In this article I would like to discuss the naming of moons, and the importance of Blue Moons in doing so. I will also share some of the various names for the full moons or months in a year recorded by different cultures around the world. It is easy in this day and age to get caught up in the media popularization of “super blood wolf moons”, but often these terms such as “wolf moon” are borrowed from specific individual cultures. This is done without any knowledge of where the term came from, or the meaning, associations and beliefs behind the term by most people. So rather than fall victim to accusations of cultural appropriation I thought I would post about the names for moons used by other cultures, and some of the difficulties in naming full moons in a calendar system.
Lunar Calendars and Blue Moons
An observable lunar calendar that follows the waxing and waning of the moon will in general have 12 months per solar year, with an extra intercalary 13th month every two and a half years or so. This is because 12 lunar months is shorter than a solar year, and 13 lunar months is longer. This means that although there are normally 3 full moons per season (12 / 4 = 3) every so often, the first full moon falls right at the beginning of the season, and you get 4 full moons before the next season starts. The third of these four moons is known as a Blue Moon.
There is another definition for Blue Moons that is a result of a misunderstanding in the 1940s. In 1937 Laurence J. Lafleur published an article in the Maine Farmer’s Almanac describing Blue Moons. Then in 1946 amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett published an article in Sky and Telescope magazine citing Laurence J. Lafleur’s previous article, however he misunderstood the original article and added:
“Seven times in 19 years there were — and still are — 13 full moons in a year. This gives 11 months with one full moon each and one with two. This second in a month, so I interpret it, was called Blue Moon.”
In his article Lafleur was referring to the topical or seasonal year, and not the calendar year.Pruett did not spot this detail and made a false assumption. Yet because the article was published in a popular scientific magazine with a large circulation, it was from then on cited enough over the following years that this mistaken definition became the accepted one.
This definition is based on the Gregorian calendar, and as such is discounted for the remainder of this article. Here we focus on astronomical or seasonal Blue Moons which are defined by the timings of the sky, rather that where the full moon happens to fall on the Christian Gregorian calendar.
The sequence of Blue Moons is very predictable. Over the course of 19 years the patterns of the moon and sun re-align. This is known as the Metonic sequence or cycle. During this 19 year cycle, a season with 4 full moons will occur 7 times. In fact, if you look at the Druidcraft Calendar, you can see that there are 7 leap years in a cycle, and this year (2019) is the 6th leap year of this cycle (year 17). This means we will have 13 full moons this year, and the Blue Moon will occur this year on the 18th May. In the 19 year cycle the Blue Moons will almost always occur in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years. Where exactly in the year, in which season the blue moon will fall is another matter.
Defining the seasons
Blue moons are worked out based on what are called the astronomical seasons. Each season starts with either a solstice or equinox. So astronomically spring begins on the spring equinox and ends at the summer solstice. However, the orbit of the earth around the sun is not even, resulting in seasons of different lengths.
Spring: 92.75 days Summer: 93.65 days Autumn: 89.85 days Winter: 88.99 days
Total: 365.24 days
What this means is that summer and spring together at 186.4 days is considerably longer than winter and autumn together at 178.84 days in the northern hemisphere. 7.56 days longer to be exact. It is therefore much more likely that a Blue Moon will occur in summer and spring, as opposed to winter or autumn. Between the years 1910 and 2097 there are 34 summer Blue Moons and 29 spring Blue Moons. Yet during the same period there are only 6 Autumn Blue Moons and 2 winter Blue Moons.
The exact sequence that determines which season a Blue Moon will fall in is difficult to pin down, and I am yet to fully discover any recognisable pattern. The data I was able to find available online was limited to 200 years, so in order to understand Blue Moons correctly beyond that I create a new calculator that will generate a list of Blue Moons from any given year. I was then able to determine that the average sequence for Blue Moons in a Metonic Cycle looks like this.
Metonic year 3 – Summer Blue Moon Metonic year 6 – Spring Blue Moon Metonic year 8 – Summer or Autumn Moon Metonic year 11 – Summer Blue Moon Metonic year 14 – Spring Blue Moon Metonic year 17 – Spring Blue Moon Metonic year 19 – Summer Blue Moon
But this is just the average, any one of the years can have a Blue Moon in any season, it is just much more likely it will be in the season mentioned above.
