Editing Full moon (section)

==In folklore and tradition==
{{See also|List of lunar deities|Lunar effect}}
[[File:Moon and red blue haze.jpg|thumb|A full moon rising, seen through the [[Belt of Venus]]]]

In Buddhism, [[Vesak]] is celebrated on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month, marking the birth, enlightenment, and the death of the Buddha.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/newsround/48106687|title=Vesak 2023: What is it and how do Buddhists celebrate Buddha Day or Wesak?|newspaper=BBC Newsround |date=May 15, 2019}}</ref>

In Arabic, badr (بدر ) means 'full moon', but it is often translated as 'white moon', referring to [[The White Days]], the three days when the full moon is celebrated.

Full moons are traditionally associated with [[insomnia]] (inability to sleep), [[insanity]] (hence the terms ''lunacy'' and ''lunatic'') and various "magical phenomena" such as [[lycanthropy]]. Psychologists, however, have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on human behavior around the time of a full moon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Full Moon Effect On Behavior Minimal, Studies Say|date=6 February 2004|work=National Geographic News|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1218_021218_moon.html|access-date=3 December 2005|archive-date=24 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724190118/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1218_021218_moon.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> They find that studies are generally not consistent, with some showing a positive effect and others showing a negative effect. In one instance, the 23 December 2000 issue of the ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' published two studies on dog bite admission to hospitals in England and Australia. The study of the [[Bradford Royal Infirmary]] found that dog bites were twice as common during a full moon, whereas the study conducted by the public hospitals in Australia found that they were less likely.

[[File:Triple Goddess Symbol.svg|thumb|right|Symbol of the Triple Goddess]]
The symbol of the [[Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)|Triple Goddess]] is drawn with the circular image of the full moon in the center flanked by a left facing crescent and right facing crescent, on either side, representing a maiden, mother and crone archetype.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gilligan |first1=Stephen G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkLBOvt10jwC&dq=%22triple+goddess%22+crescent+moon+symbol&pg=PA148 |title=Walking in Two Worlds: The Relational Self in Theory, Practice, and Community |last2=Simon |first2=Dvorah |date=2004 |publisher=Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers |isbn=978-1-932462-11-1 |pages=148 |language=en}}</ref>

===Full moon names===
Historically, month names are names of moons ([[lunation]]s, not necessarily full moons) in [[lunisolar calendar]]s. Since the introduction of the solar [[Julian calendar]] in the Roman Empire, and later the [[Gregorian calendar]] worldwide, people no longer perceive month names as "moon" names. The traditional [[Germanic calendar#Month names|Old English month names]] were equated with the names of the Julian calendar from an early time, soon after the [[Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England]]. This can be seen in the testimony of [[Bede]] from ''[[The Reckoning of Time]]'' (CE 725), where lunar month names are equated with the approximate Roman equivalents.

Some full moons have developed new names in modern times, such as "[[blue moon]]", as well as "harvest moon" and "hunter's moon" for the full moons of autumn.

The golden or reddish hue of the Harvest Moon and other full moons near the horizon is caused by atmospheric scattering. When the Moon is low in the sky, its light passes through a thicker layer of Earth's atmosphere, scattering shorter wavelengths like blue and violet and allowing longer wavelengths, such as red and yellow, to dominate. This effect, combined with environmental factors such as dust, pollutants, or haze, can intensify or dull the Moon's color. Clear skies often enhance the yellow or golden appearance, particularly during the autumn months when these full moons are observed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-03 |title=Deciphering the Spiritual Meaning of the Yellow Moon - SoulfulDreaming |url=https://soulfuldreaming.com/spiritual-meaning-of-the-yellow-moon/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Lunar eclipse]]s occur only at a full moon and often cause a reddish hue on the [[near side of the Moon]]. This full moon has been called a blood moon in popular culture.<ref name="Sappenfield">{{cite news |last=Sappenfield |first=Mark |title=Blood Moon to arrive Monday night. What is a Blood Moon? |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0413/Blood-Moon-to-arrive-Monday-night.-What-is-a-Blood-Moon |access-date=8 February 2018 |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=13 April 2014 |archive-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815125355/https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0413/Blood-Moon-to-arrive-Monday-night.-What-is-a-Blood-Moon |url-status=live }}</ref>

