Yahoo! Mail - bcpatenterprisesinc@yahoo.com: "'I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.' ~ Madonna"

"The Egyptians worshipped the cat as a symbol of the moon,
not only because it is more active after sunset,
but from the dilation and contraction of its pupil,
symbolical of the waxing and waning of the night-goddess.
- Brewer, 'Dictionary of Phrase & Fable'"

Tomorrow, we are bringing Cloud('s ashes) home to a place of honour that she, my trusted familiar deserves.

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year. Today is the Full Strawberry Moon. This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!