Ahem, pardon me, but wouldn't that be the "2nd
full moon"?
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It seems the modern definition of a Blue Moon is a convenience, and the original definition was somewhat different:
What's a Blue Moon?
The name itself wasn't originally "blue" but "belewe", from the Old English, which had a double meaning as the colour and as "betrayer" (
More here):
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
In calculating the dates for Lent and Easter, Catholic clergy identified a Lenten moon. Historically, when the moons arrived too early, they called the early moon a betrayer (belewe) moon, so the Lenten moon came at its expected time.
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I now feel satisfied that I qualify as a "lunartic".
