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 Full Moon in August is called Sturgeon Moon because of the great number of this huge freshwater fish that could once be found in lakes and rivers in North America. Other names for this Full Moon include Grain Moon, Green Corn Moon, Fruit Moon, and Barley Moon, all inspired by various crops that can be harvested in August. Most don't know that it belongs to a family of fish that has existed for more than 135 million years!

 

August's sturgeon moon got its nickname because the Great Lakes overflowed with sturgeons which were more easily caught in this month. Other native American tribes called the August full moon 'Full Green Corn Moon,' and the 'Blueberry Moon', a reference to the cereals and fruits slowly ripening under the August's sun.

Lake sturgeons are extremely long-lived. The males can reach 55 years, while females can live up to 150 years! And they can grow to be enormous. They are the American continent's largest fish and can grow to over 6 feet and weigh around 200 pounds on average though recently one was reported caught weighing 800 pounds in a river down in the SE United states!

 

Indeed lake sturgeons do not only live in lakes; they also live in rivers and the most known for them is the Columbia river gorge which separates Oregon from Washington state in the heart of the pacific Northwest, but interestingly, they do not live in the ocean. Sturgeon used to be a major part of the ecosystems in North America's Great Lakes, the Hudson Bay, and in the Mississippi River back east, and they were once found all the way from Canada to Alabama, but not in such abundance anymore, unfortunately for our descending generations.

 

August's sturgeon moon got its nickname because the Great Lakes overflowed with sturgeons which were more easily caught in this month. Other native American tribes called the August full moon 'Full Green Corn Moon,' and the 'Blueberry Moon', a reference to the cereals and fruits slowly ripening under the August's sun.