

Get out your fangs and claws, it's a full moon tonight! This month's full moon is the Full Corn Moon or Harvest  Moon.

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• Full Corn Moon or Full Harvest Moon – September This full moon’s name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon, which is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.- Farmer's Almanac 

We will celebrate with a full moon invocation and an autumn feast complete with Mexican Cornbread. 

Mexican Cornbread

Ingredients

2 (8.5 oz) boxes Jiffy Cornbread mix

1 C milk

1 C shredded cheese

2 tsp. sugar

2 eggs

1 (14 oz.) can cream style corn

4 oz. chopped green chile

Directions

1.       Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9x13 pan.

2.       In a large bowl combine all ingredients until just combined. Spread batter into prepared pan.

3.       Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and cornbread pulls away from sides of pan.

4.       Serve with butter or honey or both! 

Full Moon, Blue Moon!

The glorious blessing of two full moons in one month! Oh the magickal fun we can have! Thank you, Mother Moon for all the energy and comfort you bring me. 

Image Credit: http://sheenalashay.com/2011/03/march-new-moon-ritualistic-play/

If you are on Second Life, enjoy the roleplaying opportunities and bring out your inner lycan or vampire and bask in the moonlight! You might even venture out for a midnight snack! If you would like to enhance your roleplay even more with like minded players, you can join Bloodlines.  Here is my post on how to join both. 

For more than half a century, whenever two full Moons appeared in a single month (which happens on average every 2 1/2 to 3 years), the second has been christened a "Blue Moon." In our lexicon, we describe an unusual event as happening "Once in a Blue Moon." This expression was first noted back in 1821 and refers to occurrences that are uncommon, though not truly rare.- Farmer's Almanac 

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For an interesting explanation of the blue moon, check out this website. 

Full Sturgeon Moon

Image Credit: Sarah Noble

• Full Sturgeon Moon – August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.

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For those who are so inclined, this is one of my favorite invocations for the full moon:

Full Moon Invocation

Mother, Goddess of moon and star,

Bring Your presence from afar,

Manifest on this, Your night,

And bless me in this sacred rite!

Grant the knowledge and clarity

To understand Your words to me,

Lend Your power, send Your light,

Aid me in my work tonight!

With love and wisdom please embrace,

All within this sacred space,

Mother, I now call to You,

Bring Your message clear and true!

***AutumnRose***

References:

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names/

Full Thunder Moon

The Full Buck Moon –July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.

Image Credit: http://divinemessenger.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/july-full-moon/

Full Strawberry Moon

According to  Farmer's Almanac,  tonight's full moon is called the Strawberry Moon. 

Full Strawberry Moon – June

"This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!"

Image Credit: "Dreams of Strawberry Moon" by Michael Rock

found at: http://celticanamcara.blogspot.com/2011/06/fairies-full-moon-flowers-floods.html

"Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names."

This morning I woke up with a very apt song in my head and remembered tonight was the full moon. 

Won't you dance along with me? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo