2026 Moon Calendar

Herbal Wisdom by Brittany Wood Nickerson Illustrations by Chelsea Granger The 2026 Moon Calendar draws on the ancient and cross-cultural tradition of naming the full Moons of the year. For this project, we drew on full Moon names from our European ancestry as well as our own experience of the Moon through the seasons. There is a lot of crossover between Moon names and various cultural and ethnic traditions. The origins of some traditional names are difficult to trace - we have done our best to follow the threads of origins and have also liberally added to the list based on our personal connections to the rituals of our lives, our communities, and the seasons as we experience them. Text from the poster: The life cycle pulses all around us, animating the world as we know it. We experience this as a rhythm – our belonging at once firmly planted in the moment and inseparable from the grandeur and grace of the web of life. The Moon’s phases have always provided a way for humans to mark the experience of belonging at once firmly planted in the moment and inseparable from the grandeur and grace of the web of life. The Moon’s phases have always provided a way for humans to mark the experience of being alive, mirroring the seasons and the activities that accompany them. Such cyclical life and community rituals have led to the naming of the full Moons of the year. While this is a practice of peoples around the world, we pull names here from our European ancestry and our own experience as seasonal beings, bound in awe and reciprocity to the rituals of time and the places we call home. Moon names are traditionally given to full Moons, but any phase of the Moon can be named, just as each of us can name the full Moon based on our experiences of being alive. There are 13 full Moons in a solar year; about once a year, there are two full Moons in a month, this is called a Blue Moon.

*Traditional European full Moon names are from Celtic or Old English origin. 13 x 19-inch poster (standard frame size).