• New Moon - The new moon or dark moon as it is often called is the time when the moon does not appear in the sky just before it begins its waxing phase. This energy is best used for new beginnings, setting goals or planting new ideas. It is also ideal for cleansing or planning. The dark moon is an ideal time to examine hidden parts of our psyches.
• Waxing Moon (when the Moon gets bigger in the sky, a narrow crescent growing from right to left) - Following the new moon for a period of approximately 14 days, the moon is considered to be a waxing moon. This energy is best used for constructive or building magick to fuel projects or enhance things we wish to grow be they magickal or mundane.
• Full Moon (when the moon appears as a complete circle in the sky) - At its peak, the moon is full. While it reaches this peak at a specific point in time, the energy from this phase is thought to extend three days before and three days after it’s zenith. Full moons are excellent time to manifest goals and bring things to fruition. Workings are often done for protection, healing, introspection, and self-improvement.
• Waning Moon (when the Full Moon is decreasing in size, moving back towards the New Moon, gradually changing to a decreasing crescent from right to left) - The approximately 14 days from full moon to dark moon are known as the waning moon. This energy best serves to rid oneself of unwanted things, banishing, and reversing or minimizing effects and bringing about calming influences.
• A blue moon occurs when there is an extra full moon occurring in a season when there are normally three full moons. If a season had four full moons, then the third full moon was named a blue moon. Modernly it has come to mean a second full moon within a calendar month. Either way is does not happen often and so has come to be used as a term to refer to a rare or uncommon event. Historically the blue moon was considered unlucky as it could disrupt church calculations for Lent and Easter. In love songs is often a symbol of sadness and loneliness. The energy from this event is best used to bring attention to unusual or rare influences.

• When the moon's horns point up, the weather will be dry.
• When the Moon's horns point down, rain spills forth.
• Blunt horns on a Crescent Moon presage a long spell of fair weather.
• Sharp horns on the Sickle Moon indicate strong winds.
• Pale Moon doth rain, Red Moon doth blow; White Moon doth neither, Rain nor snow.
• A dark mist over the Moon is a promise of rain.
• A single ring around the moon that quickly vanishes heralds fine weather.
• Many rings around the Moon signal a series of severe blasts.
• A Red Moon is a sure sign of high winds.
• Clear Moon, frost soon.
• Should the Moon wear a halo of red, a tempest is nigh.
• The heaviest rains fall following the New and the Full Moons.
• The Full Moon eats the clouds away.
• A New Moon and a windy night, Sweep the cobwebs out of sight.
• When the New Moon holds the Old Moon in its arms, (ring around the New
• Moon) disasters occur at sea.
• It is unlucky to point at the moon at any time. One should always bow to the moon, as a sign of respect.
• Upon first sight of a new moon, a silver coin should be turned over in the purse/pocket, for silver is the metal of the moon.
• The best time for picking flowers and herbs, and for felling trees for fuel and timber is when the moon is waning.
• Trees pruned during a waxing moon will bear good fruit.
• Wood cut at the New Moon is hard to split, while wood cut during a Full Moon is easier.
• The terms 'moon-struck' and 'moon-touched' originally meant that the person was chosen by the Goddess, thus making them blessed.

• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon or the Storm Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult. Some traditions also refer to this as the Chaste Moon.
• Full Worm Moon - March As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.
• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon. It is also known as the Hare Moon.
• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
• The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon or the Mead Moon.
• Full Sturgeon Moon - August The fishing tribes are given credit or the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
• Full Corn Moon - September This full moon's name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon.
• Full Harvest Moon - October This is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this moon. Usually the full moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering. At times the moon appears red/gold in the autumn sky and as such is known as the Hunter’s Moon or Blood Moon
• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.
• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. It is also known as the Cold Moon. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.