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====Harvest and hunter's moons====
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[[File:harvest moon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A harvest moon. Its orange color is due to greater [[Rayleigh scattering]] as the Moon appears close above the horizon, rather than being unique to harvest moons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.research.utoronto.ca/harvest-moon/ |title=Why is the harvest moon so big and orange? |date=27 September 2010 |publisher=[[University of Toronto]] |last=Percy |first=John |access-date=9 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230520/http://www.research.utoronto.ca/harvest-moon/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]

The "harvest moon" and the "hunter's moon" are traditional names for the full moons in late summer and in the autumn in the [[Northern Hemisphere]], usually in September and October, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-10 |title=What Makes the Hunter's Moon Special? {{!}} Almanac.com |url=https://www.almanac.com/what-makes-hunters-moon-special |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=www.almanac.com |language=en}}</ref> People may celebrate these occurrences in festivities such as the Chinese [[Mid-Autumn Festival]].

The "harvest moon" (also known as the "barley moon" or "full corn moon") is the full moon nearest to the [[September equinox|autumnal equinox]] (22 or 23 September), occurring anytime within two weeks before or after that date.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.almanac.com/content/what-harvest-moon |title= What is a Harvest Moon? |publisher= [[Old Farmer's Almanac]] |access-date= 2017-05-10 |archive-date= 2017-05-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170511071841/http://www.almanac.com/content/what-harvest-moon |url-status= live }}</ref> The "hunter's moon" is the full moon following it. The names are recorded from the early 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |first=James |last=Ferguson |title=Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics |year=1756 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ji1cAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128 |page=128 |quote=...'harvest moon' is also the cognate of ''herbist-mānod'', the [[Old High German]] name of November recorded in ''[[Vita Karoli Magni]]'', ch. 29. |access-date=2016-02-09 |archive-date=2023-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409161331/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ji1cAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' entry for "harvest moon" cites a 1706 reference, and for "hunter's moon" a 1710 edition of ''The British Apollo'', which attributes the term to "the country people" ("The Country People call this the Hunters-Moon.") The names became traditional in [[American folklore]], where they are now often popularly attributed to [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.nightskyinfo.com/sky_highlights/hunters_moon/ |title= The Hunter's Moon |last= Neata |first= Emil |publisher= Night Sky Info |access-date= 29 December 2008 |archive-date= 5 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201105231959/http://www.nightskyinfo.com/sky_highlights/hunters_moon/ |url-status= live }}</ref> The [[Feast of the Hunters' Moon]] is a yearly festival in [[West Lafayette, Indiana]], held in late September or early October each year since 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm |title= Feast of the Hunters' Moon |publisher=Tippecanoe County Historical Association |url-status=dead |archive-url= 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090620084610/http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm |archive-date=20 June 2009 }}</ref> In 2010 the harvest moon occurred on the night of the equinox itself (some 5{{fraction|1|2}} hours after the moment of equinox) for the first time since 1991, after a period known as the [[Metonic cycle]].<ref>{{cite web |first= Tony |last= Phillips |url= https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/22sep_harvestmoon/ |title= Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon |publisher= [[NASA]] Science |date= 22 September 2010 |access-date= 13 September 2011 |archive-date= 21 August 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110821060823/http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/22sep_harvestmoon/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Jack |last=Maddox |url=https://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/22/harvest.moon/index.html |title= Super Harvest Moon: Autumn phenomenon is a rare treat |publisher= [[CNN]] |date= 22 September 2010 |access-date= 13 September 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718212948/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-22/living/harvest.moon_1_autumn-full-moon-optical-illusion?_s=PM:LIVING |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

All full moons rise around the time of sunset. Since the Moon moves eastward among the stars faster than the Sun, lunar [[culmination]] is delayed by about 50.47 minutes<ref>1440 minutes / 29.531 days = 50.47 minutes</ref> (on average) each day, thus causing moonrise to occur later each day.

