Rajab is one of the four sacred months in which warfare and fighting are forbidden.Īs usual, the wearing of suitably celebratory celestial attire is encouraged in honor of the full Moon. This full Moon is the middle of the first month of the Chinese calendar, the first Adar in the Hebrew calendar, and Rajab in the Islamic calendar. In most lunar and lunisolar calendars, the months change with the new Moon and full Moons fall in the middle of the lunar month. In Sri Lanka, this full Moon is called Navam Poya and celebrations also include a procession of approximately 5,000 people and many elephants, called Gangaramaya Navam. Some authors refer to this day as the Buddhist All Saints Day. In Thailand, the Pāli term Māgha-pūraṇamī is also used for the celebration. On the day, Buddhists celebrate the creation of an ideal and exemplary community, which is why it is sometimes called Saṅgha Day, Saṅgha referring to the Buddhist community. It celebrates a gathering of the Buddha with 1,250 of his first disciples, which, according to tradition, preceded the custom of periodic recitation of discipline by monks. Māgha Pūjā is celebrated on the full Moon day of the third lunar month in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Sri Lanka and on the full Moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. For Hindus, Magha is a month for austerity, performing acts of charity, and ritual bathing in a sacred river.įor Buddhists, this full Moon corresponds with Māgha Pūjā, the second-most important festival of the year. In the Hindu and Buddhist calendars, Magha is the month when the full Moon is in the lunar mansion that contains the star we call Regulus. In the Purnimanta tradition that ends the months on the full Moon day, this full Moon (Purnima) is Magha Purnima, the last day of the month of Magha. This is the traditional end of the Chinese New Year celebrations and is held on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese Calendar. 15, 2022, will be the Chinese Lantern Festival. Since there are two months of Adar in the Hebrew calendar this year, the major holiday of Purim will be celebrated next month, and this full Moon corresponds with Purim Katan or "Little Purim." Another European name is the Candles Moon, tied to Candlemas on Feb. area airports (DCA and IAD) from 1991 to 2020 show January and February nearly tied as the snowiest months of the year (with February 1/10 inch ahead).Īccording to some sources, the Wolf Moon is an old European name for this full Moon. NOAA monthly averages for the Washington, D.C. Bad weather and heavy snowstorms made hunting difficult, so this Moon was also called the Hunger Moon. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in February, the tribes of what is now the northeastern United States called this the Snow Moon or the Storm Moon because of the heavy snows that fall in this season. The Maine Farmers' Almanac began publishing Native American names for full Moons in the 1930s and these names have become widely known and used. The bright star appearing near the full Moon will be Regulus. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from about midnight Tuesday morning to about midnight Thursday night. This will be on Thursday morning from China Standard Time eastward to the International Date Line. 16, 2022, appearing opposite the Sun in Earth-based longitude at 11:57 a.m. The next full Moon will be midday on Wednesday, Feb. The Next Full Moon is the Snow, Storm, or Hunger Moon the Wolf or Candles Moon the Full Moon corresponding to Purim Katan and the Chinese Lantern Festival Magha Purnima and Navam Poya.
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