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Those of us, who are held in awe of the celestial body that is the moon, tend to forget the total sway that graceful and ever present mistress has over our lives. But, ever since we've been able to look up and out from the Earth, some have forgotten her... and we all know the dangers of upsetting powerful women. Luna affects the oceans, and thus some of us owe to her our lively hood, she creates the natual tides that abides the seas. With out her effects, more than likely we'd have a cess-pool of refuge and still waters. (remember that the earth rotates in perfect unison, so the rotation of the planet would have little or no effect on the currents of the waves. Only the celestial gravity granted by the proximity of the moon warrents that. Some have even suggested that the moon can alter our mental state and even some others physical state. I can verify the first, not the latter in so much.

Luna has many faces, and here are but a few of them that I have been privy to know.

• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.

• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.

• Full Worm - March Moon As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.

• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.

• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!

• The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.

• Full Sturgeon Moon - August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.

• Full Harvest Moon - September This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.

• Full Hunter's Moon - October With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean.

• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.

• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.

There are other moons, most are simply the same as above, but given specific importance within circles of notable diferences. Some are highly popular, such as the Blood moon, or refered to as a total lunar eclipse holds great reverence in biblical mythology, and with some monor vampire factions., or the Blue moon, which takes place when there are two fulls moons in one month, of cource this occurs only rarely, once every 2 - 3 years in fact, and generally happens in the early part of the year, where feburary can alter the moons lunar cycle due to it's days being less or total to an actual lunar cycle. "Birthing Moons" are special to lycans. who refer to this as the moon where they undergo their first blood change. There are a multitude more moons, too many to list infact, but I pray that I have successfully talked about the more important ones. or ones that you will most commanly some across.

I hope this helped or was at the least informative. If you have any furthur questions please comment them and I will do my best to answer them.

Well, my mothers birthday is past, my stepfathers birthday is past, and the 10 year anniversary of Julias death is past... so now all I have to do is wait till the New year to begin the cycle all over agian. Birthdays, holidays, special events, ect... all these come and go as a marker for time. Why does everyone wish for a new year? A new beginning. Why can't we all simply look to the past and learn from those mistakes we've made?

I know one thing is held evidently true no matter what. I will make a mistake, and I will have to answer for it. Why is everyone always trying so hard to sweep stuff under the rug of tomorrow? I want to declare everything out in the open NOW! I want to make sure that I have the ability, no, the understanding that what I do it either wrong or right...

I am willing to accept that I can't live in the future. I won't make plans for a month ahead, or a week, or even a whole day, because something will invariably occure that will change my plans, and then I will have to make an apology to someone, and I hate apologies. Not that I have a problem with admitting a fault, only I think that if someone catches me in one, thats enough, why lower my self-esteem even more by essentially making me grovel?

It's been about 3 years since I took up the vow to never lie, and with a few exceptions, I have held true to myself. So why is it that on the eve of a new year I feel as if I should call out the world and set things from my past right? I have no reason to want to dig up the past, most people I would need to speak to probably wouldn't with to speak with me, and most won't. It's not that I have these great histories where I have wronged a great many people or even one person to a great degree... except my sons mother, who by some fault of her own has seen it fit to make me the Antagonist in her life.

I don't hold sway over anyones well being, no one will die if I simply close myself off and don't follow through with my plans... So why? I simply can't say, but I do know this. My past is directly tied into my future. I am making new friends out of the ashes of my old friends (figurativly speaking of course) and I am looking, no, longing for a new start. I guess only the two factors that matter, Time, and God will know what lies before me.

Confusion writhes around our hearts impatiently
It drains the faith that lights the dark and sets us free
From the chains of our war and the pain we once called love
The poison of doubt enslaves our minds and we bleed
We abandon the trust that kept us blind and disappear
Under the crimson wings of hate where the lost are safe
Until they love again
The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there
And that hope will be our love's requiem
We pray to the serpent of delight desperately
The questions are answered and we try not to weep
Until we are sure we're suffering for love
In the dungeon of our dreams we're so weak
The promise made to be broken still haunts our sleep
We won't open our eyes afraid we would die for love again

The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there
And that hope will be our love's requiem
The salvation we seek will be waiting us there
In the heart of darkness lonely and scared
With a promise of death for our love
And now that we're free from the chains of our dark love
I'm lost
And now that we're free from the chains of our dark love
I'm lost
The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there
And that hope will be our love's requiem
Take me into your arms and sing me your beautiful song
Hold me until we're one and sing me you're beautiful song
The heart of darkness is hope of finding you there
And that hope will be our love's requiem
Take me into your arms and sing me your beautiful song
Hold me until we're one and sing me you're beautiful song...