05/04/2026
🌗🌝🌗 (2 days late but still interesting)
🌕 THE PINK MOON IS HERE 🌕
Tonight's full moon is the Pink Moon. She is named not for her colour, but for the wild ground phlox, a soft pink flower that blooms each spring across North America, heralding the season's renewal. You may also hear her called the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon, or the Hare Moon. But perhaps most poignantly she is known as the Paschal Moon. This name reminds us of the moon's enduring impact upon spiritual and religious practice, specifically in the Abrahamic traditions.
🕌 Ramadan concluded just two weeks ago on 18th March. The Islamic Hijri calendar counts time purely by the moon. There are 12 lunations a year, with no correction for the solar cycle. This means Ramadan moves forward by roughly 11 days each Gregorian year, cycling through all four seasons over 33 years. In 2026, it was a Ramadan of late winter light.
✡️ Passover / Pesach began at sundown last night on Wednesday 1st April; the 15th of Nisan in the Hebrew lunisolar calendar. Passover is always fixed to the first full moon after the spring equinox. That full moon is this one. Hence the name Paschal Moon.
✝️ Easter Sunday falls this weekend, on 5th April. The date of Easter is calculated by a method called the computus, an ancient algorithm that determines the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon.
These are all ways in which the moon moves the calendars of the Major Abrahamic faiths. 🌕 Why does this matter to us?
Because we live in a world that has almost entirely surrendered its sense of time to the Gregorian calendar. Yet the moon has never stopped marking sacred time. Many languages still carry her memory: in Danish, måned (month) and måne (moon) are the same root. Our dairies are still dated by her cycles. And every spring, she rises over Jerusalem, Mecca, and London alike, pulling at something ancient and luminous in us all.
From us at the College of Psychic Studies we wish you all a luminous Pink Moon.
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[Image: Japanese plum blossoms in moonlight (18th century) vintage ink and color on silk by So Shizan. Original public domain image from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. ]