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The full moon for July 2011 takes place tonight, July 15th. I've recently discovered that the full moon for each month has many, many unique names, depending on culture and climate. My past full moon posts have been woefully lacking!
Here, then, is a plethora of full moon names for July:
Grass Cutter Moon - Abenaki
Squash Are Ripe Moon - Algonquin
Esala Poya - Buddhist
Moon of Claiming - Celtic
Ripe Corn Moon - Cherokee
Hungry Ghost Moon - Chinese
Crane Moon - Choctaw
Little Harvest Moon - Choctaw
Summer Moon - Colonial American
Hot Moon - Comanche
Moon When Ducks Begin to Molt - Cree
Moon of the Middle Summer - Dakotah Sioux
Deer Moon - Deborean Clan
Mead Moon - English Medieval
Salmon Moon - Haida
Guru Poornima - Hindu
Ashada Purnima - Hindu
Vyasa Purnima - Hindu
Moon of the Homedance - Hopi
Camas Ripe Moon - Kalapuya
Moon When the Chokecherries Are Black - Lakota
Time of Much Ripening - Mohawk
Full Buck Moon - Native American
Full Thunder Moon - Native American
Full Hay Moon - Native American
Rose Moon - Neo Pagan
Middle of Summer Moon - Ponca
Moon of the Young Corn - Potawatomi
Summer Moon - Shoshone
Blessing Moon - Wiccan
Moon of Blood (due to mosquitoes) - Unknown
Fallow Moon - Unknown
Sources for full moon names:
- Farmers' Almanac - Full Moon Names and Their Meanings
- Moon Names
- A Witchy Life - July: Ripe Corn Moon
- RavensNest - July Full Moon
- Hindu Blog - Purnima 2011 - 2012
- Spring Wolf's Pagan's Path - Full Moon Names
- About.com: Paganism/Wicca - Moon Phase Names in the Southern Hemisphere
- Willow Grove - Esbats & Full Moon Names
- Wikipedia - Full Moon
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