To restate the condition of a full moon, it is when the moon is a completely illuminated disc.

From the ancient times, humans have used the movement of the moon to keep track of the passing year and set schedules for hunting, planting, and harvesting. Ancient cultures the world over have given these full moons names based on the behavior of the plants, animals, or weather during that month, or even to describe a certain activity or event that occurred in that location during that time of the year.

The early indigenous people of this continent, such as the Algonquin tribes living in the northeast did not use calendar months as we know them but kept track of time by observing the passing of the seasons and lunar months occurring throughout the year. Although there was quite a bit of variability, most indigenous people kept track of time by give names to the full moons, defining the year into twelve moons and sometimes adding an additions moon every few years to keep sync with the seasons and annual events.

The full moon names in the following list come in part from the Algonquin tribes whom the colonial settlers first met and became familiar with, even adopting and Americanizing the names for their own purposes. The colonial settlers associated the names with a calendar month but to the Algonquin, the full moon name was associated with the entire lunar month following the appearance of each full moon.

Some feel that if you see your one thousandth full moon, you have lived a very long life. I have determined that the first full moon that occurred in my life was on 25 October 1950 when I was less than one month old. By the end of the year 1950, I had lived through three full moons.

When it arrived, the Sturgeon full moon in August 2022 was my eighth hundred and eighty eighth (888^th) full moon, and for me to live long enough to be alive for 1000 full moons, I must needs live until 30 October 2031, upon which day if my life continues, I will be able to see my personal consecutive 1000^th full moon.

During September 2030, I will have lived to Day 29,221 when I thus have reached eighty years of age. Then, some 397 days after becoming 80 years of age, on Day 29,617 of my life, I will have been blessed to see my 1000^th full moon.

1000 Full Moon = 29,253.59 days, or 708,734.16 hours. YMWV

Another name for the spring time full moon is the Passover moon, one which is determined not by the month, but by the seasons. The date of the Passover moon is the night of the first full moon after the spring equinox, which means that the Passover is on a different day each year.

The celebration of the Passover (Heb., pe′sach; Gr., pa′skha) by the Jews was instituted the evening preceding their Exodus from Egypt. (Exodus 12:17-24) The first Passover was observed about the time of full moon, on the 14th day of Abib in the year 1513 B.C.E (the month name Abib was lager changed to Nisan). This was thereafter to be celebrated annually. (Exodus 12:14)

The month of Abib (Nisan) falls within the months of March-April of the Gregorian calendar. Passover commemorates God′s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt and the passing over of their firstborn when Jehovah destroyed all of the firstborn that belonged to the Egyptians. (Exodus 12:26, 27)

Since the Bible definitely states that Christ is the Passover sacrifice (1 Corinthians 5:7) and that he observed the Passover meal the evening before he was put to death, the date of his death would be Nisan 14, not Nisan 15, in order to fulfill accurately the time feature of the type, or shadow, provided in the Law.

The lord′s evening meal is a literal meal, commemorative of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ; hence, a memorial of his death. This is the only event Scripturally commanded for Christians to memorialized, (1 Corinthians 11:24) thus, it is also properly termed the Memorial of Christ′s Death and is sometimes referred to as the Lord′s supper.