Under the blue moon…I’ve said that without thinking, attaching the meaning to the first word rather then to the expression…last days passed in half-slumber when you feel like sleeping inside a crystal box, seeing what’s outside, yet not blending in it…
Something pricked in the backside and - opsss - awaken we are…it was good back there, behind the glass, "under the blue moon"…[~sighs]..sometimes when you don’t speak for some time, familiar words take strange shapes, sound not in their true meaning, give away some other impression…I said “blue moon”, stressing blue in it, and now it feels like it is meant to have another meaning. Asked Google…and - là vous allez – apparently, there is such thing as blue moon, a very real thing. And sure enough, I’ve used the expression in the totally wrong meaning. Oh well, live and learn... now it might be that it was only me, who didn’t know that simple astronomical fact, but at least I’m not embarrassed to admit I didn’t know it. And that I do know now :-)
According to the more recent definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall within the same month. Some years have an extra full moon—thirteen instead of twelve. A year with a thirteenth moon skewed the calendar, since there were names for only twelve moons. By identifying the extra, thirteenth moon as a blue moon, the ecclesiastical calendar was able to stay on track. Over the next twenty years there will be a total of 17 blue moons. No blue moon of any kind will occur in the years 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2017.
So really there is no justified reason to stay under blue moon, according to the stars...hmmm...perhaps, I should look for the moon of different colour instead. ;-)
Something pricked in the backside and - opsss - awaken we are…it was good back there, behind the glass, "under the blue moon"…[~sighs]..sometimes when you don’t speak for some time, familiar words take strange shapes, sound not in their true meaning, give away some other impression…I said “blue moon”, stressing blue in it, and now it feels like it is meant to have another meaning. Asked Google…and - là vous allez – apparently, there is such thing as blue moon, a very real thing. And sure enough, I’ve used the expression in the totally wrong meaning. Oh well, live and learn... now it might be that it was only me, who didn’t know that simple astronomical fact, but at least I’m not embarrassed to admit I didn’t know it. And that I do know now :-)
According to the more recent definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall within the same month. Some years have an extra full moon—thirteen instead of twelve. A year with a thirteenth moon skewed the calendar, since there were names for only twelve moons. By identifying the extra, thirteenth moon as a blue moon, the ecclesiastical calendar was able to stay on track. Over the next twenty years there will be a total of 17 blue moons. No blue moon of any kind will occur in the years 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2017.
So really there is no justified reason to stay under blue moon, according to the stars...hmmm...perhaps, I should look for the moon of different colour instead. ;-)