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February's Full Moon is called the Snow, Wolf or Hunger Moon. The Full Moon also marks an astronomical event, the first of the year's four Cross-Quarter Days (Groundhog Day, Mayday, Lammas,  and Halloween).

The Full Moon for March is traditionally called the Sap, Lenten, Crow or Worm Moon. But I like the Awakening Moon, which is what the Plains Indians referred to it.

 

First taxes, then Leap Seconds, now this. A Leap Day. We got an extra second tacked onto our clocks at the end of 2007, and an extra day added to February 2008, just to find out that we never did get the calendar year just right (we've been at it for 5,000 years), and the year is still 26 seconds too long anyway.

Check out Yachats Skywatch to find out how the "Year is Measured" and where Leap year came from.

In Colonial times the Full Moon of November was refered to as the "Frosty or Snow Moon". The Hopi Indians knew it as the Initiate Moon, the Algonquin called it the Beaver Moon, and the Lakota Sioux called it the Moon of the Falling Leaves. Check out "Yachats Sky Watch" for the latest on the Leonid Meteor Shower occuring in November. In 1966 it appeared as the "greatest meteor display in recorded history."