Due to the high [[lunar standstill]], the harvest and hunter's moons of 2007 were special because the time difference between moonrises on successive evenings was much shorter than average. The moon rose about 30 minutes later from one night to the next, as seen from about 40° N or S latitude (because the full moon of September 2007 rose in the northeast rather than in the east). Hence, no long period of darkness occurred between sunset and moonrise for several days after the full moon,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://calgary.rasc.ca/sunset_moonrise.htm |title= Sunset and Moonrise |first= Larry |last= McNish |publisher= RASC Calgary Centre |year= 2007 |quote= This gives a graph showing the effect as seen from Calgary, for the whole of the year 2007. |access-date= 2016-02-19 |archive-date= 2017-03-17 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170317232428/http://calgary.rasc.ca/sunset_moonrise.htm |url-status= live }}</ref> thus lengthening the time in the evening when there is enough twilight and [[moonlight]] to work to get the harvest in.

====Native American====
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Various 18th and 19th century writers gave what were claimed to be [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] moon names. These were not the names of the full moons as such, but were the names of lunar months beginning with each [[new moon]]. According to [[Jonathan Carver]] in 1778, "Some nations among them reckon their years by moons, and make them consist of twelve synodical or lunar months, observing, when thirty moons have waned, to add a supernumerary one, which they term the lost moon; and then begin to count as before." Carver gave the names of the lunar months (starting from the first after the [[March equinox]]) as Worm, Plants, Flowers, Hot, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Travelling, Beaver, Hunting, Cold, Snow.<ref>{{cite book |last=Carver |first=Jonathan | date=1778 |title= Travels through the interior parts of North-America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 |url= https://archive.org/details/travelsthroughin00incarv/page/250/mode/2up |location= London| page=250 }}</ref> Carver's account was reproduced verbatim in ''Events in Indian History'' (1841),<ref>{{cite book |last=Wimer |first= James |date=1841 |title=Events in Indian History |url= https://archive.org/details/eventsinindianh00jamegoog/page/550/mode/2up |location=Lancaster |publisher= G. Hills and Co.|page=551 }}</ref> but completely different lists were given by Eugene Vetromile (1856)<ref>{{cite book |last=Vetromile |first=Eugene |date=1856 |title=Indian Good Book |url= https://archive.org/details/indiangoodboo00vetr/page/440/mode/2up |location=New York |publisher=Edward Dunigan and Brother |page=440}}</ref> and [[Peter Jones (missionary)|Peter Jones]] (1861).<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Peter |date=1861 |title= History of the Ojebway Indians |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofojebway00jone/page/136/mode/2up |location= London|publisher=A.W. Bennett |page=136}}</ref>

In a book on Native American culture published in 1882, [[Richard Irving Dodge]] stated:<ref>{{cite book |last=Dodge |first=R.I. |date=1882 |title=Our Wild Indians |url=https://archive.org/details/indiansourwildth00dodgrich/page/396/mode/2up |location=Hartford, Conn. |publisher=A.D. Worthington and Company |page=397}}</ref>

<blockquote>There is a difference among authorities as to whether or not the moons themselves are named. Brown gives names for nine moons corresponding to months. Maximillian gives the names of twelve moons; and Belden, who lived many years among the Sioux, asserts that "the Indians compute their time very much as white men do, only they use moons instead of months to designate the seasons, each answering to some month in our calendar." Then follows a list of twelve moons with Indian and English names. While I cannot contradict so positive and minute a statement of one so thoroughly in a position to know, I must assert with equal positiveness that I have never met any wild Indians, of the Sioux or other Plains tribes, who had a permanent, common, conventional name for any moon. The looseness of Belden's general statement, that "Indians compute time like white people," when his only particularization of similarity is between the months and moons, is in itself sufficient to render the whole statement questionable.

My experience is that the Indian, in attempting to fix on a particular moon, will designate it by some natural and well-known phenomenon which culminates during that moon. But two Indians of the same tribe may fix on different designations; and even the same Indian, on different occasions, may give different names to the same moon. Thus, an Indian of the middle Plains will to-day designate a spring moon as "the moon when corn is planted;" to-morrow, speaking of the same moon, he may call it "the moon when the buffalo comes." Moreover, though there are thirteen moons in our year, no observer has ever given an Indian name to the thirteenth. My opinion is, that if any of the wild tribes have given conventional names to twelve moons, it is not an indigenous idea, but borrowed from the whites.</blockquote>

