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