Hoku (March 4, 2015) ... one of the full moons of The Hawaiian Moon Calendar

A chevron of geese flew above us as we prepared to leave the beach. Canadian Geese or Brants? We did not agree.

She is higher in the sky here, and my brilliant in this place

THERE SHE IS! From the hazy sky, and behind the fingers of that yet to leaf tree came Mahina

Hoku Moon is a time when Mahina the moon rises just as the sun is setting.

The evidence of many different kinds of feet is one of the favorite observations I find here at Sunlight Beach.

The inside cove of brackish water where many water fowl love to be year round appeared to have a 'bloom' suggesting that which is happening above (on land) is happening below (in ke kai, the water)

The sky is hazy. The temperature cool, in the mid to low thirties at night.

Scotch Broom ... my least favorite blossom, and inciter of difficult symptoms, is already blossoming. 'Aue.

Laukahi (Plantain) is freshly greening in the parking lot of the public access

We drove to Sunlight Beach not far from our home in the woods of Langley. A few friends joined us for Mahina's rise. Hoku is considered by some Hawaiian Lunar practitioners as the full moon. There are more than one arrangements of the Hawaiian calendar, and therefore, many ways to count the phases. According to the opening notes in Kealopiko's Moon Phase Project journal "At least 34 different historical arrangements of Hawaiian lunar months have been discovered." Our teachers have been very generous in their remembering and naming of the lunar phases. And, for Pete and me "Hoku" is pretty full though if you look very closely on a Hoku night there is a very slight missing light in her left-hand lower corner. But, hey, look at her for yourself and decide.

It was a wonderful evening of unexpected conversation, accidents, appreciations and observations. We met two new neighbors and joined old friends; observed the return of one of my favorite healing herbs; noted the very early arrival of my least favorite flowering 'invader'; and spent more time with the very brilliant Mahina.

If the skies are willing we will travel the short distance out of the woods and to the South Whidbey Tilth land to view the Mahealani Moon tonight. 

What are you seeing on these full moons?