Full Moon,
Hunter's Moon, Full Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon
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Rose 2014-1007 Tuesday Oct 7, 2014
Tuesday,
October 7, 2014, is a day that brings many celestial events this evening and into the morning light of Wednesday, October 8, 2014.
The Full
Moon arrives around sunset and stays in the night sky until around sunrise. The "icing on the cake" is a spectacular celestial show of a Full Moon turning into a Full Lunar Eclipse, often called a Full Blood Moon.
The Full Moon turns to a Pumpkin Orange on this October Night.
Names of
October’s Full Moon:
According to
this website, here are the various name:
Hunter’s
Moon: So called by the Algonquians and Colonial Americans
Harvest
Moon: So called by the Cherokees, the Celts, and the English.
Blackberry
Moon: So called by the Choctaw.
Blood Moon:
So called by Medieval English, Wiccan, and Neo-Pagan
http://www.celticmythmoon.com/moon.html
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac:
“This is the month when the leaves are falling and the game is fattened. Now is the time for hunting and laying in a store of provisions for the long winter ahead. October's Moon is also known as the Travel Moon and the Dying Moon.”
For a complete listing of the full moon names, see:
http://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-names Legends and Lore
Here are
some links to the legends, lore, and science of this incredible and unusual day
and evening of the October 2014 Full Moon.
The year
2014 brings two total lunar eclipses.
The first
was April 15, 2014. http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-events/2014/02/watch-a-total-lunar-eclipse-april-15
Full Moon,
Total Lunar Eclipse April 2014
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_lunar_eclipse_-_full_eclipse_(blood_moon)_April_2014.jpg
Tonight, the
evening of Tuesday, October 7th, and in the early morning of
Wednesday, October 8th, many Earthlings will be able to see a Full
Moon colored to a dusty red by a Full Lunar Eclipse.
The timing
allows the Earth’s sunsets and sunrises to shade the moon in reddish tints, called
a Blood Moon, as it travels in the Earth’s shadow.
You can look
at the lunar eclipse directly with eyesight, or enhanced with a telescope or
binoculars.
From USA Today:
Officially, the total eclipse
will start at 6:25 a.m. ET (5:25 a.m. CT, 4:25 a.m. MT and 3:25 a.m. PT) and
continue until 7:24 a.m. ET (4:24 a.m. PT).
If you're in the central or
western parts of the USA, you'll see the total eclipse high in a dark sky well
before sunrise, according to Sky and Telescope.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/06/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-wednesday/16810903/
October 8th is Eric the Red’s Remembrance Day
This is
the day to remember and honor Eric the Red, who sailed with his Vikings to
Greenland, and the man who fathered Leif Ericson, who sailed to Vineland, the
land now known as North America. It’s
fitting in a way, to have a Blood Red Moon appear on Eric the Red’s Day.
From Shirley MacLaine and Sandra Helton’s Celestial Compass
“Another
amazing Blood Moon appears at sunrise in many areas on October 8 that seems to
be a cosmic bridge between other worlds and this as darkness fades with the
rising Sun…(A) Triad that holds global attention and has stirred everyone to
ponder and discuss the meaning of it all.”
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