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Full Moon: names and meanings
Over time, different cultures have given names to full moons across the lunar calendar. Many of the Moon’s nicknames have come to us from Native American culture because for their way of life, the cycles of the lunar phases were just as important a method of timekeeping as the longer solar cycle of the year (from which the modern Gregorian calendar is derived).
The number of Moon names differs slightly from tribe to tribe, but many assign either 12 or 13 full moons to the year.
These names were then adopted by the Colonial Americans and have entered popular culture; below you can see a few alternatives alongside the most popular names for each month's full moon.
January: Wolf Moon
January's full moon is named after the howling of hungry wolves lamenting the scarcity of food in midwinter.
Other names for this month's full moon include old moon and ice moon.
February: Snow Moon
February’s typically cold, snowy weather in North America earned its full moon the name snow moon. Storm moon and hunger moon are other common names.