Native American Full Moons
The native Americans were a very poetic people, intelligent and creative, and the gave the Moon many names. To them, each Full Moon of the year had a particular name and a story to go with it. The Indians named the various Moons long before the settlers came to the New World.
January, they believed, brought the Wolf Moon, describing the hungry wolf packs that roamed about in the dead of winter. They were greatly feared.
February's Full Moon was called the Snow Moon, because of the blizzards that often struck during this period.
March's Full Moon was given a strange name -- the Worm Moon, because with the spring thaw the earthworms would come to the soil surface.
April's Full Moon had several interesting names -- Pink Moon for the flowers (mostly pink) that covered the land at this time, Fish Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon and Shad Moon.
An important Full Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, came in May -- but another name, Flower Moon described the burst of flowers now apparent.
June's Full Moon was called the Strawberry Moon, describing the time when the strawberries were fruiting over most of the land and might be gathered and enjoyed.
The Thunder Moon describes July's fierce storms which often come up suddenly, apparently out of nowhere.
August's Full Moon has three descriptive names: the Green Corn Moon, the Sturgeon Moon (named for the fish), and the Red Moon (named for the heat and haze of the month).
September brings the Harvest Moon.
October's Full Moon is also very descriptive -- the Hunter's Moon. Then, as now, elk, deer and bear were hunted.
November brought the Beaver Moon, named for the trapping that was done before winter hit in earnest and the rivers were frozen over.
December's Full Moon was aptly named -- the Cold Moon.
(Source: Sleeping with a Sunflower by Louise Riotte)