Tonight's full moon rises just eight days before the vernal equinox, or Spring.
The full moon of March is known as the Worm Moon because it happens when temperatures rise and the earthworms
start to reappear, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. It was also called the Sap Moon, as it often coincided with when the maple trees could be tapped to make syrup again after a long winter of frozen sap.
Celtic people called the March full moon "moon of winds". And according to "A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language"
(Published in 1915), the Choctaw people called it the "big famine", perhaps because it was the season when winter
food stores would start to run low.
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