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It may be a case of confirmation bias, but whether in my car or on my bicycle I've noticed more potholes lately.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full moon. This full moon is in the middle of the first of two second months in the Chinese calendar.Ĭontinuing the tradition of naming moons after prominent phenomena tied to the time of year, a few years ago my friend Tom Van Wagner suggested naming this the Pothole Moon. Lunisolar calendars sometimes add or repeat a month to keep the lunar months aligned with the solar seasons. Many lunar and lunisolar calendars start the months on the new Moon with the full moon in the middle of the month. Shia Muslims also celebrate this as Mid-Sha'ban. Moslems celebrate the 15th day of Sha'ban as Shab-e-Barat or Bara'at Night. This full moon is near the middle of Sha'ban, the eighth lunar month in the Islamic lunar calendar and the month before Ramadan. This full moon is Medin or Madin Poya, marking the Buddha’s first visit to his father after his enlightenment. Some authors referred to this day as the Buddhist All Saints Day.Įvery full moon is a holiday in Sri Lanka.

On the day, Buddhists celebrate the creation of an ideal and exemplary community, which is why it is sometimes called Saṅgha Day, Saṅgha referring to the Buddhist community. Māgha Pūjā celebrates a gathering of the Buddha with 1,250 of his first disciples, which, according to tradition, preceded the custom of periodic recitation of discipline by monks. Holi begins with a bonfire the evening before the day of the full moon, continues on the day of the full moon with a free-for-all game involving the spraying of colored powders and/or colored water on whomever wanders by, and ends with evening visits with friends and family.įor some Buddhist areas this full moon corresponds with Māgha Pūjā (while other areas celebrated this with the full moon in February). This two-day long festival is also known as the Festival of Love, Festival of Colors, or the Festival of Spring. Purim is celebrated by exchanging gifts of food and drink, feasting, and donating to charity.Īs the full moon in the Hindu month Phalguna, this Moon corresponds with the Holi festival, celebrating the victory of good over evil and the start of spring. This holiday marks the Jewish people’s deliverance from a royal death decree around the fourth century BCE, as told in the Book of Esther. In 2023, Purim will be from sunset on Monday, March 6 to nightfall on Tuesday, March 7. This full moon corresponds with Purim, which is celebrated on the 14th day of Adar (or on the 15th in Jerusalem and ancient walled cities) in the Hebrew calendar. Other names are the Chaste Moon or the Death Moon, related to the fasting of Lent and traditions from when the start of spring was the end of the old year and start of the new.

Most of the earthworms in these areas are invasive species introduced from Europe and Asia.Ī European name for this full moon is the Lenten Moon, as this corresponds with Lent, the traditional period of fasting that precedes Easter. After these glaciers melted about 12,000 years ago the more northern forests grew back without earthworms. When glaciers covered the northern part of North America they wiped out the native earthworms. It makes sense that only the southern tribes called this the Worm Moon. The more southern tribes called this the Worm Moon after the earthworm casts that appeared as the ground thawed. Other northern names were the Crust Moon, because the snow cover became crusted from thawing by day and freezing by night, or the Sap (or Sugar) Moon as this was the time for tapping maple trees. The more northern tribes of the northeastern United States knew this as the Crow Moon, with the cawing of crows signaling the end of winter. According to this almanac, as the full moon in March the tribes of the northeastern United States called this the Crow, Crust, Sap, Sugar, or Worm Moon. The Maine Farmers' Almanac began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s and these names are now widely known and used. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning (and possibly early Wednesday evening). This will be on Wednesday morning from Kamchatka and Fiji Time eastward to the International Date Line. The next full moon will be Tuesday morning, March 7, 2023, appearing opposite the Sun in Earth-based longitude at 7:40 AM EST. The Next full moon is the Crow, Crust, Sap, Sugar, or Worm Moon the Lenten, Chaste, or Death Moon, the full moon of Purim the full moon of Holi Māgha Pūjā and Medin Poya Mid-Sha'ban and the Pothole Moon.

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