Full Moons in 2017

Full Moons in 2017


Jan. 12 Wendigo Moon
Feb. 10 Crystalline Moon (penumbral eclipse)
Mar. 12 Easter Moon
Apr. 11 Budding Moon
May 10 Whippoorwill Moon
June 09 Green Moon
July 09 Oven Moon / Thunder Moon
Aug. 07 Mild Moon
Sept. 06 Misty Mushroom Moon
Oct. 05 Orion/Hunter's Moon
Nov. 04 Frost Moon
Dec. 03 Winter Moon

January

It's 7:45am and sky's darkness is slowly lifting, I'm looking out over Grassy Lake and the Moon is still an hour away from setting in the West. It has dominated the sky since 6pm yesterday and its moonlight turned the whole night into a pale shadow of day. The Sun seems like the interloper. This is the wintery Kingdom of Night. 

The Moon rose against a thicket of cross-hatched branches laden with snow, then a thin layer of cloud that flowed like pack ice, below where over-lapping trails of fox and rabbit playing out the game of life and death on the frozen land.

Then thin clouds pass quickly over the it, like a quilt being pulled off, leaving only the bare unadorned winter sky. It is now only the evergreens that fringe all horizons that keep the totality of the Moon-illumed void from crushing down on me.

The rest of the night the Moon shines like a floodlight in our bedroom window.

8:00 am and still 3 fingers above an increasingly mauve horizon. I head out into the snow to observe but by the time I get to the a good view the horizon has turned as pale white as the Moon. The western side of Grassy Lake gets sunlight a few hours before we do. The Sun will strut and fret for the next 8 hours and then return control to the Moon for the rest of the 24.