Howling at the moon

I wasn't too expectant today to welcome in the 1st New moon of 2026, it had been a miserable day of cold wintery showers, cloudy skies; but as I rose from a late afternoon snooze in the bath. Drip drying, I gazed out of the bedroom window, Oh my days, rushed downstairs, tackle bouncing joyously around, bubbly footprints on the carpet (oh the joys of living alone), back upstairs gripping my weapon, over excited, having a fiddle on the way, (behave! with the settings).

Above the roof tops in the NE sky of the Northern Hemisphere, the wiccan goddess Diana rises to begin her journey across the firmament to sleep again in the south,

Low in the sky she has a more yellow or orangish hue, compared to when she rides high overhead, providing light and comfort for the night traveller and the creatures who live in the shadows .

The first full moon, known as the wolf moon it has the name steeped in lore from our ancestors.

In mid-winter, the howl of the wolf was often heard outside villages, likely because food was scarce and wolves, who unlike other animals do not hibernate were hunting more actively.

It is also known as a super moon, a grand name but one that is simply a full Moon at the closest point to Earth in its orbit, seemingly making it seem bigger and brighter, but it is not, its size and brightness is constant, the "moon illusion"...unless of course NASA and others concede that the earth is flat.

Jupiter rising in the constellation of Orion, a small sparkle beneath the clouds

What ever your beliefs, that is the last supermoon until November and December 2026.