Once in tonight's blue moon I am most thankful!

[ananda]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101119/sc_space/thereallystrangestorybehindsundaysbluemoon

The full moon of November arrives on Sunday and will bring with it a cosmic addition: It will also be a so-called "blue moon."
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Occasionally, however, there will come a year when there are 13 full moons during a year, not the usual 12. The almanac explanation continued:

"This was considered a very unfortunate circumstance, especially by the monks who had charge of the calendar of thirteen months for that year, and it upset the regular arrangement of church festivals. For this reason thirteen came to be considered an unlucky number."

And with that extra full moon, it also meant that one of the four seasons would contain four full moons instead of the usual three.

"There are seven Blue Moons in a Lunar Cycle of nineteen years," continued the almanac, ending on the comment that, "In olden times the almanac makers had much difficulty calculating the occurrence of the Blue Moon and this uncertainty gave rise to the expression 'Once in a Blue Moon.'"

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And now the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald singing Blue Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXb2a0WQek4

[Lindsey]

1. Wow, I love it when we have blue moons. It happens so

rarely. I didn't know we had one tonight. Thanks for the head up!

[Lucian]

2. Changing into a wolf once a month is exhausting already...

and now I'll have to change twice in one month? Good grief! :P :silly: