April's Full Moon of Budding

In the northern hemisphere, this is the moon of Earth awakening, of wild creatures emerging from hibernation and birds returning, of new life, planting and blossoming, of green things springing from the ground beneath our winter weary feet. April is the month in which the Gautama Buddha was born and in which he became enlightened underneath his sheltering bodhi tree at Bodhgaya, India, and in many cultures, the April moon is known simply as the "Buddha's Moon".

We also know this moon by many other names, but almost each and every moon name sings of creation, return and renewal, good words for this greening time of year, this season of change in which we too are awakening. In my mind's eye I can see us, emerging from our many cocoons and taking to the air together in a wild rhapsodic dance which celebrates Life, journeying, the Old Wild Mother and the slowly turning cosmos around us. . . .

Ashes Moon, Awakening Moon, Big Spring Moon, Big Summer Moon, Black Oaks Tassel Moon, Broken Snowshoe Moon, Budding Time Moon, Budding Trees Moon, Bullhead Moon, Cherry Blossom Moon, Corn Planting Moon, Daisy Moon, Egg Moon, Moon, Fish Moon, Flower Moon, Fourth moon, Frog Moon, Grass Moon, Gray Goose Moon, Great Sand Storm Moon, Green Grass Moon, Growing Moon, Half Spring Moon, Hare Moon, Ice Breaking in the River Moon, Leaf Split Moon, Loon Moon, Maple Sap Boiling Moon, Moon of Greening Grass, Moon of Red Grass Appearing, Moon of the Big Leaves, Moon of Windbreak, Moon When Geese Return in Scattered Formation, Moon When Nothing Happens, Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs, Moon When They Set Indian Corn, Oestara Moon, Peony Moon, Pink Moon, Planter's Moon, Planting Moon, Poinciana Moon, Red Grass Appearing Moon, Ring-finger Moon, Seed Moon, Snowshoe Breaking Moon, Spring Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Strawberry Moon, Strong Moon, Sugar Maker Moon, Summer Moon, Sweet Pea Moon, Sxánel Moon, Tulip Moon, White Lady Moon, Wildcat Moon, Willow Moon, Wind Moon, Wisteria Moon, Yellow Moon