Spotting a Blue Moon on the Druidcraft calendar.
It is actually very simple to spot a Blue Moon coming using the Druidcraft calendar.
If the Sun peg is in any of the solar festival holes (solstice of equinox holes) and a full moon occurs before you next have to move the Sun peg, then there is the possibility of a Blue Moon in the coming season. If by the time the third full moon occurs the Sun Peg still has 5 holes to travel until the next solar festival, then the current full moon is a Blue Moon. If the Sun Peg only has 4 holes remaining then it is still possibly a blue moon, but you will not know for sure until you see the 4th moon occur before the next solar festival, count forward, or look up the times for the solar festival and full moon.
What has all this got to do with moon names?
What this means is that if you want to name the full moons throughout the year, and maintain any synchronization with the seasons you need the 12 standard moon names for the 3 moons per season, and at least one additional moon name for the 13th month even if you just refer to it as the Blue Moon. The problem is the 13th moon could fall in any season. So you could have as many as 4 additional moon names, depending on where in the year the Blue Moon occurs resulting in as many as 16 moon or month names in total.
If you are creating a lunar calendar you have a few choices. Regardless, you usually end up with 12 or 13 moon names. You can choose to follow another cycle of the moon, such as a 28 day “lunar” calendar which with some correction can follow the sidereal month, but then you are not naming “full moons” because the sidereal month is not the cycle that determines the lunations of the moon. Another option is to have 12 months and not name them with any relation to the seasons, understanding that if you have a “cold month”, after a few years it will end up being in the middle of summer. Or you can introduce a 13th month for the Blue Moons, which will keep your calendar more in sync with the seasons. For this reason I would suggest that where we see a calendar of 12 moon names and they are named after seasons, this is a clue that there is a missing 13th month, or the months are not the names of full moons. The final option is to divorce the concept of a month from the moon, and use it simply as a division of days of a solar year, as we do today with the Gregorian calendar.
The following tables detail the names of the moons from cultures all around the world. Some of the lists are incomplete. Some of them, we do not know the calendar system they were a part of and so do not know if we are missing moon names. Where the intercalary month has been identified, it has been highlighted in red. This list of moon names will therefore remain a work in progress and be updated as and when new information is discovered. If you are aware of any that are not currently on the list, then I encourage you to comment on this article. For now though, here are the names of the moons from around the world starting with the moon after the winter solstice where I was able to determine it.
Babylonian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Araḫ Nisānu
