Full Moon Celebration

Please join Alchemy's Family, Stewards & Friends as we Celebrate the Full Moon.

August’s full Moon was traditionally called the Sturgeon Moon because the giant sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this part of summer.

Alternative August Moon Names

•Flying Up Moon is a Cree term describing the time when young birds are finally ready to take the leap and learn to fly.

•Corn Moon (Algonquin, Ojibwe)

•Harvest Moon (Dakota)

•Ricing Moon (Anishinaabe) signify that this is the time to gather maturing crops.

•Along the same vein, the Assiniboine people named this period Black Cherries Moon, referring to when chokecherries become ripe.

•The Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest traditionally called this time of the season the Mountain Shadows Moon.