Today, February 5, is the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. Chinese New Year, known as the Spring Festival, typically lasts 15 or 16 days and always ends with the Lantern Festival — that’s today/night. Chinese New Year begins with the first new Moon of the year and ends with the following full Moon
Tonight’s full Moon is commonly known as the Full Snow Moon because February is usually the snowiest month in the United States. Various cultures, of course, had their own names for each month’s moon. The Cherokee tribe called February’s full moon the Bone Moon because by this time of the year, the tribe’s winter food supplies had usually dwindled down to the point where people had to gnaw on bones and cook bone marrow soup in order to survive.
Last evening the Moon was spectacular — I expect nothing less when tonight’s full Moon rises.
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