This Friday August 31, 2012 the moon will be in Pisces and according to many astrologer it will be a sensitive, reflective Full Moon, thanks to the heavy water energy.
I did not have the qi to write a blog about the full moon. We are still in surreal mode here after our dear Zevo's passing. So i took the liberty of posting a few links below with information on what a Blue Moon is.
This past month i have been working on a few new lines of art to wear. There at least thirty new pieces to be photographed and listed on the
Planet Calamari Etsy Shop. We have decided to wait until after the Blue Moon to take on this project.
To celebrate this Full Blue Moon and the start of a new beginning, Zevo's new life as a spirit-poose and the end of a long hot summer,
The Planet Calamari Etsy Shop is having a Once in a Blue Moon Sale. Take 20% off all art to wear...even the marked down pieces by using the code
BLUEMOON when checking out.
May this Labor Day weekend of the Blue Moon bring you and your loved ones peace, magic and a new beginning.
jeanie marie
What is a Blue Moon?
There are in fact two definitions for a blue moon. According to the
more recent definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a
calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons
must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second
will fall within the same month (the average span between two moons is
29.5 days). The full Moon on Aug. 31, 2012, will be this type of blue
moon; it will be the second full moon in one month.
The Other Kind of Blue Moon
The older definition, which is recorded in early issues of the
Maine Farmer's Almanac, states that the blue moon is the third full moon in a season that has four full moons. Why would one
want to identify the third full moon in a season of four full moons? The answer is complex, and has to do with the
Christian ecclesiastical calendar.
Some years have an extra full moon—13 instead of 12. Since the
identity of the moons was important in the ecclesiastical calendar (the
Paschal Moon, for example, used to be crucial for determining the date
of
Easter), a
year with a 13th moon skewed the calendar, since there were names for
only 12 moons. By identifying the extra, 13th moon as a blue moon, the
ecclesiastical calendar was able to stay on track.
For more background information on the controversy over the two definitions of blue moon,
see the
Sky and Telescope article,
"What's a Blue Moon?"
In it they explain how the two different definitions of a blue moon
came about—including their own role in introducing the second, modern
definition"
"Blue moons exist due to our calendar months being imperfectly synched
to the lunar months. It takes 29.5 days for the moon to orbit Earth,
during which sky watchers observe all of its phases. All calendar
months, aside from February, have 30 or 31 days, resulting in the
occasional two full moons within a single month.
While blue moons
are rare, they can be predicted to take place every three years or so,
with the next one scheduled to take place in July 2015."
Once in a Blue Moon
"Blue moon" appears to have been a colloquial expression long before it developed its calendrical senses. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, the first reference to a blue moon comes from a proverb recorded in 1528:
If they say the moon is blue,
We must believe that it is true.
Saying the moon was blue was equivalent to saying the moon was made
of green (or cream) cheese; it indicated an obvious absurdity. In the
19th century, the phrase
until a blue moon developed, meaning "never." The phrase,
once in a blue moon
today has come to mean "every now and then" or "rarely"—whether it
gained that meaning through association with the lunar event remains
uncertain.
