{"id":401983,"date":"2026-04-28T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:24:08","slug":"may-full-moon-when-to-see-the-flower-moon-rise-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401983\/","title":{"rendered":"May full Moon: When to see the &#8216;Flower Moon&#8217; rise this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">May&#8217;s full Flower Moon is set to light up the night sky on Friday 1 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will rise as daylight fades, appearing low in the eastern sky before climbing toward the south-east as midnight approaches. Throughout the night it will cross the southern sky before setting off to the south-west around dawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The term Flower Moon comes from Native American seasonal naming traditions and was later popularised through sources such as the Farmer&#8217;s Almanac. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These names were rooted in the natural world, reflecting the changes unfolding each month &#8211; and in May, that meant the burst of wildflowers, warmer weather, and renewed plant growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meaning fits beautifully in the UK as well. By early May, the country is awash with colour: bluebells carpet ancient woodlands, hawthorn blossoms brighten hedgerows, and the lengthening days stretch into gentle, warm evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s full Flower Moon is set to light up the night sky on Friday 1 May. It will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-401983","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\/401983","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=401983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}