Editorial Director
SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt
editorial Director http://www.space.com/ Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET
But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. continue. . .
"It is 2010 and America writes, thinks, and acts as if the hundreds of sovereign nations within the United States do not exist, and speak in past tense about Indians this and Indians that. Walking home last night the moon called me in a loud distinctive voice. I looked up as I came out of the subway into the face of a large moon waving clouds from her face as she focused her attention on me. I smiled thinking of the number of times I have sat in the forest, alone, in front of a fire comforted by our relationship and the many secrets she has shared with me all the years of my life. The moon teaches from the darkness when she isn’t visible to the eye, and as a young man trying to learn how she set time she taught my spirit guiding my body through the dark forest teeming with wildlife through the veils layering the dark with revelations, and enticing stories that pulled me beyond my fears into the darkest places to sit still, alone.
The moon has relationship with the Indians Americans learn to not see. Our ancestors still dance in the cold nights of this moon. Because Americans cannot hear the dances continue along the circles of original intent to balance the Earth, and her life forms." -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of the Sacred Medicine Wheel
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