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The full moon for July 2012 takes place on July 3rd or 4th, depending on your location. Here's a plethora of full moon names for July. Some are bound to have personal meaning for you:
Grass Cutter Moon - Abenaki
Buck Moon - Algonquin
Hay Moon - Algonquin
Indian Beans Begin to Be Edible - Algonquin
Squash Are Ripe Moon - Algonquin
Summer Moon - Algonquin
Thunder Moon - Algonquin
Raspberry Moon - Anishnaabe
Moon of the Horse - Apache
Time of Ripeness - Apache
When the Buffalo Bellows - Arapaho
When the Chokeberries Begin to Ripen - Arapaho
Red Berries Moon - Assiniboine
Esala Poya - Buddhist
Moon of Claiming - Celtic
Hay Moon - Cherokee
Ripe Corn Moon - Cherokee
Hungry Ghost Moon - Chinese
Crane Moon - Choctaw
Little Harvest Moon - Choctaw
Summer Moon - Colonial American
Hot Moon - Comanche
Large Moon - Comanche
Moon When Ducks Begin to Moult - Cree
Blackberry Moon - Creek
Little Harvest Moon - Creek
Little Heat Moon - Creek
Little Ripening Moon - Creek
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 Fledgeling Hawk - Hopi
Moon of the Homedance - Hopi
Raptor Moon - Hopi
Padlersersivik - Inuit
Blessing Moon - Janic
Claiming Moon - Janic
Camas Ripe Moon - Kalapuya
Midsummer Moon -Kalapuya
Sina kisraiti - Keresan
Little Moon of Deer Horns Dropping Off - Kiowa
Index-Finger (counting on fingers, beginning with thumb in August) - Klamath
Speluish - Klamath
Halamrtinya - Kumeyaay
Moon When the Chokecherries Are Black - Lakota
Ground Burn Moon - Maidu
Smoky Moon - Maidu
Mead Moon - Medieval English
Time of Much Ripening - Mohawk
Little Harvest Moon - Muscokee
Peaches Moon - Natchez
Full Buck Moon - Native American
Full Thunder Moon - Native American
Full Hay Moon - Native American
Small Harvest Moon - Navajo
Rose Moon - Neo Pagan
Moon When the Buffalo Bellow - Omaha
Ripening Moon - Passamaquoddy
Manzanita Ripens - Pomo
Middle of Summer Moon - Ponca
Moon of the Young Corn - Potawatomi
Ripe Moon - San Juan
Blackberry Moon - Shawnee
Summer Moon - Shoshone
Moon When the Wild Cherries Are Ripe - Sioux
Red Blooming Lilies Moon - Sioux
Red Cherries Moon - Sioux
Sun House Moon - Taos
Salmon Moon - Tlingit
Moon of Blood (due to mosquitoes) - Unknown
Fallow Moon - Unknown
Blessing Moon - Wiccan
Corn-Popping Moon - Winnebago
Salmon Go up the Rivers in a Group Moon - Wishram
Yuku Meecha - Yaqui
Middle of Summer Moon - Yuchi
Moon When Limbs of Trees Are Broken by Fruit - Zuni
Sources for full moon names:
- Farmers' Almanac - Full Moon Names and Their Meanings
- Moon Names
- Indian Moons, Days and Other Calendar Stuff
- A Witchy Life - July: Ripe Corn Moon
- Hindu Blog - Purnima 2012 dates and time
- 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
- Moon Names for a Full Year
- Wikipedia - Full Moon
More about the moon:
- Full moon calendar 2012 (for different time zones)
- Full Moon
- Keith's Moon Page
- USNO Data Services
- Google Moon
- National Geographic - Moon Facts
- Calendars through the Ages - A month of moons
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