Thursday, December 27, 2012

Full moon names for December 28th, 2012

Full moon. Image: morgueFile.

The full moon for December 2012 takes place tonight, December 28th. The exact time varies with your location. Following is a list of full moon names for December, ranging from common to surprising.

Winter Maker Moon - Abenaki
Full Cold Moon - Algonquin
Long Nights Moon - Algonquin
Small Spirits Moon - Anishnaabe
Popping Trees Moon - Arapaho
Center Moon's Younger Brother - Assiniboine
Unduvap Poya - Buddhist
Cold Moon - Celtic
Before Yule Moon - Cherokee
Snow Moon - Cherokee
Moon When the Wolves Run Together/Running Wolves Moon - Cheyenne
Bitter Moon - Chinese
Peach Moon - Choctaw
Christmas Moon - Colonial American
Big Cold Moon - Comanche
Evergreen Moon - Comanche
When the Young Fellow Spreads the Brush - Cree
Big Winter Moon - Creek
Twelfth Moon - Dakotah Sioux
Cold Moon - Deborean
Oak Moon - English Medieval
Ripe Berries - Haida
Datta Jayanti - Hindu
Margashirsa Purnima - Hindu
Respect Moon - Hopi
Kaitvitjuitk Moon - Inuit
Oak Moon - Janic
Snow Moon Dark - Janic
Not Bad Weather - Kalapuya
Nachuweenu daawaatra - Keresan
Real Goose Moon - Kiowa
Heavy Snow - Klamath
Little Finger Moon (counting on fingers, beginning in August) - Klamath
Halapisu - Kumeyaay
Time of Cold/Cold Time Moon - Mohawk
Under Burn - Mountain Maidu
Crusted Snow - Navajo
Long Night Moon - Neo Pagan
Oak Moon - Pagan
Frost Fish Moon - Passamaquoddy
Leaves Yellow and Fall - Pomo
Ashes Fire Moon - San Juan
Eccentric Moon - Shawnee
Winter Moon - Shoshoni
Moon of Popping Trees - Sioux
Moon When Buffalo Cow's Fetus Is Getting Large - Sioux
Moon When Deer Shed Their Horns - Sioux
Night Moon - Taos
Unborn Seals Are Getting Hair - Tlingit
Small Spirits Moon - Unknown
Ice Lasts All Day - Valley Maidu
Long Nights Moon - Wiccan
Big Bear's Moon - Winnebago
Her Winter Houses Moon - Wishram
Jesu Cristo Toomtek Meecha - Yaqui
Middle of Winter - Yuchi
Kohtsewets - Yurok
The Sun Has Traveled South to his Home to Rest Before He Starts Back on his Journey North - Zuni
Turning Moon - Zuni

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