SarahGray Lamm ~ Chapel Hill / Carrboro / Durham Real Estate Blog ~ Agent Outlier: Here's Hoping Your Blue Moon Turns To Gold

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Here's Hoping Your Blue Moon Turns To Gold

By now I'm sure you've heard that we will have a "Blue Moon" tonight, New Years Eve. How cool is that? We not only get a new year and a new decade but we get an extra moon...a blue moon...to boot!

full moon

We use the term Blue Moon more often nowadays than the names of the other  twelve moons. The Harvest Moon is probably the second best known. There's the Hunter Moon and the Gibbous Moon. Are you surprised to know that the Egg Moon is around Easter?

The moon won't really be blue. That only happens, well, once in a blue moon. To make the moon appear truly blue you need an atmospheric influence like, say, the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. But this "extra moon" is called a Blue Moon. Back when the calendar was aligned with the seasons and based on the phases of the moon (moon = month) folks planted and harvested crops based on the appearance of the Early, Mid or Late Moon in a season. Based on the calendar year, a Blue Moon (or a month with two moons) comes along about every 2.8 years more or less. That extra moon (or the third moon in a season with four if you prefer the seasonal way of doing things) was called a Blue Moon so as not to have to rename the Late Moon. That doesn't make them quite as rare as a truly blue moon but still...a Blue Moon on New Years Eve hasn't happened since 1990 and won't happen again until 2028.

So tonight we have an extra full moon, the second one of December 2009. Heaven knows we can certainly use a little something 'extra' to make 2009 memorable for more than loss, economic hardship, wars, crazy folks and ne'er-do-wells.

I'll take a beautiful full moon on the very last night of the year and hope it bodes well for us all. Here's hoping your blue moon turns to gold in 2010 - just like the song says!

 

Reference: Folklore of the "Blue Moon"

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Comments

Sarah, thanks for an enjoyable read and a song performed by one of my favorite singers.

Posted by Maria Morton (Prudential Kansas City Realty) 2 months ago

Thank you for the well wishes and I'm looking forward seeing that blue moon tonight

Make a 10 out of 2010~~~Happy New Year!

Posted by Fernando Herboso Real Estate Maryland, DC and Virginia (PrimeTime Realty Homes-Foreclosures in Maryland,Rockville MD) 2 months ago

SarahGray, thank you for the reminder. Happy New Year.

Posted by Sara Miniman (Weichert Realtors/ NJ Estates Real Estate Group) 2 months ago

Yes, I think the combination of End of Year/End of Decade/Blue Moon is especially magical.

Farmers Almanac has a page with full moon names for every month. One of my favorite names is in January: The Wolf Moon.

May everyone has a prosperous and joyous 2010!!!

Posted by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 2 months ago

Sarah~great post, an enjoyable read. Happy New Year!

Posted by Jen Anderson (Exit 1 Stop Realty) 2 months ago

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you. I hope it is a prosperous one indeed. 

Posted by Will Nesbitt - condos / real estate in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County (Condo 1 Alexandria / Will Nesbitt Realty LLC) 2 months ago

It is cool that today is the blue moon.  I don't think that will happen again for a while.

shelton

Posted by Team Honeycutt (Allen Tate) 2 months ago

Sarah,

Pretty neat that tonight will be a blue moon....Happy New Year!

Posted by Lori Cofer, REALTOR (Beasley Realty) 2 months ago

Man, talk about an old memory. There was a1950's group Wiley and Gene from Oklahoma. Their song that Gene wrote, "When my Blue Moon turns to Gold again", was covered by Elivis and a lot of others. Thanks for the memories.

Posted by Joe Pryor.com Realtor Oklahoma Investment Properties (Redbud Realty) 2 months ago

Maria - Hard to beat Ella!

Fernando - Since we are both on the East Coast I hope we GET to see it! The clouds are looming...

Frank - Maybe someday we will harness the tides to generate power! ;-)

Cheryl - Great link! I LOVE seeing the American Indian names for the moons. Thanks!

Jen - Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

Will - I'm going with the auspiciousness of it all!

Shelton - You would be right! 2028

Lori - Glad you share my glee!

Joe - Yep and I almost linked to it after I found it thru Creative Commons. Just couldn't get the embed to stay on my post after updating the post! It's actually a great recording of them. Check it out! http://www.archive.org/details/WileyWalkerGeneSullivan-WhenMyBlueMoonTurnsToGold1941

Happy Blue Moon Everyone!

Posted by SarahGray Lamm~REALTOR~ 60K Hours of NC Real Estate Experience~ (Allen Tate Realtors Chapel Hill, NC) 2 months ago

Lovely.  Wish I had the photo technology to capture this!  Best wishes for the New Year.

Michael

Posted by Michael Bergin, Northern Virginia Real Estate (Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - ABR - SRES ) 2 months ago

Lovely.  Wish I had the photo technology to capture this!  Best wishes for the New Year.

Michael

Posted by Michael Bergin, Northern Virginia Real Estate (Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - ABR - SRES ) 2 months ago

SarahGray  I just stopped by to wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Posted by Karen Kruschka - Prince William, Fairfax ,Stafford County VA Real Estate Service (RE/MAX Olympic Realty) 2 months ago

I got to see the Moon briefly before the clouds blocked it's view, but I had a friend that went to a Blue Moon party last night.

Posted by JL Boney, III Columbia, SC Real Estate (Russell and Jeffcoat) 2 months ago
I am so disappointed that I didn't even realize there was a Blue Moon on NYE!! Thanks for the great photo!
Posted by Renee Burrows - Las Vegas NV Valley - Homes For Sale - Real Estate Market News (The Force Realty -Realtor>Estate>Probate>REO>Short Sale) 2 months ago

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