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The 2026 Full Snow Moon will peak on at 5:09 pm EST. on Sunday, February 1st.
Coincidentally, the Full Snow Moon falls on the cross-quarter day Imbolic.
Celebrating the first signs of spring, lighting bonfires on the feast of St. Bridget. Spring and Lambing season would begin so and to mark this occasion dairy food were included in most meal. Other activities included spring cleaning, lighting candles to encourage the sun's return, planting seeds, and setting goals for the year are a part of Imbolic's traditions.
The 2nd full moon of the year is sometimes called the Bear Moon, possibly because a temporary rise in temperature, or hunger, causes them leave their den briefly. Groundhogs also will leave their dens in Mid February, at times, but they are looking for potential mates as well as food.
Though i've never heard this charm before,
"Candles lite in the snow there a snowdrop will soon grow"
I like it. Quite soon the snowdrops will break thru the ground under our ancient pine trees and bloom soon there after, a sight i looke forward to each year.
All gentle reminders that as Gaia stirs in her sleep the sun's warmth will start it's return.
February is the month when snow is likely to and accumulate in the Northern hemisphere. This year is the perfect example of that.
How i dreaded those long walks to and from school in the February snow, that was before the school buses covered the whole town. In those days little kids held the hands of big kids as they both walked thru deep snow. Now one rarely sees any kid, big or little outdoors.
Hungry Moon, and the Bone moon describe the the famine like conditions. Resourceful ancestors searched for bones and brought them home to boil into what we might now call "Bone Broth" .
" Live with the land, it is not you possession, or your slave ."
~~~Roy Tenhorses
a full moon, two stars
nothing but snow and pine trees
a promise begins