Month of the Sanctuary
2nd
Araḫ Āru
Month of the Bull
3rd
Araḫ Simanu
Month of Tammuz
4th
Araḫ Dumuzu
5th
Araḫ Abu
6th
Araḫ Ulūlu
Month of Beginnings
7th
Araḫ Tišritum
Month of Laying Foundations
8th
Araḫ Samnu
9th
Araḫ Kislimu
Month of Forthcoming Water
10th
Araḫ Ṭebētum
11th
Araḫ Šabaṭu
Month of Adar
12th
Araḫ Addaru / Adār
13th
Araḫ Makaruša Addari
14th
Araḫ Addaru Arku
15th
Araḫ Ulūlu
Hebrew
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Nisan
2nd
lyar
3rd
Sivan
4th
Tammuz
5th
Av
6th
Elul
7th
Tishrei
8th
Marcheshvan
9th
Kislev
10th
Tevet
11th
Shevat
12th
Adar
13th
Egyptian
Seasonal
Moon
Name
Name
1st
1st Month of Flood
2nd
2nd Month of Flood
3rd
3rd Month of Flood
4th
4th Month of Flood
5th
1st Month of Growth
6th
2nd Month of Growth
7th
3rd Month of Growth
8th
4th Month of Growth
9th
1st Month of Low Water
10th
2nd Month of Low Water
11th
3rd Month of Low Water
12th
4th Month of Low Water
13th
Middle Kingdom
Moon
Name
Name
1st
Tḫy
2nd
Mnht
3rd
Ḥwt-ḥwr
4th
KꜢ-ḥr-KꜢ
5th
Sf-Bdt
6th
Rḫ Wr
7th
Rḫ Nds
8th
Rnwt
9th
Ḫnsw
10th
Hnt-htj
11th
pt-hmt
12th
Wp Rnpt
13th
New Kingdom
Moon
Name
Name
1st
Ḏḥwtyt
2nd
P-n-ip.t
3rd
Ḥwt-ḥwr
4th
KꜢ-ḥr-KꜢ
5th
TꜢ-ꜥb
6th
Mḫyr
7th
P-n-imn-ḥtp.w
8th
P-n-rnn.t
9th
P-n-ḫns.w
10th
P-n-in.t
11th
Ipip
12th
wt Rꜥ
13th
Hryw Rnpt
Coptic
Moon
Name
Name
1st
Thôut
2nd
Baôba
3rd
Hatûr
4th
Koiak Kiahk
5th
Tôbi
6th
Meshir
7th
Baramhat
8th
Barmoda
9th
Bashons
10th
Baôni
11th
Apip
12th
Masôri
13th
Bikuji n’awot
Ancient Greek
Aetolian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Prokuklios – Προκύκλιος
2nd
Athanaios – Ἀθαναίος
3rd
Boukatios – Βουκάτιος
4th
Dios – Διός
5th
Euthaios – Ἑυθυαίος
6th
Homoloios – Ὁμολώιος
7th
Hermaios – Ἑρμαίος
8th
Dionusios – Διονύσιος
9th
Agueios – Ἀγύειος
10th
Hippodromos – Ἱπποδρόμιος
11th
Laphraios – Λαφραίος
12th
Panamos – Πάναμος
Argolian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Ermaios – Ερμαίος
2nd
Arneios – Αρνείος
3rd
4th
5th
6th
Panamos – Πάναμος
7th
Aguieos – Αγυιέος
8th
Karneios – Κάρνειος
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
Attic
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Hekatombaion – Ἑκατομβαιών
2nd
Metageitnion – Μεταγειτνιών
3rd
Boedromion – Βοηδρομιών
4th
Pyanepsion – Πυανεψιών
5th
Maimakterion – Μαιμακτηριών
6th
Poseideon – Ποσιδεών (later Ποσειδεών)
7th
Gamelion – Γαμηλιών
8th
Anthesterion – Ἀνθεστηριών
9th
Elaphebolion – Ἑλαφηβολιών
10th
Mounichion – Μουνυχιών (later Μουνιχιών)
11th
Thargelion – Θαργηλιών
12th
Skirophorion – Σκιροφοριών
13th
Boeotian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Bucatios – Βουκάτιος
2nd
Hermaios – Ἑρμαίος
3rd
Prostaterios – Προστατήριος
4th
Agrionios – Ἀγριώνιος
5th
Homoloios – Ὁμολώιος
6th
Theilouthios – Θειλούθιος
7th
Hippodromios – Ἱπποδρόμιος
8th
Panamos – Πάναμος
9th
Pamboiotios – Παμβοιώτιος
10th
Damatrios – Δαμάτριος
11th
Alalkomenios or Alkumenios – Ἀλαλκομένιος or Ἀλκυμένιος
12th
13th
Corinthian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Phoinikaios – Φοινικαίος
2nd
Kraneios – Κράνειος
3rd
Lanotropios, Heliotropios or Haliotropios – Λανοτρόπιος
4th
Machaneus – Μαχανεύς
5th
Dodekateus – Δωδεκατεύς
6th
Eukleios – Εύκλειος
7th
Artemisios – Ἀρτεμίσιος
8th
