January 05, 2006
January Moon
First month of the year is called Canapopa Wi in the Lakota tradition, meaning Wood Popping. Farmer's Almanac tells us that many Native Indian tribes in America call January's moon the "Full Wolf Moon" because the hungry wolf packs howled outside their villages in the deep, treacherous snows of mid-winter. Other names are the Old Moon and the Full Snow Moon, although most tribes used that name for what we now call February.