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If you are tracking the Moon return to a certain zodiacal degree, say zero Capricorn, it will return to that degree every If you divide That means the Moon will cross that point or any other starting point 13 times each year.
That is why there are 12 months moonths in a year. It is important to realize the number 13 for the Moon is NOT what most people think it is. There are NOT 13 Full Moons every year regardless of whether you are tracking a calendar year, or a seasonal year — from one December Solstice to the next. Actually more often than not there are only 12 Full Moons a year.
That is why both 12 and 13 are sacred numbers, or sacred patterns for the Moon. Additionally, the 19 year pattern or cycle of the Moon is significant to our personal experience especially when we are turning 19, 38, 57, 76, and This 19 year Moon cycle is related to the Nodes of the Moon and the Eclipses. The point here is that there is more than one sacred number for the Moon, as the Moon has many patterns that are worth knowing and understanding, because these patterns do play out in our personal and collective experience.
The Tables Below show the patterns of the Full Moon occurring about every three years no matter what pattern you are tracking. Hi Cayelin… great article!!! Janet Booth on July 22, at am Hi, Cayelin — I enjoy your newsletters and was glad to see you explain the difference between the true origin of the term blue moon and the more common erroneous interpretation in use today. Each of the full moons had a name and a place in its season. When there was an extra full moon in winter, it affected the timing of Lent and Easter which is defined as the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.
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Thus, a blue moon does occur in a season with four full moons but it is NOT the fourth full moon, rather the third in the season. This method keeps the seasonal full moon names on track.
The seasonal type occurs five times in a dozen years using the 3rd of 4 in season definition : Nov. Janet Booth. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, so it is a significant event. Although your article focuses on Full Moons, the opposite is true as well — there will be two New Moons in the same month or sign in between when there are two Full Moons in the same month or sign.
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These events are just as important, if not more than Full Moons. During Full Moons, we have both classical planets, the Sun and the Moon, pulling on the Earth in opposite directions. However, during a New Moon phase those gravitational pulls are even greater when you have both the Moon and the Sun tugging on the Earth in the same direction. Plus as you mentioned when the Moon is Perigee or closest to the Earth the New Moon and Full Moon will have a greater affect on the tides and the weather patterns as was evidenced in the summer of when we had several occurrences of these Moon phases near the perigee.
I was in Wisconsin when they had all that mid-west flooding and tornadoes just after a Full Moon near Perigee that was also an out-of bounds Moon crossing Galactic Center. So that adds a whole other dimension to consider as well. The reason I focused on Full Moons is because they are so dramatically visible.
New Moons as currently calculated are not seen. Also, in Shamanic Astrology we do not see the Moon in Cancer as more important than any other sign.
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In fact those born with a Cancer Moon tend to have significant challenges that are culturally related. I know a more traditional approach to astrology says the Moon rules Cancer. The Moon does resonate most with Cancer but is equally important in all the signs. I feel very knowledgeable about the subject now. According to this definition the next Blue Moon will occur on January 31, Depending on the exact time of the Blue Moon it is possible that some places in the world don't technically have a Blue Moon. The modern definition of a Blue Moon was derived from an earlier idea of what a Blue Moon was.
This earlier definition says a Blue Moon is when there are 4 Full Moons in a season rather than the usual 3. The Blue moon is the 3rd Full Moon out of the 4. This definition gets a bit complicated and its origins are murky. One school of thought has to do with the naming of the Full Moons. Many cultures named the Full Moons each month to reflect the times for planting, harvesting or seasonal conditions. When an extra Full Moon was thrown in it was referred to as a Blue Moon to keep the Full Moon names constant throughout the year.
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Another origin could be from the Christian ecclesiastical calendar. This one gets even more tricky but basically has to do with the idea that there are usually 12 Full Moons in a year. The Full Moons on this calendar were important markers for determining certain dates such as Easter. When a 13th Full moon was thrown into the year it made things messy so giving it a name allowed the calendar to stay on track. The idea of a Blue Moon being the extra full Moon in a season or when there were 13 in a year was widely used in 19th and early 20th center Farmers Almanacs and the more modern version seems to have come from an article written in the s that misinterpreted the Farmers Almanac definition.
The last Blue Moon in a month with 30 days was on June 30, and the next one will be on September 30, , Paranjpaye said. There were two Blue Moons in The first one was on January 31 and the second Blue Moon followed on March T V Venkateswaran, scientist with Vigyan Prasar, the communication wing of the Department of Science and Technology, and an astronomy enthusiast, said this phenomenon is largely restricted to the Gregorian calendar which is being used worldwide.
The phrase 'Once in a Blue Moon', denoting something which does not happen very often, came from this phenomenon, Venkateswaran added. Rajinikanth hospitalised in Hyderabad after BP fluctuations, condition stable. Sonu Nigam shares throwback video singing Mohammed Rafi's song the day he got first award.
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