Psydreus – Ψυδρεύς
9th
Gamilios – Γαμείλιος
10th
Agrianios – Ἀγριάνιος
11th
Panamos – Πάναμος
12th
Apellaios – Απελλαίος
13th
Cretan
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Thesmophorion
2nd
Hermaios
3rd
Eiman
4th
Matarchios
5th
Agyios
6th
Dioscouros
7th
Theodosios
8th
Pontos
9th
Rhabinthios
10th
Hyperberetos
11th
Necysios
12th
Basilios
13th
Delphic
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Bucatios – Βουκάτιος
2nd
Heraios – Ἡραίος
3rd
Apellaios – Ἀπελλαίος
4th
–
5th
Dadaphorios – Δαδαφόριος
6th
Poitropios – Ποιτρόπιος
7th
Bysios – Βύσιος
8th
Artemisios – Ἀρτεμίσιος
9th
Heracleios – Ἡράκλειος
10th
Boathoos – Βοαθόος
11th
Ilaios – Ιλαίος
12th
Theoxenios – Θεοξένιος
13th
Elian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
–
2nd
Apollonios – Ἀπολλώνιος
3rd
Parthenios – Παρθένιος
4th
Alphioios – Ἀλφιοίος
5th
Athanaios – Ἀθαναίος
6th
Thuios – Θυΐος
7th
–
8th
Diosthuos – Διόσθυος
9th
–
10th
Elaphios – Ελάφιος
11th
–
12th
–
13th
–
Epidaurian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Azosios – Αζόσιος
2nd
Karneios – Κάρνειος
3rd
Praratios – Πραράτιος
4th
Ermaios – Ερμαίος
5th
Gamos – Γάμος
6th
Teleos – Τέλεος
7th
Posidaios – Ποσίδαιος
8th
Artamisios – Αρταμίσιος
9th
Agrianios – Αγριάνιος
10th
Panamos – Πάναμος
11th
Kuklios – Κύκλιος
12th
Apellaios – Απελλαίος
13th
Laconian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Panamos – Πάναμος
2nd
Herasios – Ἡράσιος
3rd
Apellaios – Ἀπελλαίος
4th
Diosthyos – Διόσθυος
5th
–
6th
Eleusinios – Ελευσίνιος
7th
Gerastios – Γεράστιος
8th
Artemisios – Ἀρτεμίσιος
9th
Delphinios – Δελφίνιος
10th
Phleiasios – Φλειάσιος
11th
Hecatombeus – Ἑκατομβεύς
12th
Karneios – Κάρνειος
13th
Macedonian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Dios – Δίος
2nd
Apellaios – Ἀπελλαῖος
3rd
Audunaios or Audnaios – Αὐδυναῖος or Αὐδναῖος
4th
Peritios – Περίτιος
5th
Dystros – Δύστρος
6th
Xandikos or Xanthikos – Ξανδικός or Ξανθικός
7th
Artemisios or Artamitios – Ἀρτεμίσιος or Ἀρταμίτιος
8th
Daisios – Δαίσιος
9th
Panemos or Panamos – Πάνημος or Πάναμος
10th
Loios – Λώιος
11th
Gorpiaios – Γορπιαῖος
12th
Hyperberetaios – Ὑπερβερεταῖος
13th
Rhodian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Agrianios – Ἀγριάνιος
2nd
Badromios – Βαδρόμιος
3rd
Theudasios – Θευδάσιος
4th
Dalios – Δάλιος
5th
Artamitios – Ἀρταμίτιος
6th
Panamos and Panamos embolimos – Πάναμος
7th
Pedageitnyos – Πεδαγειτνύος
8th
Hyacynthios – Ὑακίνθιος
9th
Karneios – Κάρνειος
10th
Thesmophorios – Θεσμοφόριος
11th
Sminthios – Σμίνθιος
12th
Diosthyos – Διόσθυος
13th
Sicilian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Thesmophorios
2nd
Dalios
3rd
–
4th
Agrianios
5th
–
6th
Theudasios
7th
Artamitios
8th
–
9th
Badromios
10th
Hyacinthios
11th
Carneios
12th
Panamos
13th
Thessalian
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Itonios – Ἰτῶνιος
2nd
Panemos – Πάνημος
3rd
Themistios – Θεμίστιος
4th
Agagylios – Ἀγαγύλιος
5th
Apollonios – Ἀπολλῶνιος
6th
Hermaios – Ἑρμαῖος
7th
Leschanorios – Λεσχανόριος
8th
Aphrios – Ἂφριος
9th
Thyios – Θυίος
10th
Homoloios – Ὁμολῶιος
11th
Hippodromios – Ἱπποδρόμιος
12th
Phyllikos – Φυλλικός
13th
Gallo-Roman
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Giamonios
Winter?
