There’s a Harvest Moon tonight.<\/p>\n
It’s supposed to be a clear night here in Pittsburgh, so I’m looking forward to seeing it.<\/p>\n
In honor of tonight’s full moon, I decided to combine information about Full Moons with a listing of my top picks on Werewolf movies.<\/p>\n
Did you know there are different names for the full moon each month?<\/p>\n
Well, I didn’t. I’ve heard of the Harvest Moon, Hunters Moon, Blue Moon, and Blood Moon, but I never knew there were distinct names for each month’s full moon.<\/p>\n
Check them out:<\/p>\n
January – Wolf Moon<\/strong> (also a.k.a Ice Moon): primarily named for the howling of hungry wolves lamenting over the scarcity of food in winter.<\/p>\n February – Snow Moon<\/strong>: reminiscent of the typically cold and snowy weather in this month.<\/p>\n March – Worm Moon<\/strong>: This is the name Native American’s gave the last full moon of winter, due to the worm trails they’d see in the newly thawed ground.<\/p>\n April – Pink Moon<\/strong> (also a.k.a Fish Moon): named for early blooming wild flowers. Other cultures call it the Fish Moon.<\/p>\n May – Flower Moon<\/strong> (also a.k.a Milk Moon, Hare Moon): aptly named for the abundant flowers in bloom.<\/p>\n June – Strawberry Moon<\/strong> (also a.k.a Rose Moon): named for the strawberry harvesting that happens this month in North American. Europeans call this the Rose Moon.<\/p>\n July – Buck Moon<\/strong>: Native Americans were the naming source of this moon, relating it male deer, that shed their antlers, and regrow them in July.<\/p>\n August – Red Moon<\/strong> (also a.k.a Sturgeon Moon): Named for the reddish hue it acquires due to summer haze. Fishing tribes in North America called this the Sturgeon Moon due to the abundance of sturgeon fish they found in August.<\/p>\n September – Harvest Moon<\/strong>: This moon rises early and appears very bright. Its name is derived from farmers who were able to work longer in the fields during nights of this full moon. This moon appears near to the autumnal equinox.<\/p>\n October – Hunter’s Moon<\/strong>: Typically bright like September’s moon, this moon was named by hunters who were able to spot and hunt deer more readily in October.<\/p>\n November – Frost Moon<\/strong>: Aptly named for the onset of winter.<\/p>\n December – Cold Moon<\/strong>: Another appropriate name, indicating weather conditions in winter.<\/p>\n There are also the:<\/p>\n Blue Moon<\/strong> – A 2nd full moon occurring in one month is called a Blue Moon. This occurs every 2.5 years.<\/p>\n Blood Moon<\/strong> – When the moon is in full lunar eclipse it appears reddish, like the August Red Moon.<\/p>\n Now let’s talk Werewolf Movies!<\/p>\n I haven’t watch a ton of werewolf movies, but I’ve watched a few over the years that I’ve liked enough to watch them over and over again. And as I was making this list, I found that most of my favorites were released in the 1980s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n Interesting.<\/p>\n Here’s my list of the coolest Werewolf movies I’ve seen.<\/p>\n My all-time favorite of the above: Dog Soldiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Have you seen any of these?<\/p>\n If so, which one\/ones did you like best?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a Harvest Moon tonight.<\/p>\n It’s supposed to be a clear night her in Pittsburgh, so I’m looking forward to seeing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[485,553,562,565,571,564,560,552,574,554,555,368,559,406,573,557,561,563,572,566,567,568,569,556,570,558],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writers-room-insights-and-tips-on-screenwriting","tag-american-werewolf-in-london-movie","tag-bluew-moon","tag-buck-moon","tag-cold-moon","tag-dog-soldiers-movie","tag-drost-moon","tag-flower-moon-hare-moon-milk-moon","tag-full-moons-and-werewolves","tag-ginger-snaps-movie","tag-harvest-moon","tag-hunters-moon","tag-kathy-patterson-screenwriter","tag-pink-moon","tag-scriptchic-kathy-patterson","tag-silver-bullet-movie","tag-snow-moon","tag-strawberry-moon-rose-moon","tag-sturgeon-moon","tag-teen-wolf-movie","tag-the-howling-movi","tag-the-wolfman-movie","tag-underworld-movie","tag-van-helsing-movie","tag-wolf-moon","tag-wolfen-movie","tag-worm-moon","has-thumb"],"yoast_head":"\n\n