These from the old Farmer's Almanac. I thought these very interesting. Tomorrow night is full moon (November 27). Called the "Full Beaver Moon". Alternate names from Native American tribes are "Deer Rutting Moon", "Digging/Scratching Moon", Freezing Moon", "Frost Moon", and "Whitefish Moon". All of these names make perfect sense to me.

Jack

That’s really cool. All make good sense to me too.

I follow the moon phases and usually try to get a good picture of each month’s full moon. Like you said, each month can have a few different names for the same full moon. But I usually go by the Farmer’s Almanac names.

I like descriptions that have meaning with the event. I agree , Jack. Thanks for sharing.

I understand most of those but not the "digging and scratching".........but then I bathe regularly.


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I assumed that digging and scratching also referred to the deer rut. Maybe it’s something else.

I think it is a grizzly scratching his back on a tree , and digging up squirrels ....

Sharon is probably right. The "digging/scratching" moon was from the Tlingits, so they'd be keyed into the brown bears.

I guessed . It is what I think when I see a strong brawny guy scratching his back against a door frame. " The grizzly bear thing ," is what I call it .

The name here reminded me of that .

Being an Irishman from NE Ont I call the November moon the "putting on the long johns moon".