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 - the creators have done their 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.