Once In A Blue Moon…
Posted by VickyC on December 20th, 2009
What does "Once in a Blue Moon" mean?!
There are so many “moon” related phrases… “Over the moon”, “Shoot for the moon”… But I’m going to look at the phrase “Once in a blue moon”.
What does it mean? Where does it come from???
So the moon has 12 phases from when it goes from being a nothing moon to a full moon.. they occur monthly – ish. Each “season” consists of 3 full moons, So in a “normal” year there are 4 seasons and should be 12 phases – and 12 full moons. Sometimes, the moon doesn’t roll in it’s normal pattern and 13 phases/full moons occur in a year – this extra 13th moon is called…….. a “BLUE MOON”
In the olden days, the 12 full moons were given names.. You’ve heard of the Harvest Moon…
Anyway, so when a season had 4 moons instead of 3, the “extra” moon was called the blue moon – basically, the Blue Moon would not necessarily be the 13th moon. I think I may have said that already, but in a more confusing way…
So an interesting fun fact is that this year will have a Blue Moon! And it’s going to be on December 31… New Years Eve!
So this New Years Eve, be sure to drink to the new year and also to the amazingness of nature & the super extra awesomeness of this 13th full moon!!
Tags: 2009, Calendar, December 31, Full Moon, Lunar, Moon, Nature, New Moon, New Years Eve, Phase, Phases, Season
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