The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being

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The May full moon is known as the Flower Moon. As spring blossoms more fully in May, now is a good time to look at tending to your own life, including relationships, your career and your self care. Take action to make sure the seeds you planted continue to grow and thrive.

One of our favorite Celtic full moon names is Flower Moon, which is May’s full moon. It is a time to tend to your own life and ensure that the seeds you’ve planted continue to grow. As you can see from the Celtic full moon names above, they often named them after events, such as harvest season. This is typical of many ancient societies as they often had big celebrations during these periods. Oswald creates dynamic shifts of scale in other ways too, moving between linguistic registers, from the close domestic familiarity of the candle and its faint whisper, to the exotic names of faraway stars, those stars that rise “and give themselves airs”: This is more than a gentle meander around the Dorset countryside though. Parr uses nature as a crutch to get him through the tough moments in his life. The book is split into twelve chapters each with a title of a moon, with wonderful names such as The Moon of Ice, The Moon of Dispute, The Bright Moon and it begins with the Quiet Moon. Marking the end of the growing season, ancient Celts referred to the October full moon as the Harvest Moon, Seed Fall Moon, or Hunter's Moon. Aligning with the celebration of Samhain, October is a good time to honor loved ones who have passed on. It is also a good time to do spiritual and physical house cleaning, getting rid of what doesn't serve you in the coming year.These practices underline the significant role that the moon and stars played in Celtic culture, both practically and symbolically. a way of forcing a poem open to what lies bodily beyond it. Because the eye is an instrument tuned to surfaces, but the ear tells you about volume, depth, content – like tapping a large iron shape to find if it’s full or not. The ear hears into, not just what surrounds it. And the whole challenge of poetry is to keep language open, so that what we don’t know yet can pass through it.

The April full moon is the Growing Moon or Pink Moon, representing the growth of love and the harvest season. Another one of our favorite Celtic full moon names is Harvest moon. It is one of the names of the October full moon.The December full moon is known as the Cold Moon, Singing Moon or Wolf Moon by ancient Celts. It is a time to celebrate Yule or the Winter Solstice and the return of longer days. Spend time with family and friends and celebrate the beginning of winter. The ancient Celts lived by and worshipped the moon. While modern, digital life is often at odds with nature – rubbing against it rather than working in harmony with it – is there something to be said for embracing this ancient way of being and reconnecting to the moon’s natural calendar?* The "far side" of the Moon looks very different than the near side (see the first photo in this article). Notice how few dark areas the far side has. This image is based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University Can you provide more information about the connection between the Celtic people and celestial bodies like stars?

Finally, December’s Celtic full moon names are the Cold Moon, Singing Moon, and Wolf Moon. It’s a time to celebrate the Winter Solstice, spend time with family, and reflect on the beginning of winter. Wordsworth, remembering his own listening. In these lines from ‘There Was a Boy’, which Wordsworth returned to and recast in The Prelude, the boy of Winander is listening. Suspended in the silence, he hears a voice. Not hears, but receives. It is the voice not of owls, but of mountain-torrents. And he receives this sound, this voice, not in his ears, but in his heart. Not in his heart, but far into his heart. Those short words far and into open up great distances: a voice travelling over the hills, across the valleys. Then the surprise intimacy of heart. At once far off and near. The listening heart. The heart transformed, expanded, opened up by listening. By the voice of mountain waters. A voice which disembodies. Which opens up great distances, transforms the heart’s dimensions. The Celtic Full Moon Names refer to specific names and meanings associated with the full moon in the Celtic tradition, which vary across different Celtic regions and tribes.Each chapter title is a traditional Celtic full moon name like the Quiet Moon for January and the Harvest Moon for October. The author delves deep into the etymological origins of the lunar months introducing the reader to the Coligny calendar- the oldest lunisolar calendar made in Roman Gaul perhaps in the second century CE. Physically, the Coligny is a fragmented bronze plaque written in Latin inscriptional capitals and numerals, but the terms are in the Gaulish language. There are twelve lunar months and an intercalary month is inserted before every 2.5 years- titled the Blue Moon in this book’s epilogue. The July full moon was known to the ancient Celts as the Claiming Moon or Horse Moon. Claiming Moon is likely derived from some sort of early legal system, similar to August’s Dispute Moon. July is traditionally the warmest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and as such is a good time to relax, meditate and reflect on your life. It is also a good time to think about how you can bring more positive things into your life. Halloween is an example of a festival occurring around this pivotal time, reflecting the interconnectedness between the Celtic people’s agricultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and communal celebrations. For example, January’s full moon is called the Quiet Moon, Wolf Moon, or Cold Moon, while September’s full moon is named the Singing Moon, Harvest Moon, or Wine Moon. Each month’s full moon has names corresponding to particular themes, rituals, or natural events significant to that time of the year.