How the Strawberry Supermoon on June 14 Will Affect You Astrologically
glamour.comstrawberry moon, , buck moon (expect that one in ), and so forth are not astrological terms but scientific and cultural ones.
According to the long-trusted , these moon monikers are not universal but taken from specific cultural groups and regions of the globe.
In this case, strawberry moon is from the Native American tribe, the Algonquins, but the Cherokees call it green corn moon, the Cree call it hatching moon, and some European cultural groups called it rose moon, honey moon, or mead moon.Farmers’ Almanac that the strawberry name “has been used by Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples, among others, to mark the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that are ready to be gathered.” It goes on to note that Europeans have had historical names for the June full moon: Because marriages often happened in June (which is named for the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno), they deemed it a honey moon or mead moon, thanks to the honeyed mead consumed at wedding celebrations.
that a supermoon occurs “when a full moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee.” (Interestingly, while an astrologer named coined the phrase in 1979, it is not widely used in astrological study.
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