Jonathan Carver's list of purportedly Native American month names was adopted in the 19th century by the [[Improved Order of Red Men]], an all-white U.S. fraternal organization. They called the month of January "Cold moon", the rest being Snow, Worm, Plant, Flower, Hot, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Travelling, Beaver and Hunting moon. They numbered years from the time of [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus's]] arrival in America.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lindsay |first=George |date=1893 |title=Official History of the Improved Order of Red Men |url=https://archive.org/details/officialhistoryo00lindiala |location=Boston |publisher=The Fraternity Publishing Company |page=251}}</ref>

In ''The American Boy's Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols'' (1918), [[Daniel Carter Beard]] wrote: "The Indians' Moons naturally vary in the different parts of the country, but by comparing them all and striking an average as near as may be, the moons are reduced to the following."<ref>{{cite book |last=Beard |first=Daniel Carter |date=1918 |title= The American boys' book of signs, signals and symbols |url= https://archive.org/details/americanboysbook00bear5/page/78/mode/2up |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Lippincott  |page=79 }}</ref> He then gave a list that had two names for each lunar month, again quite different from earlier lists that had been published.

The 1937 ''Maine Farmers' Almanac'' published a list of full moon names that it said "were named by our early English ancestors as follows":<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.projectpluto.com/bluemoon.htm | title=Rules for determining Blue Moons }}</ref>

{{Poem quote|Winter Moons: Moon after Yule, Wolf Moon, Lenten Moon
Spring Moons: Egg Moon, Milk Moon, Flower Moon
Summer Moons: Hay Moon, Grain Moon, Fruit Moon
Fall Moons: Harvest Moon, Hunter's Moon, Moon before Yule}}

It also mentioned [[blue moon]]. These were considered in some quarters to be Native American full moon names, and some were adopted by [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial Americans]].<ref name=telegraph-20201104>{{cite news |title=Full moon dates for 2020, including November's Beaver Moon |date=4 November 2020 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/0/full-moon-dates-when-uk-2020-november-beaver/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105014448/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/0/full-moon-dates-when-uk-2020-november-beaver/ |archive-date=5 November 2020 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref> The ''[[Farmers' Almanac]]'' (since 1955 published in Maine, but not the same publication as the ''Maine Farmers' Almanac'') continues to print such names.<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = https://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-dates-and-times
 |title        = Full Moon Names and Their Meanings
 |work         = [[Farmers' Almanac]]
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 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20071005085525/http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |title      = Full Moons: What's in a Name?
 |work      = [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]
 |url      = http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/full-moon-article/
 |access-date      = 12 January 2012
 |archive-date      = 20 January 2012
 |archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20120120105528/http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/full-moon-article/
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Such names have gained currency in [[American folklore]]. They appeared in print more widely outside of the almanac tradition from the 1990s in popular publications about the Moon.
''Mysteries of the Moon'' by Patricia Haddock ("Great Mysteries Series", Greenhaven Press, 1992) gave an extensive list of such names along with the individual tribal groups they were supposedly associated with.<ref>repeated in ''The Moon Book'' by Kim Long (1998:[https://books.google.com/books?id=e6-ddrk3nxsC&pg=PA102 102ff.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409161852/https://books.google.com/books?id=e6-ddrk3nxsC&pg=PA102 |date=2023-04-09 }}) Also in ''Llewellyn's 1996 Moon Sign Book'' (1995)</ref> Haddock supposes that certain "Colonial American" moon names were adopted from [[Algonquian languages]] (which were formerly spoken in the territory of New England), while others are based in European tradition (e.g. the Colonial American names for the May moon, "Milk Moon", "Mother's Moon", "Hare Moon" have no parallels in the supposed native names, while the name of November, "Beaver Moon" is supposedly based in an Algonquian language). Many other names have been reported.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://americanindian.net/moons.html | title=Indian Moons, Days & Other Calendar Stuff }}</ref>

