27 March 2021
You may have heard that tomorrow’s full moon at 2:50pm EDT (28 March 2021) is called the Worm Moon after the earthworm casts that appear as the ground thaws.
Did you know it’s also called the Crow Moon?
The more northern tribes of the northeastern United States knew this as the Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter.
NASA: The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon Crow Moon
Northern tribes didn’t have worms where they lived because the Ice Age wiped them out. Instead they noticed the change in crow behavior.
Nowadays we have earthworms that were accidentally imported from Eurasia so the Worm Moon makes sense to us.
In Pittsburgh the Crow Moon happens in December. 😉
Read more at The Next Full Moon is a Supermoon Crow Moon.
(photo from Wikimedia Commons and by Kate St. John)
Thanks for the link to the NASA article. It reminded me of the Holi festival we saw in Papua New Guinea. Young people running and being sprayed with colored water. They were all wearing white shirts so the result was very colorful.