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I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “Blue Moon.” Here’s a helpful post on blue moons.When is the next Blue Moon? | EarthSky.org“The next Blue Moon will come on October 31, 2020. It’ll be called a Blue Moon because it’ll be the second of two full moons to occur in a single calendar month. The last Blue Moon by this definition of the term happened on March 31, 2018.There’s another definition for Blue Moon. It can be the third of four full moons in a single season, with a season being between a solstice and equinox. The next seasonal Blue Moon will be August 22, 2021.In recent years, people have been using the name Blue Moon for these two different sorts of moons: second of two full moons in a calendar month, or third of four full moons in a single season.Someday, you might see an actual blue-colored moon. Meanwhile, the moon you’ll see on October 31, 2020, likely won’t look blue, and blue-colored moons in photos – like the ones on this page – are usually made using special blue camera filters or in a post-processing program such as PhotoShop.The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome, Italy, will be hosting a live viewing of the May 18, 2019, full moon rising above the Rome skyline. Click here for more information.Let’s talk about seasonal Blue Moons first. A year has 12 months, and months – or “moonths” – have lengths more or less based on a single orbit of the moon around Earth. What we call a season – winter, spring, summer, fall – typically lasts three months, and typically has three full moons.If a season has four full moons, then the third full moon may be called a Blue Moon, according to the old Maine Farmer’s Almanac. There was a Blue Moon by this definition on November 21, 2010, another on August 20-21, 2013, another on May 21, 2016, and another on May 18, 2019. The next will be on August 22, 2021.Desert Blue Moon from our friend Priya Kumar in Oman, August 2012. Thank you, Priya!The best-known and most popular definition of Blue Moon is that it describes the second full moon of a calendar month. By this definition, there was a Blue Moon on July 31, 2015, January 31, 2018, and March 31, 2018. The next one will be October 31, 2020.The time between one full moon and the next is close to the length of a calendar month. So the only time one month can have two full moons is when the first full moon happens in the first few days of the month. This happens every two to three years, so these sorts of Blue Moons come about that often.Very rarely, a seasonal Blue Moon (third of four full moons in one season) and a monthly Blue Moon (second of two full moons in one calendar month) can occur in the same calendar year. For this to happen, you need 13 full moons between successive December solstices for a seasonal Blue Moon – and, generally, 13 full moons in one calendar year for a monthly Blue Moon.This will next happen in the year 2048, when a monthly Blue Moon falls on January 31, and a seasonal Blue Moon on August 23.Then 19 years later, in the year 2067, there will be a monthly Blue Moon on March 30, and a seasonal Blue Moon on November 20. In this instance, there are 13 full moons between successive December solstices – but only 12 full moons in one calendar year and no February 2067 full moon.Blue moons don’t really look blue in color. Greg Hogan got this shot of a Blue Moon (blue in name only!) on July 31, 2015. He wrote: “Having some fun with the blue moon idea……I blended the same image twice one with a blue tint, and one normal. :) “The idea of a Blue Moon as the second full moon in a month stemmed from the March 1946 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, which contained an article called Once in a Blue Moon by James Hugh Pruett. Pruett was referring to the 1937 Maine Farmer’s Almanac, but he inadvertently simplified the definition. He wrote:Seven times in 19 years there were – and still are – 13 full moons in a year. This gives 11 months with one full moon each and one with two. This second in a month, so I interpret it, was called Blue Moon.Had James Hugh Pruett looked at the actual date of the 1937 Blue Moon, he would have found that it had occurred August 21, 1937. Also, there were only 12 full moons in 1937. You generally need 13 full moons in one calendar year to have two full moons in one calendar month.However, that fortuitous oversight gave birth to a new and perfectly understandable definition for Blue Moon.EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd happened upon a copy of this old 1946 issue of Sky and Telescope in the stacks of the Peridier Library at the University of Texas Astronomy Department in the late 1970s. Afterward, she began using the term Blue Moon to describe the second full moon in a calendar month on the radio. Later, this definition of Blue Moon was also popularized by a book for children by Margot McLoon-Basta and Alice Siegel, called Kids’ World Almanac of Records and Facts, published in New York by World Almanac Publications in 1985. The second-full-moon-in-a-month definition was also used in the board game Trivial Pursuit.Today, it has become part of folklore. As the folklorist Philip Hiscock wrote in his comprehensive article Once in a Blue Moon:‘Old folklore’ it is not, but real folklore it is.This photo was created using special blue filters, too. Image via EarthSky Facebook friend Jv Noriega.Can a moon be blue in color? Yes, but it’s very rare to see a blue-colored moon. You need unusual sky conditions – certain-sized particles of dust or smoke – to create them.Blue-colored moons aren’t predictable. So don’t be misled by the photos above. The sorts of moons people commonly call Blue Moons aren’t usually blue.For more about truly blue-colored moons, click here.Resources:Phases of the moon: 2001 to 2100Solstices and equinoxes: 2001 to 2100What most call a Blue Moon isn’t blue in color. It’s only Blue in name. This great moon photo is from EarthSky Facebook friend Rebecca Lacey in Cambridge, Idaho.Bottom line: A blue-colored moon is rare. But folklore has defined two different kinds of Blue Moons, and moons that are Blue by name are pretty common. The next Blue Moon will come on October 31, 2020. It’ll be called a Blue Moon because it’ll be the second of two full moons in a single calendar month.”Thanks for your question! I hope this answer was helpful.