2nd
Semiuisonna
Before Spring?
3rd
Equos
Horse?
4th
Elembiuos
Deer?
5th
Aedrinios
Fire/Heat?
6th
Cantlos
Song?
7th
Samonios
Summer?
8th
Dumannios
Dark/Smoke?
9th
Riuros
great/big/sturdy?
10th
Anagantio
11th
Ogronnios
cold month
12th
Cutios
13th
Quimonios
14th
Rantaranos
The monthin between
Chinese
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Winter Month – Dōngyuè
The winter solstice
2nd
Preserved Month -Làyuè
Preserve meats ready for Spring Festival
3rd
Start Month – Zhēngyuè
It starts the year.
4th
Apricot Month – Xìngyuè
Apricot trees blossom.
5th
Peach Month – Táoyuè
Peach trees blossom.
6th
Locust Tree Month – Huáiyuè
Locust trees blossom.
7th
Sweet Sedge Month Púyuè
Dragon Boat Festival
8th
Lotus Month – Héyuè
Lotus flowers bloom.
9th
Skill Month – Qiǎoyuè
Women prayed for and showed their dexterous domestic skills.
10th
Osmanthus Month – Guìyuè
Osmanthus flowers bloom.
11th
Chrysanthemum Month – Júyuè
Chrysanthemum flowers bloom.
12th
Yang Month – Yángyuè
The Taoist yang force is believed to be strong this month.
13th
Anglo-Saxon
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Æftera Geola
After Yule
2nd
Sōlmōnath
Month of Cakes
3rd
Hrēðmonath
Month of Goddess Hretha
4th
Eostremonath
Month of Goddess Eostar
5th
Thrimilce
Three Milkings Month
6th
Ærraliða
Before Calm
7th
Æfteraliða
After Calm
8th
Weodmonath
Weed Month
9th
Hāligmonath
Harvest Month
10th
Winterfylleth
Winter Full
11th
Blōtmonath
Blood/Sacrifice Month
12th
Ærra Geola
Yule
13th
Norse
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Ýlir
Month of god Odin
2nd
Mörsugur
Fat Month
3rd
Þorri
Month of god Thorri
4th
Gói
Moth of Goddess Gói
5th
Einmánuður
Boys Month?
6th
Harpa
Girls Month?
7th
Skerpla
Growth?
8th
Sólmánuður
Sun Month
9th
Heyannir
May Making Month
10th
Tvímánuður
11th
Haustmánuður
Harvest Month
12th
Gormánuður
Butcher month
13th
North American
Abenaki
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
alamikos
greetings maker moon
2nd
piaôdagos
makes branches fall in pieces moon
3rd
mozokas
moose hunter moon
4th
sigwankas
spring season maker moon
5th
sogalikas
sugar maker moon
6th
kikas
field maker moon
7th
nokahigas
hoer moon
8th
temaskikos
grass cutter moon
9th
temezôwas
cutter moon
10th
skamonkas
corn maker moon
11th
penibagos
leaf falling moon
12th
mzatanos
freezing river maker moon
13th
pebonkas
winter maker moon
Algonquin
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
squochee kesos
sun has not strength to thaw
2nd
wapicuummilcum
ice in river is gone
3rd
namossack kesos
catching fish
4th
suquanni kesos
when they set indian corn
5th
moonesquanimock kesos
when women weed corn
6th
twowa kesos
when they hill indian corn
7th
matterllawaw kesos
squash are ripe
8th
micheenee kesos
when indian corn is edible
9th
pohquitaqunk kesos
middle between harvest and eating corn
10th
pepewarr
white frost on grass
11th
quinne kesos
much white frost on grass
12th
13th
Anishnaabe
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
gichi-manidoo-giizis
great spirits moon
2nd
namebini-giizis
sucker moon
3rd
bebookwaadaagame-giizis(oog)
snow crust moon
4th
iskigamizige-giizis(oog)
broken snowshow moon
5th
waabigwani-giizis
blossom moon
6th
ode’imini-giizis
strawberry moon
7th
aabita-niibino-giizis
raspberry moon
8th
miini-giizis
berry moon
9th
manoominike-giizis
rice moon
10th
binaakwe-giizis
falling leaves moon
11th
gashkadino-giizis(oog)
freezing moon
12th
manidoo-gizisoons
small spirits moon
13th
Apache
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
time of flying ants
2nd
