The 2026 Moon Calendar is a collaboration of two local women: Herbal Wisdom by Brittany Wood Nickerson and Illustrations by Chelsea Granger.
 
This Moon Calendar is designed to help you keep track of and live in harmony with the cycles of the moon. Lunar patterns can influence our body, mind, and spirit. Living in accordance with these tides can help to support our relationship to cycles of growth, creativity, inspiration, rest, and productivity. The Moon Calendar is an excellent way to connect with natural cycles and get to know the phases of the Moon. It is also an excellent place to keep track of your own inner cycles – mapping personal patterns of inspiration, rest, creativity, social nourishment, menstruation, and more alongside the phases of the Moon.
 
The 2026 Moon Calendar draws on the ancient and cross-cultural tradition of naming the full Moons of the year. For this project, we drew on full Moon names from our European ancestry as well as our own experience of the Moon through the seasons. There is a lot of crossover between Moon names and various cultural and ethnic traditions. The origins of some traditional names are difficult to trace – we have done our best to follow the threads of origins and have also liberally added to the list based on our personal connections to the rituals of our lives, our communities, and the seasons as we experience them.
 
Within this long-standing tradition there is ample room for you to offer names to the Moon’s phases as well. You can name the full Moons or any other phase in the cycle that you connect with. We consider this practice an act of reverence and gratitude, an ode to our relationship with the more than human world and our place in the cycle of life.
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Text from the Poster:
The life cycle pulses all around us, animating the world as we know it. We experience this as a rhythm – our belonging at once firmly planted in the moment and inseparable from the grandeur and grace of the web of life. The Moon’s phases have always provided a way for humans to mark the experience of being alive, mirroring the seasons and the activities that accompany them. Such cyclical life and community rituals have led to the naming of the full Moons of the year. While this is a practice of peoples around the world, we pull names here from our European ancestry and our own experience as seasonal beings, bound in awe and reciprocity to the rituals of time and the places we call home.
Moon names are traditionally given to full Moons, but any phase of the Moon can be named, just as each of us can name the full Moon based on our experiences of being alive. There are 13 full Moons in a solar year; about once a year, there are two full Moons in a month, this is called a Blue Moon.
*Traditional European full Moon names are from Celtic or Old English origin.
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13 x 19 inch poster.
Note: 13 x 19 is a standard frame size.