At last, clear verbal proof of correlations between astrology, astronomy and even a plug for the meteorologists who have been pointing to the existence of what’s called the SuperMoon for several years! Yes, I suppose you could say one could “sense” the Full Moon without seeing it—just as one can “sense” the New Moon without knowing it’s marked on the calendar. Both the New and Full Moons especially related to the ocean tides will be signs of what are called the SuperMoon in particular. While not all New or Full Moons are SuperMoons, take note of Peter Edwards’ response because he alludes to the SuperMoons although he hasn’t said the word.It would be nice if those whose careers or personal interests don’t include anything related to astrology might consider articles offered by NASA, Space, and Earthsky—all published early in 2019—before launching attacks on the subject. Surely those whose credentials appear to be saying they’re too busy for them to wander off their preferred paths to one they consider beneath them, might also find their hostile, dismissive, and demeaning comments unbecoming of those who claim such stature in their respective fields.I’ve mentioned these three sources before mentioning the source of the information since a reverse order could tend to prejudice the willingness of those who hold such an attitude toward astrology as a serious subject. However, Richard Nolle’s work with the SuperMoon has been widely recognized in astrological circles for 40 years. Whether those four decades have been instrumental in giving those three sites devoted to astronomy, earth science, meteorology and so on more to consider from the field of astrology isn’t mine to say. I do believe however that the recognition of the SuperMoon is a major step toward the acceptance of this field if through nothing more than their not dismissing these findings. While NASA doesn’t mention Richard Nolle and his profession as an astrologer, I’m not going to try to figure out why they didn’t. I’m well aware scientists have firmly dug in their feet on the subject of astrology in general; yet their recognition of the SuperMoon appears to be a step in that direction.In his 1986 book, Interpreting Astrology: New Techniques & Perspectives (©1986, American Federation of Astrologers), Richard Nolle writes in part, “If you were anywhere along the Atlantic seaboard in 1979, you probably remember Hurricane David. The New York Times described it at the time as one of the worst storms to hit the Atlantic seaboard in the 20th century. Descriptions of the storm’s fury filled the pages of the Times early in September that year.”…“The news media did a good job reporting the [1979] damage left in Hurricane David’s wake, but one national magazine broke the story way ahead of the others. The September 1979 issue of Dell Horoscope, the world’s leading astrological monthly, hit the newsstands in July—some six weeks before Hurricane David hit, mind you—with an article that began as follows:“’It is September 6, 1979; the wind blows hard from the sea onto the Atlantic coast of the United States. The Moon rises a little past full as the Sun sets, but the gale-driven clouds insure that few people will be out to enjoy the sight for long. Earlier in the day, the morning high tide rolls and surges inland, but the worst comes after dark. A little before 10:00 PM (EDT), the dark waves boil over seawalls in Savannah, Georgia.’“That article was written in December 1978 (postmarked on the 29th, to be precise), and was typeset the following March. As predictions go it was a rather good one, if I do say so myself. To be sure, I was a couple days off the mark in picking the exact date Savannah was deluged, but the fact remains that on September 6, 1979, the sea assaulted the Atlantic coast, just as I had written more than nine months in advance of the fact…“Tidal ebb and flow are powered by the gravitational attraction the Sun and Moon exert on Earth. Although the Sun is by far the more massive of the two, Luna’s closer proximity results in the lunar influence being a much more prominent factor in influencing the tides. In fact, the tide-raising force of the Moon is more than twice that of the Sun.“Anyone who frequents the seashore knows that a new or full Moon is always accompanied by higher-than-normal tides. A quarter Moon, on the other hand, is always accompanied by lower-than-normal tides. The stronger new and full Moon tides are called spring tides, while those accompanying the quarter Moon are termed neap tides. Astrology distinguishes the lunar phases as a particular class of aspects, where an aspect is defined as an angular relationship involving two or more celestial bodies as seen from Earth. The new Moon is a conjunction aspect between the Sun and the Moon, while the full Moon is an opposition aspect between these two; and a quarter Moon is a square aspect between the two luminaries.“The fact that new and full Moons coincide with a pronounced increase in tidal action lends credence to the ancient astrological tradition, passed down through Ptolemy, which holds that the conjunction and opposition aspects are essentially equal in power; and further that these two are far superior in strength to all other aspects.