The full moon on October 1st has several names: “Hunter’s Moon," “Blood Moon” or “Sanguine Moon.” The name arises from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, to provide food for winter. Farmers worked late into the evening with this moonlight to gather their crops.
In India, the harvest festival of Sharad Purnima marks the end of the monsoon season, They celebrate on the full moon day of the lunar month of Ashvin (September-October). This “Kaumudi” celebration means “moonlight."
October starts with the Harvest Moon tonight and a second Blue Moon on Halloween, October 31st. This rare October full moon falls closest to the Equinox.
Silhouette Tease
Wolf runs
from the prairie
jounces into the sky
unable to
snatch the rabbit
stuck on lunar highlands
Once the moon glowed
clean as bone
until sun flung
rabbit there
for resisting
the bidding
to dash him
faster
round
the earth
Now sun
lures wolf
hoodwinks him
with light beams
to reveal the rabbit
in the moon
in the moon
Sun laughs
as wolf howls
at his prey
Make three wishes tonight on the Harvest moon.
Feel three Gratitudes.
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