Greetings everyone! We appreciate you're joining in with us as we embrace the beginning of the month of the Strawberry Moon! What a special time of the earthly calendar year this truly is, especially if you enjoy all the wonderful food and drinks that are soon to come of the delicious strawberry like we do.

 

For those of you who are joining with us for the first time, we welcome you first off, and then we'd like to take a quick moment to explain to you the sacredness of why we've come together in such celebration and reverence to Grandmother Moon.

 

You see, every phase of the moon is sacred to us, because we know that eachphase of her monthly cycle is actually the Mother Goddess in a certain stage of her life, and in them she is hoping to teach each of us, especially we females what we call sacred wisdom teachings meaning lessons that each of you can apply in your life in a good medicine way and outcome of a better contentment in life. Each month their is a new and different moon, and each phase of each months moon brings with it an energy which you can and should use in your daily lives as well as in your spells and rituals.

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The name of October’s moon is the Hunters Moon, which is in clear reference to the importance of the fall hunting season to the Algonquian tribes. Larger animals were hunted with bow and arrow, while smaller animals might be caught in snares and traps. Depending on the date of the autumnal equinox, the October full moon might also be the Harvest Moon.

 

Other Native American names for October reflect cooler temperatures and leaf shedding: for the Abenaki, it was “leaf falling moon;” for the Cheyenne; “water begins to freeze on edge of streams moon;” for the Cree, “moon the birds fly south;” for the Lakota, “moon when the wind shakes off leaves;” for the Potawatomi, “moon the first frost;” for the Shawnee, “wilted moon.” Fall migratory activity of the Wishram is reflected in the name “travel in canoes moon.”