What is a blue moon?

Posted in: Blue Moon by Debra on August 16, 2008

Maybe the question should be what a blue moon is to you and me since there seems to be so many definitions of it:

a rare event
an extra full moon that occurs in a season (if a season had four full moons, the third would be the blue moon)
when the moon, not necessarily full, appears bluish
the second of two full moons to occur in the same calendar month (an error from a mistake in an article in the Sky & Telescope magazine, March 1946)

For my website and my way of thinking, I’m going to go with that whenever I get published, IT’S A BLUE MOON.

While researching a “blue moon”, I came upon: Black, Wet, Full, New, Half, Rising Crescent, Gibbous, Harvest, Lunar, Blood (aka Hunter’s) and Fairy Moons.

What I was starting to get was a headache and then I started to wonder what a “Migraine Moon” would be? Here are “my” many definitions for the term:

building a new BLOG/Website combo
entering a writer’s contest
still recuperating from SCBWI Conferene
only nine hours sleep in the last two days

I’m going to do the same thing here. For my website, when I am having a difficult time or struggling, I will refer to it as a MIGRAINE MOON.

For all other times, either the moon is waxing, waning or full. Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to see the little cresent with the reflection behind it.

Debra Davis Hinkle

Migraine Moon Day

p.s. I will do most of my posting on the main BLOG. I probably will only post here when I have something personal to say!