“Astrology and astronomy alike use the general term syzygy…to denote both new and full Moon. Basically, a syzygy is an alignment between Earth and two or more celestial bodies. At new Moon, Earth, Sun and Moon are lined up with the Moon in the middle. At full Moon, the alignment occurs with Earth in the middle. As aspects go, any syzygy is powerful. But some are more powerful than others, resulting in dramatically different tidal effects from one syzygy to the next.“The Greek astrologer Hipparchus (ca 125 BCE), is widely credited with inventing the system of zodiacal signs (as opposed to the constellations of the same name) upon which modern astrology is based. … Less well known in astrological circles is Hipparchus’ discovery that the Moon does not maintain a constant distance from Earth. Noticing that the Moon appears larger at certain times of the lunar month than others. Hipparchus reasoned that Luna’s orbit at times carries her closer to Earth than usual. The closer approach, he termed perigee (literally, closest to Earth), while the maximum separation was called apogee.” … [He adds paragraphs as well devoted to Ptolemy’s, Kepler’s and Newton’s observations of the perigee-syzygy, including Newton’s observations related to the normal spring tide with an ordinary syzygy with a tidal height of 10.5 feet and one coinciding with the perigee-syzygy that could raise the tide to 12.5 feet or more.]“In 1978, an in-depth study of perigean spring tides was published by Fergus Wood, research associate with the US National Ocean Survey (NOS), under the title The Strategic Role of Perigean Spring Tides. Wood’s comprehensive treatise clearly shows that perigean tides are among the mightiest weapons in nature’s arsenal of destruction. Searching through contemporary accounts reaching back over three hundred years, Wood found that perigean tides have resulted in immense assaults on the coastal zones of North America, costing many thousands of lives and billions of dollars in property damage.”“Such awesome displays of nature’s wrath are not solely due to perigean tides. As Newton observed, they are caused by perigee-spring tides augmented by strong offshore winds. But in this connection it is worth noting that asetrometeorologists have long held that any new or full Moon tends to coincide with the formation of strong low-pressure centers in Earth’s atmosphere…“There are a number of factors which must be taken into account in predicting dangerous perigean tides, and the weather is foremost among these. Without simultaneous onshore winds, perigean tide poses no special danger to coastal interests. Also, as Fergus Wood writes, perigean spring tides ‘do not necessarily occur on the central day of perigee-syzygy…but can show up within several days before or after it.’[1]…“A perigee-syzygy can also pose a threat to other than marine and coastal interests, for two principal reasons. In the first place, the perigee-syzygy tends to coincide with atmospheric low-pressure systems, which can bring about dangerous storms inland as well as at sea. Further, there is evidence to suggest that the perigee-syzygy may also be a factor in earthquakes, due to stress in Earth’s crust caused by the amplified gravitational forces at work in such a configuration. An example of this possibility is furnished by the California earthquakes of November 22 and 26, 1976, which registered 3.8 and 6.3 on the Richter scale respectively. Both quakes came close on the heels of the perigee-syzygy of November 21.“Examples of the devastating combination of high winds and surging perigean spring tides are too numerous to do them justice here. (The NOS report by Fergus Wood mentions more than 100 cases in North America alone.) Still, it’s sobering to consider a selection of historical instances of the destruction wrought by the perigee-syzygy. One of the more fascinating cases is the so-called ‘Saxby Tide’ of October 4, 1869, which wrought incredible devastation in the eastern maritime provinces of Canada. Nearly a year beforehand, a Lt. Saxby of the British Navy had written a letter which was published in a London newspaper in November 1868, warning of possible flood tides coincident with the perigee-syzygy of October 5, 1869.…“…It was the first recorded successful prediction of a perigee-syzygy deluge, but it was not to be the last.”I’m skipping a lot, obviously, because this is an extensive quote in which I’m going to offer two last paragraphs from his book since this cuts to the quick in the relevance to your question:“Ironically, much of what the ancients considered as mundane astrology has passed into the realm of orthodox science, principally since Isaac Newton formulated the theory of gravitation, which provided a logical and causal basis for relating solar, lunar and planetary alignments to such terrestrial phenomena as tides, climate, earthquakes and ionospheric disturbances. Throughout modern history, whenever an orthodox scientific explanation has been advanced to account for astrological teachings, the scientists have appropriated astrology and called it something else—without so much as a thank you, they have pilfered astrology’s true and rightful legacy. Until a couple decades ago, plagiarisms of this sort have stopped short of encroaching on the personal component of the cosmic craft, being confined to the mundane sphere. But the development in the field of biology of the so-called biological clocks’ theory has led many researchers to suspect that cosmis bodies do have a direct influence on terrestrial life forms.