Last night, beyond the unseasonal fog, rose a blue moon, meaning the second full moon to occur within a calendar month (this being the youngest definition though not the only). It is also an extra or thirteenth full moon to occur in a year (an occasional but inevitable event due to the discrepancy of solar and lunar cycles). A May moon for us Western time-zoners but if you live east of the Greenwich zone then you get a full blue moon in June. How poetic. Add it to the lyrical list of moon tags: wet moon, sturgeon moon, sugar moon, sap moon, cheshire crescent, waxing gibbous...on it goes. What to do with a full blue moon in June?
Friday, June 01, 2007
Blue Moon June
Last night, beyond the unseasonal fog, rose a blue moon, meaning the second full moon to occur within a calendar month (this being the youngest definition though not the only). It is also an extra or thirteenth full moon to occur in a year (an occasional but inevitable event due to the discrepancy of solar and lunar cycles). A May moon for us Western time-zoners but if you live east of the Greenwich zone then you get a full blue moon in June. How poetic. Add it to the lyrical list of moon tags: wet moon, sturgeon moon, sugar moon, sap moon, cheshire crescent, waxing gibbous...on it goes. What to do with a full blue moon in June?
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