Late in the evening on December 15th, I hurried outside to get a look at the final full moon of 2024, named the Cold Moon or Snow Moon by the Mohawk nation. I wasn't disappointed. Tall tree branches formed a lovely image of a nature Christmas wreath around the brightest moon I've seen. This full moon also marked a lunar rarity. One that occurs every 18.6 years. It happens when the moon reaches the extremes of its orbit around the earth. It rises and sets at its most northerly and southerly positions on the horizon called a "major lunar standstill."
A favorite description of the moon comes from the class movie, It's A Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart trying to strike up a romance with Donna Reed asks her what she would like.
Would you like the moon? He offers to lasso it for her. She smiles, and says, "I'll take it! Then, what?"
Would you like the moon? He offers to lasso it for her. She smiles, and says, "I'll take it! Then, what?"
"Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll dissolve, see... and the
moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers, and your toes, and the ends of
your hair..."
Have a light-filled holiday season. The angels are with you now and always...in all ways.
Love and peace,
Rae Karen