3rd
4th
moon of the big leaves
5th
season when the leaves are green
6th
7th
moon of the horse/time of ripeness
8th
9th
10th
time when the corn is taken in
11th
12th
13th
Arapaho
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
when snow blows like spirits in the wind
2nd
frost sparkling in the sun
3rd
buffalo dropping their calves
4th
ice breaking in the river
5th
when the ponies shed their shaggy hair
6th
when when the buffalo bellows
7th
the hot weather begins
8th
when the chokeberries begin to ripen
9th
geese shedding their feathers
10th
drying grass
11th
falling leaves
12th
when the rivers start to freeze
13th
popping trees
Assiniboine
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
wicogandu
center moon
2nd
amhanska
long dry moon
3rd
wicinstayazan
sore eye moon
4th
tabehatawi
frog moon
5th
indiwiga
idle moon
6th
wahequosmewi
full leaf moon
7th
wasasa
red berries
8th
capasapsaba
black cherries
9th
wahpegiwi
yellow leaf
10th
anukope
joins both sides
11th
Tasnaheja-hagikta
striped gopher looks back moon
12th
cuhotgawi
frost moon
13th
wicogandu-sungagu
center moon’s younger brother
Cherokee
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
unolvtana
cold moon
2nd
kagali
bony moon
3rd
anvhyi
strawberry moon
4th
kawohni
flower moon
5th
ansgvti
planting moon
6th
dehaluyi
green corn moon
7th
kuyegwona
ripe corn moon
8th
galohni
drying up moon
9th
dulisdi
nut moon
10th
duninhdi
harvest moon
11th
nvdadegwa
trading moon
12th
vskihyi
snow moon
13th
Cheyenne
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
moon of the strong cold
2nd
3rd
4th
when the geese lay eggs
5th
when the horses get fat
6th
7th
8th
9th
drying grass moon
10th
freeze begins on stream’s edge
11th
deer rutting moon
12th
when the wolves run together
13th
Choctaw
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
Hash Haf
moon of sassafras
2nd
Hash Chaf Iskono
moon of little famine
3rd
Hash Chaf Chito
moon of big famine
4th
Hash Mali
moon of winds
5th
Hash Bissi
moon of blackberry
6th
Hash Bihi
moon of mulberry
7th
Hash Takkon
moon of peach
8th
Hash Watallak
moon of the crane
9th
Hash Luak Mosholi
green corn festival
10th
Hash Tek Inhasi
courting time
11th
Hash Koinchush
moon of the wildcat
12th
Hash Koichus
moon of the panther
13th
Hash Haponi
moon of cooking
Comanche
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
toh mua
year moon
2nd
positsu mua
sleet moon
3rd
tahpooku mua
cottonball moon
4th
tahma mua
new spring moon
5th
totsiyaa mua
flower moon
6th
puhi mua
leaf moon
7th
urui mua
hot moon
8th
tahma mua
summer moon
9th
taboo mua
paperman moon
10th
yuba mua
fall moon
11th
yubaubi mua
heading to winter moon
12th
wahi mua
evergreen moon
13th
Cree
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
gishepapiwatekimumpizun
moon when the old fellow spreads the brush
2nd
cepizun
old moon
3rd
migisupizum
eagle moon
4th
kiskipizun
gray goose moon
5th
aligipizun
frog moon
6th
sagipukawipizun
moon leaves come out
7th
opaskwuwipizun
moon when ducks begin to molt
8th
opunhopizun
moon young ducks begin to fly
9th
weweopizun
snow goose moon
10th
opinahamowipizun
moon the birds fly south
11th
kaskatinopizun
moon the rivers begin to freeze
12th
papiwatiginashispizun
moon when the young fellow spreads the brush
13th
Creek
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
rv’fo cusee
winter’s younger brother
2nd
hotvlee-hv’see
wind moon
3rd
tasahcucee
little spring moon
4th
tasahcee-rakko
big spring moon
5th
kee-hvsee
mulberry moon
6th
kvco-hvsee
blackberry moon
7th
hiyucee
little harvest