“Based on experimental evidence, many biologists now believe that earthly organisms time their behavior in some unknown way so as to coincide with certain celestial configurations. Although the topic remains somewhat controversial, one school of thought (numbering among its champions Dr. Frank Brown of Northwestern University) holds that the mysterious biological clocks are synchronized with the Sun and Moon. If this is true, there may be some scientific basis for believing that the perigee-syzygy has direct consequences for individual life forms on Earth—including each of us as human beings.”Richard also notes how many people dating back to Paracelsus’ time in the 16th century where “extremes of psychotic behavior at the new Moon” often came into play, but “doctors in 18th century England” took the opposite view and sasw the full Moon as the one associated with those behaviors. Even today, we hear of a rise in various crimes or accidents around the full Moon. “In a 1961 report to the American Institute of Medical Climatology, Inspector Wilfred Faust of the Philadelphia Police Department observed that the full Moon brings on an increase in reported crimes of violence.[2] Studies of homocides in Dade County, Florida and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, show a full Moon murder peak. A similar study by the St. Louis Police Department failed to show a lunar murder cycle, but police officers there report that citizen complaints reach a peak in the full Moon.“A possible explanation for lunar rhythms in human behavior may be that the Moon affects the nervous systems of individual human beings. At the Virginia Department of Health, Dr. Leonard Ravitz measured the difference in electric potential between the head and chest of mental patients. Over a period of years, certain patterns became obvious, and Ravitz was led to the conclusion that changes in an individual’s electric potential followed a solar as well as lunar rhythm. In particular, a 27-year-old schizophrenic in Ravitz’s care showed a consistent tendency to exhibit exaggerated psychotic symptoms at the new and full Moon, when instrument readings showed the greatest difference in electric potential.“If as normal syzygy (new or full Moon) is enough to send some people into a frenzy, the much stronger perigee-syzygy seems even more likely to coincide with extremes in human behavior; which is why my inclination is to call this alignment a ‘Supermoon.’ It’s enough to make a person wonder whether the course of wisdom in the event of a perigee-syzygy alignment of Sun ande Moon might be an astrologer Elbert Wade suggests: ‘Stay off the streets…use extra care in driving, and avoid going to the sort of places where trouble may strike.’[3]”Please note, Richard Nolle gave me permission to use what I needed to for this reply.There will be those who want to refute the facts mentioned above from Richard Nolle’s work. Ironically, the school shooting in Santa Clarita, California today (November 14) was not during a perigee-syzygy Full Moon that would qualify as the Supermoon. But we had a Full Moon on the 12th of November. Police mentioned today was the shooter’s 16th birthday which gives me an option of ignoring the angles of the chart and opting for a general idea of what might have been going on with his chart. The Nodes of the Moon in his natal chart form a 34-minute partile conjunction (partile - less than a degree) to the Full Moon from the 12th. Remanence comes into play with the midpoint of his natal placements of Uranus and Neptune, forming an 8-minute partile square to the Full Moon. While the natal chart wouldn’t necessarily point to mental health challenges on its own, when compared to the Full Moon of November 12, the two establish the potential for severe mental health challenges.I didn’t do more than a look at the date sixteen years ago, using the Noon midpoint as a reference for a Santa Clarita chart. In no way is it perfect, only ballparked for a comparative look at the Full Moon chart of November 12. I wouldn’t go beyond this without a more precise set of data, but the precision with which his chart fell against the Full Moon chart offers the first glimpse of what appears to me for his having had a breakdown.There’s so much more that can be said, but I’m not looking to convince you, only to give you possibilities enough that I could answer your question with an absolute yes, one can sense a lunar phase without seeing it especially with a new, quarter or full Moon. It depends on one’s sensitivity, which you mentioned, as well as the ears for the tides or any other number of factors. I hope this offers a bit of possibility for you.Thanks for asking.Footnotes[1] http://Fergus Wood, The Strategic Role of Perigean Spring Tides (Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, 1978), p. 408.[2] http://Elbert Wade, "Coping With Full Moon 'Madness'," Dell HOROSCOPE, Vo. 43, No. 11 (November, 1977), p. 41.[3] http://Elbert Wade, "Coping With Full Moon 'Madness'," Dell HOROSCOPE, Vo. 43, No. 11 (November, 1977), p. 41.

