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Buck Moon |
.jpg) Buck Moon, Quebec, Canada |
.jpg) Buck & July Full Moon |
.jpg) Buck Moon, Seattle, July 2016 |
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Native Americans call July's Full Moon "Buck Moon"— since the buck's antlers are fully grown. In Joseph Bruchac's "13 Moons on a Turtle's Back", Pomo call 7th Moon— "Moon When Acorns Appear". Algonquin call it Raspberry Moon, Abenaki call it Thunder Moon, and Chinese call it Hungry Ghost Moon. July's Buck Moon orbits closer to Earth than other full Moons this year, making it the brightest supermoon of 2022. July 13 is a special day for me as it was on this day in 1798 when Wordsworth wrote "Tintern Abbey"— I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, the living air, and the blue sky... that all which we behold is full of blessings... let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk. — Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 7-13-2022 |
.jpg) Buck Moon Farmer's Almanac
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