\n What other nicknames do full moons have?\n <\/p>\n
The Snow Moon is just one of the many names given to each full moon of the year, predominantly by Native Americans.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the others, according to the Royal Observatory Greenwich:<\/p>\n
January: Wolf Moon<\/p>\n
This one is named after the howling of wolves struggling for food in midwinter.<\/p>\n
February: Snow Moon<\/p>\n
March: Worm Moon<\/p>\n
Native Americans named this after the worm trails that would appear in the thawed ground as it warmed up when winter made way for spring. <\/p>\n
April: Pink Moon<\/p>\n
This one was named after a species of early blooming wildflower.<\/p>\n
May: Flower Moon<\/p>\n
This refers to the vast blooming seen as spring gets properly under way.<\/p>\n
June: Strawberry Moon<\/p>\n
This is its North American name, a nod to the harvesting of strawberries in June.<\/p>\n
July: Buck Moon<\/p>\n
A tribute to male deer, which begin to grow back their antlers in July, having shed them earlier in the year. <\/p>\n
August: Sturgeon Moon<\/p>\n
Sturgeons, now the most endangered species group on Earth, used to appear in large numbers during August. <\/p>\n
September: Full Corn Moon<\/p>\n
September is the month crops are gathered following the end of summer. <\/p>\n
The Full Corn Moon appears bright and rises early, allowing farmers to continue harvesting into the night. <\/p>\n
October: Hunter’s Moon<\/p>\n
Like its predecessor, the Hunter’s Moon is bright and long, which gives hunters a rare opportunity to search for prey at night. <\/p>\n
Hunters also benefit from deer and fox being unable to hide in fields which lay bare after crops are harvested.<\/p>\n
November: Beaver Moon<\/p>\n
There is debate over why Native Americans chose this name. <\/p>\n
Some believe it came from them setting beaver traps during this month, while others say it comes from many beavers building their winter dams.<\/p>\n
December: Cold Moon<\/p>\n
A straightforward name for this winter month’s full moon. Others include the Long Night Moon and the Oak Moon.<\/p>\n
The Blue Moon<\/p>\n
This is where the phrase “once in a blue moon” comes from \u2013 because these come about every so often.<\/p>\n
The moon completes 12 full cycles of its phases in about 354 days \u2013 meaning it’s around 11 days short of a calendar year.<\/p>\n
Every two and a half years or so the difference adds up to an extra, 13th full moon occurring during the year, the Observatory says.<\/p>\n
We also sometimes refer to a second full moon occurring in one month as a Blue Moon.<\/p>\n
Unlike with our typical moon names, we don’t know exactly where this one came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What other nicknames do full moons have? The Snow Moon is just one of the many names given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-262612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}