Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cherokee, full moon on April 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Full Moon tonight. The Wind Full Moon. Ladies & gentlemen, this is tornado weather! Hide under the bed! Now! Why are you still standing there?
Cherokees call it the Flower Full Moon, Kawoni ᎧᏬᏂ. Rituals to Long Man, Spirit of the River were performed. A customary dance was the Knee Deep Dance, dustu ᏚᏍtᎣ.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon on March 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Tonight is a Full Moon, the Storm Moon. (storm in Kentucky is becoming a normal night, sigh) As Snoopy would say, it will be a dark and stormy night.
The Cherokees call it Windy Moon, Anuyi, ᎠᏄᏱ, so they agree. Figures dressed as Kanati, ᎧᎾᏘ, the Cherokee first man/hunter, help restart town-council sacred fires.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon on December 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »
FULL MOON ALERT
Tonight is the Long Nights Full Moon. Beware of draugar—they live in burial mounds & reanimate on nights like tonight. BUT they can be shapeshifters, so how can you be safe unless you are alone? They also inhabit dreams. Beware of going to sleep.
The Cherokee call this Snow Moon, Usgiyi, ᎤᏍᎩᏱ. The spirit being, “Snow Man”, brings cold & snow. Shoveling snow? I’d rather face draugar.
Gotta go—I hear something scratching on my window. And it’s snowing. The worst of both worlds!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cherokee, full moon on November 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Under the full moon, they make trades, but what are they trading? Weapons of war? My heart does ache. In the shadows, they become friends, but is it the friendship of peacemakers or warriors? I fear for the future.
Tonight, is the Cherokee Trading Moon, Nudadaequa, ᏄᏓᏓᎡᏆ, where people gathered from afar to trade. It is also the time of the Friendship Festival, Adohuna, ᎠᏙᎱᎾ, where friendship was made or renewed.
Take care, my friends.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon on November 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The chanting mourners march out of the cave. Who died? Why are they marching? What will they do? Beware the Mourning Full Moon tonight. You may be in danger.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged full moon on September 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Tonight is the Harvest Moon. Harvesting bodies, souls, or minds? Beware. Be safe. The Cherokee call this Nut Moon…September Du-li-i-s-di ᏚᎵᎢᏍᏗ. The Ripe Corn Festival honoring Ginitsi Selu, ᎩᏂᏥ ᏎᎷ, the Corn Mother. Never trust a full moon. Sleep well—if you can.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Barnes & Noble, books, Christmas, Diversion Press, full moon, Green River Writers, Halloween, halloween kentucky style, halloween scare, kids, literature, middle reader's, paperback, picture book, Thanksgiving, winter read, writers on April 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
You gotta watch those full moons! Other kids too! Halloween Kentucky Style (middle readers, Diversion Press, paperback)
Mike and Timmy try to scare Alice and Rosie. The trick’s on them when a younger neighbor and a homeless man team up to give them a real Halloween scare! It can be ordered from any bookstore or on-line retailer.
