Saturday, January 02, 2010
A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (7 times in the 19-year Metonic cycle), there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is called a "blue moon." Different definitions place the "extra" moon at different times.
via en.wikipedia.org
We had one of these on New Years Eve... and combine that, the end of a decade, one of the most exciting lightning storms I've ever seen, a great festival (Falls in Marion Bay) and a pile of friends; and you have yourself a recipe for some serious energy in the air. That kind of thing can only happen once in a blue moon.
