The third Super moon of 2019, the last Super moon of a trifecta, rose above the tree line last night. The Native American names are of course fitting for the season. January Super Wolf Moon was a foreboding blood moon on a cold winter night. February Super Snow Moon came with heavy snows and blizzards across the midwest. And March's last Super Worm Moon accompanied the spring equinox, the first day of spring, melting snows, warm sunshine, and so many red-breasted robins seeking earthworms in the valley that I've hardly been able to drive down the road without fear of hitting a wild flier. This moon has also been called a Lenten Moon. If the moon had delayed a day, it would have been a Pascal Moon preceding Easter on my birthday, the first full moon after the 21st of March and Spring Equinox. Instead the Pascal Moon is postponed a month, but last night's moon was a Purim Moon. Purim began at sundown.
May this moon remind us to pose the question too ourselves, "Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom (been chosen) for such a time as this?"
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| Moonrise |
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| Full Worm Moon at Spring Equinox |
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