Named Full Moons
The Full Moon has been given specific names by different cultures to differentiate one form the other, each month. We have collected various names here, and the cultures that used each one.
See Dates of Full Moons for each year at Astrology Sky Archive
Note that the Zodiac Sign of a Full Moon will always be 180 degrees, directly opposite, the sign of the Sun.
Algonquin/ English/ neo-Pagan Other
colonial medieval
Jan Old Wolf Ice Moon After Yule
Feb Hunger Storm Snow Opening Buds Moon
Mar Crust Chaste Death Sap; Crow; Lenten, Maple Sugar, Worm
Apr Pink Seed Awakening Grass; Egg; Frog, Planter's
May Flower Hare Grass Planting; Milk; Budding
Jun Rose Dyan Planting Strawberry; Flower
Jul Buck Mead Rose Hay; Thunder; Blood
Aug Sturgeon Corn Lightening Grain; Dog Days; Green Corn
Sep Harvest Barley Harvest Fruit
Oct Hunter's Blood Blood Moon of Falling Leaves
Nov Beaver Snow Tree Frosty
Dec Cold Oak Long Night Moon Before Yule
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Others Lunar Names
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