If you’re anything like me, then you can always imagine the moon changing colors whenever you hear someone use the phrase, « Once in a blue moon. » Sadly, it’s just an idiom describing the rarity of an occasion, but that doesn’t make its meaning less…
If you’re anything like me, then you can always imagine the moon changing colors whenever you hear someone use the phrase, « Once in a blue moon. » Sadly, it’s just an idiom describing the rarity of an occasion, but that doesn’t make its meaning less significant. The next blue moon will take place around summertime next year, and here’s everything you need to know. There are a series of astronomical insights that fully describe the logistics of a blue moon, but it’s most commonly known as the second full moon that occurs during one calendrical month in a year. In addition to the auspiciousness of it being « blue, » this celestial occurrence takes place approximately every 2.7 years. The phrase « blue moon » is also used to describe what occurs when there are four full moons in one season — the third of the series is a blue moon. Blue moons happen, well… once in a blue moon, but you already knew that.
