October 08, 2005
October
It is the tenth month of the year and fall has arrived in all its red-gold splendor. How we love that buttery sunshine, the sweetly warm days and crisp nights. In my area, we've had our first hard frost. The pumpkins are piled high among sheaves of corn stalks, gourds and chrysanthemums in bloom.
The Farmer's Almanac, drawing on the Algonquin tradition, calls October the month of the Full Hunter's Moon. "With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean."
The Lakota name is Canwapekasna Wi–the Moon of Falling Leaves.