8th
hiyo-rakko
big harvest
9th
otowoskucee
little chestnut moon
10th
otowoskv-rakko
big chestnut moon
11th
echolee
frost moon
12th
rvfo-rakko
big winter
13th
Haida
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
táan kungáay
bear hunting moon
2nd
hlgit’ún kungáay
goose moon
3rd
xitgáas kungáay
noisy goose moon
4th
xíit kungáay
migratory geese moon
5th
tahálaa kungáay
food-gathering moon
6th
gáan kungáay
berries ripen moon
7th
chíin kungáay
salmon moon
8th
k’íit’aas kungáay
cedar bark for hat & baskets
9th
kálk kungáay
ice moon
10th
cha’áaw kungáay
bears hibernate
11th
t’a’áaw kungáay
snow moon
12th
gáangálang kungáay
ripe berries
13th
Hopi
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
paamuya
moon of life at its height
2nd
powamuya
moon of purification and renewal
3rd
osomuyaw
moon of the whispering wind
4th
kwiyamuyaw
moon of windbreak
5th
hakitonmuyaw
moon of waiting
6th
uyismuya
moon of planting
7th
nimanmuya
moon of the homedance
8th
paamuya
moon of joyful
9th
nasanmuyaw
moon of full harvest
10th
angaqmuyaw
moon of long hair
11th
kelmuya
moon of fledgling hawk
12th
kyaamuya
moon of respect
13th
Kalapuya
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
atalka
stay inside
2nd
atchiulartadsh
out of food
3rd
atcha-uyu
women dig camas
4th
amanta kotantal
time for pounding camas
5th
atantal
camas blooming time
6th
anishnalya
camas ripe
7th
ameku
mid summer
8th
akupiu
end of summer
9th
atchiutchutin
after harvest
10th
atchalankuaik
start getting sagittair roots
11th
alangitapi
moving inside for winter
12th
adshampak
not bad weather
13th
Lakota
Moon
Name
Meaning
1st
wiotehika wi
hard moon
2nd
cannapopa wi
moon when the trees crack because of the cold
3rd
istawicayazan wi
moon of the sore eyes
4th
wihakaktacepapi wi
moon when the wife had to crack bones for marrow fat
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During the coming night, more on Monday morning, there will be Moon eclipse. I had of course a look how this event is reflected on our Druidcraft calendar as this is the first time of such an event since I have it. So, I think you can roughly see the constellation where the yellow sun peg and the white moon peg are lined up between the red pegs of the most outer ring. It is not 100% in line, but it seems to be enough for the eclipse. ... See MoreSee Less
I would like to add the heliacal rising of the major fixed stars to the online calendar over the next few weeks. I am currently struggling to get the calculation/code to work correctly but in the meantime I have discovered something quite interesting. It turns out that in the Uruk scheme (the Mesopotamian 19 year calendar that predates the Metonic system) each star had a 'usual' month and an early and late month due to the shifting nature of the lunar month in relation to the solar/stellar year. when a star rose late or early it was considered ominous. This kind of identification of an ominous moment would of course be possible using the Druidcraft Calendar too, but it is entirely absent from modern astrology or esoteric gregorian calendar studies. ... See MoreSee Less
I am so thankful to find this group and calendar. I was trying to expand my personal calendar to have all these movements, I pictured this exactly in my mind but could never get it all together. For 15 years I had my own that I had made following the SUN ORBITS AND LUNAR CALENDAR from the 2nd chapter of Enoch. It is very simular but not as accurate. I am looking forward to this addition to my Daily Ritual! ... See MoreSee Less