I have been completly fascinated by the moon since I was a child. With age, the fascination and wonder only grew with me. Therefore, I had to have this sight on my page, not only for my own self gratification, but for all the other "lunatics" out there.

On this page you will find how the different phases of the moon affect us, a guide to the full and new Moon dates for 2004 and even some interesting Moon lore.

Moon tables for 2007

*Denotes a Blue Moon

Full Moon wish spell-At night,when the moon is full, go outside with a glass of juice. Look up at the moon and tell it exactly what you desire. {Do this in full detail and don't leave anything out.} When you are done, lift your glass in toast to the moon and say:

Pour the juice on the ground and know that your wish will be granted.

Luck-changing Chant-When nothing seems to go your way, go outdoors on a night when the moon is waxing. Then call on Selene, the Goddess of the Night and the Moon,by saying:

Blow a kiss to the moon, and know that everything will be alright.

"If the moon holds water it will be dry . If water from it can leak rain is nigh."

"When the moon lies on her back, she sucks the wet into her lap."

"The shape of the new moon is a rain indicator. It can be holding water or pouring it out. If it is lying on its back, it's holding onto the water- no rain. It the moon is facing down the water can pour out- meaning rain."

"When halo rings the moon or sun Rain's approaching on the run." This is a favorite saying of fishermen, who use a halo around the moon as an indicator of fishing conditions.

"have you ever seen a fairy ring? A fairy ring in a field or lawn beside a house was believed to bring good fortune. Harm was believed to come to a cow that stepped within the circle or ate its grass. It was also thought that you would become enchanted if you entered a fairy ring during a full moon.

"The moon has endured more than anyone can know." -Maddy, in FOXFIRE the book

"Then the noise faded and Legs squinted up at the sky, the moon so bright you'd never think it could be merely rock like the earth's common rock and lifeless, merely reflected light from an invisible sun and not a powerful living light of its own..." -Maddy

"If I was the moon, I'd feel bad. We never write. We never call. And we certainly don't come for a visit anymore." -James Lileks

"The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest." -Sappho

" "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas." -Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman

"Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon" -Walter de la Mare Silver

"Dancin' in the moonlight everybody feelin' warm, and right it's such a fine and natural sight everybody's dancin' in the moonlight" -King Harvest, "Dancin' in the Moonlight"

"Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving? Over the sea. Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving? All that love me." -Richard Monckton Milnes

"They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon." -Edward Lear, "The Owl and the Pussycat"

"Her shape arises, She is less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever, ...nothing is conceal'd from her ...she is the most belov'd ...she is silent--" -Walt Whitman

"Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, Tomorrow be today." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"That orbed maiden With white fire laden Whom mortals call the Moon" -Percy Bythe Shelley, "The Cloud"

"I see the moon, The moon sees me God bless the moon, And God bless me." -A nursery rhyme

"As long as the moon shall rise As long as the river shall flow As long as the sun shall shine As long as the grass shall grow" -Native American prayer

"Been looking up, the moon she's so bright She's so white, she's so clean I'm telling you, she's everything" -PJ Harvey

"The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave a luster of midday to objects below." -Clement C. Moore (supposedly), "A Visit From Saint Nick"

"And all the while, the moon was shining, And with its feeble rays outlining Tatyana's graceful, pallid air, Her flowing tears, her loosened hair And there, reclining in a cranny, Before her youthful charge's eyes, Wrapped in a jacket twice her size, And capped with scarf, sat gray-haired Nanny. The whole room shimmered in a trance Beneath the moonbeam's silent dance." -A. Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Johnston's translation)

"Pity me not the waning of the moon, Or that the ebbing tide goes out to sea, Or that a man's desire is hushed so soon, And you no longer look with love on me." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon Who is already sick and pale with grief That though, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid since she envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off." -Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, 2:2:4

"O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb..." -Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, 2:2:115

"The Church says the earth is flat, but I know that it's round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." -Ferdinand Magellan

""Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?" -the Joker

"Under the full moon life is all adventure

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