These have passed into modern mythology, either as full-moon names, or as names for lunar months. Deanna J. Conway's ''Moon Magick: Myth & Magick, Crafts & Recipes, Rituals & Spells'' (1995) gave as headline names for the lunar months (from January): Wolf, Ice, Storm, Growing, Hare, Mead, Hay, Corn, Harvest, Blood, Snow, Cold.<ref name="magick">{{cite book |last=Conway |first=D.J.|date=1995 |title=Moon Magick |url=https://archive.org/details/moonmagickmythma0000conw |location=St Paul, Minn.|publisher=Llewellyn Publications|isbn=978-1-56718-167-8 }}</ref> Conway also gave multiple alternative names for each month, e.g. the first lunar month after the [[winter solstice]] could be called the Wolf, Quiet, Snow, Cold, Chaste or Disting Moon, or the Moon of Little Winter.{{r|"magick"|page=19}} For the last lunar month Conway offered the names Cold, Oak or Wolf Moon, or Moon of Long Nights, Long Night's Moon, Aerra Geola (Month Before Yule), Wintermonat (Winter Month), Heilagmanoth (Holy Month), Big Winter Moon, Moon of Popping Trees.{{r|"magick"|page=247}} Conway did not cite specific sources for most of the names she listed, but some have gained wider currency as full-moon names, such as Pink Moon for a full moon in April, {{r|"magick"|page=77}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/pink.html | title=Pink Moon | date=13 January 2025 }}</ref> Long Night's Moon for the last in December<ref>{{cite news |last=Dance |first=Scott |date=23 December 2015 |title=''Long Night's Moon'' comes on Christmas for first time since 1977 |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bal-wx-long-nights-moon-comes-on-christmas-for-first-time-since-1977-20151222-story.html |access-date=23 December 2015 |archive-date=4 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704111741/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bal-wx-long-nights-moon-comes-on-christmas-for-first-time-since-1977-20151222-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Ice Moon for the first full moon of January or February.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wolf Moon is the full moon in January |website=timeanddate.com |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/wolf.html |access-date=2018-01-26 |archive-date=2018-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202135615/https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/wolf.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Hindu full moon festivals===
{{See also|Purnima}}

In Hinduism, most festivals are celebrated on auspicious days. Many Hindu festivals are celebrated on days with a full moon night, called the ''purnima''. Different parts of India celebrate the same festival with different names, as listed below:

# Chaitra Purnima&nbsp;– Gudi Padua, [[Ugadi]], [[Hanuman Jayanti]] (15 April 2014)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.drikpanchang.com/purnima/chaitra/chaitra-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | title=2014 Chaitra Purnima &#124; Chaitra Pournami date for Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | access-date=2014-08-13 | archive-date=2017-06-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610171402/http://www.drikpanchang.com/purnima/chaitra/chaitra-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | url-status=live }}</ref>
# Vaishakha Purnima&nbsp;– [[Narasimha Jayanti]], [[Vesak|Buddha Jayanti]] (14 May 2014)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.drikpanchang.com/purnima/vaishakha/vaishakha-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | title=2014 Vaishakha Purnima &#124; Vaishakha Pournami date for Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | access-date=2014-08-13 | archive-date=2017-06-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610180336/http://www.drikpanchang.com/purnima/vaishakha/vaishakha-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | url-status=live }}</ref>
# Jyeshtha Purnima&nbsp;– [[Savitri Vrata]], [[Vat Purnima]] (8 June 2014)<ref name="india">{{Cite web | url=http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/guru-purnima/guru-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | title=2014 Guru Purnima &#124; Vyasa Purnima Puja Date and Time for Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | access-date=2014-08-13 | archive-date=2017-06-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610175348/http://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/guru-purnima/guru-purnima-date-time.html?year=2014 | url-status=live }}</ref>
# Ashadha Purnima&nbsp;– [[Guru Purnima]], Vyasa Purnima
# Shravana Purnima&nbsp;–  [[Upanayana]] ceremony, [[Upakarma|Avani Avittam]], [[Raksha Bandhan]], [[Onam]]
# Bhadrapada Purnima&nbsp;– Start of [[Pitru Paksha]], [[Madhu Purnima]]
# Ashvin Purnima&nbsp;– [[Sharad Purnima]]
# [[Kartik Poornima|Kartika Purnima]]&nbsp;– [[Karthikai Deepam]], Thrukkarthika
# Margashirsha Purnima&nbsp;– [[Thiruvathira]], [[Datta Jayanti|Dattatreya Jayanti]]
# Pushya Purnima&nbsp;– [[Thaipusam]], [[Shakambhari Purnima]]
# [[Magha Purnima]]
# Phalguna Purnima&nbsp;– [[Holi]]