#fuul moon

This is one of my favorite playlists. I use it to set the mood for moon rituals or just cleansing nights. I hope some of you can enjoy it! 

Now we had a super moon January 31’s and that’s a really cool and powerful thing but does anyone else think it’s cool that there is no full moon for the entire month of February?

It’s like a moonless month and the moon gets its first quarter February 23rd so the moon has like a complete “return” in March.

Lady Moon, by Richard Monckton Milnes

"Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?

       "Over the sea."

"Lady Moon, Lady Moon whom are you loving?"

      "All that love me."

"Are you not tired rolling and never

       Resting to sleep?

Why look so pale and so sad, as for ever

       Wishing to weep?"

"Ask me not this, little child, if you love me;

      You are too bold.

I must obey my dear Father above me,

      And do as I'm told."

"Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?

       "Over the sea."

"Lady Moon, Lady Moon whom are you loving?"

According to folklore, this week's full Moon is the Hunter's Moon. It gets its name from Native American hunters who once tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead.

The view gets even better tonight as the Moon approaches Jupiter for a close encounter. On Oct. 12th and 13th it will be possible to hide the lunar disk and the bright planet together behind the palm of your outstretched hand. The conjunction is visible throughout the night; just look for the Moon and you will find Jupiter not far away. (SpaceWeather)

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“Lunar Phases” on the Astronomy Cast

Though the motions of the moon may seem complicated, there are really just two things going on. First, the Earth is rotating on its axis once every 24 hours. Second, the moon is revolving in its orbit around the Earth once every 29.5 days.

The rotation of the Earth causes the moon (along with the sun, planets, and most of the stars) to appear to rise and set every day. Almost everything in the sky moves in grand arcs from the eastern horizon to the western horizon, taking roughly 12 hours to do so. The only exceptions are stars close to the celestial poles, which circle the poles without ever setting.

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The revolution of the moon is much slower, and is somewhat masked by the daily rotation of the Earth. The main effect is that the moon seems to move relative to the background stars by about 12.2 degrees every 24 hours. Tonight the moon appears just to the right (west) of the bright planet Jupiter; by tomorrow night it will have moved so that it appears just to the left (east) of Jupiter.

A secondary result of the moon's motion is that it rises about 50 minutes later each night. Last night, when the moon was full, it rose in the east just about the same time the sun was setting in the west ?the only night in the month when this happens. For example, last night in New York City, the sun set at 6:22 p.m., and the moon rose at 5:52 p.m. Tonight the sun sets at 6:21 and the moon also rises at 6:21. Tomorrow night the sun sets at 6:19 and the moon rises at 6:52.

The pattern is clear: We're just past fall equinox, and as the sun sets slightly earlier each night, the moon is moving eastward through the stars, so it is rising about half an hour later each night. At other times in the month, it rises more than 50 minutes later.

Source Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

In a week's time, the sun will set at 6:10, but the moon won't rise until midnight, after most people have gone to bed. People will look at the evening sky and ask, "Where's the moon?"

The trick for seeing the moon next week is to look for it not in the evening, but first thing in the morning. It will be a waning crescent (because it has moved a quarter of the way around the Earth) and it will be high in the southern sky.

This may be puzzling to anyone who doesn't understand the two things affecting the apparent motions of the moon: the rotation of the Earth and the revolution of the moon. (Space.com)

The sky map of the moon here shows its position in the evening sky. .