** I am currently getting reports of 90% or more accuracy to my Birth Chart interpretations. There is a link to evidence of this below. **The overall Birth Chart is concerned with Karma.What we bring to this life from past lives are shown by the Moon position and aspects in a Birth Chart. We tend to be born into a family that relates. So we use this to establish ourself in the world, and become self supporting -away from parental controls. Having done this we are more ready to “do our own thing” as indicated by our Sun Sign - which is the indicator of our Creative Power for this lifetime.Many people do not get past their Moon Sign biological and material basis - they just keep on repeating the past. For example, I had a friend who married 4 times, and was still obviously unhappy because the relationship was stopping him doing what he wanted. This also follows for people who keep seeking such things as the bigger house, the bigger car, the bigger bank balance - none of which can be taken with us when we pass on to the next world. We enter life alone, and leave it alone.New life lessons are indicated by the Sun position and aspects in a Birth Chart.We would not be able to handle the full power of the Sun, so its energy is divided into 12 parts - as indicated by the Annual Cycle of Nature. So our Sun Sign shows what form of energy we are learning about.Eventually over numerous incarnations we have to learn all 12 lessons.As an example of what Spiritual Development means we have the psychologist Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” diagram below - which indicates that we cannot “skip” any Stage of Development - or Lesson. Until we can handle our Material Life we are not ready to go further. For example, in undeveloped countries they can only focus on day to day existence.******************************SUN SIGN LESSONSHere is a brief summary of the Sun Sign Lessons.FIRE SIGNS (Power. Stimulation)(March 21-April 19) Aries The Ram - Impatience. Leadership. Independent action(July 23-August 22) Leo the Lion - Controlled energy. Wise use of power.(Nov. 22 - December 21) Sagittarius the Archer - Future aims. Theory. Broadening the mind from travel or academic study.AIR SIGNS (Training the mind. Communication)(May 21-June 20) Gemini - The Twins. Objects have names in the mind. Rational thinking and practical experiment. Communication.(Sept. 23 - October 22) Libra - The Scales. Balance. Partnerships. Harmony in relationships. Decision Making.(Jan. 20 - February 18) Aquarius - The Water Carrier. A Cloud. Independence. Individuation. Finding new ways. Finding One’s Self.EARTH SIGNS (Practical abilities. Care of a physical body)(April 20 - May 20) Taurus - The Bull. Overcoming Inertia. Organisation and Routine.Patience. Handling money and other resources - including the human body.(August 23 - Sept. 22) Virgo - The Virgin. Care of the body. Service to Self. Mental Analysis. Health. Discrimination.(December 22 - Jan.19) Capricorn - The Mountain Goat. Climbing. Long term planning. Career. Perseverance. Self Discipline.WATER SIGNS (Compassion. Feelings. Emotional Sensitivity. Psychic Abilities.)(June 21 - July 22) Cancer The Crab - The Shell. Home building and Personal Security. Putting down roots. Psychic self defence.(October 23 - Nov. 21) Scorpio Scorpion/Eagle/Dove - Personal Transformation. Investigating the secrets of life. Research. Emotional Control. The Truth will set you free.(Feb. 19 - March 20) Pisces The Fish - The "sea" of the Collective Unconscious. Service to others. Karma.————————————-With 40 years practice, interpreting hundreds of Birth Charts, I am currently getting reports of 90% or more accuracy from my Birth Chart interpretations. Which allows for influences still to come.There is EVIDENCE of this from the links here - which have added comments as to accuracy.Brian Baulsom's answer to Is astrology a science or a matter of trust?