Chant at the Moon Night!
While Chant at the Moon Day may have been inspired by the cherry harvest, we are unwilling to fully turn the entire twenty-four hours over to them.
For one thing, supposedly cherries are sweeter when harvested around the full moon. This year, 2023, the first August full moon was on August 1, and it was a supermoon, because it was less than twenty-four hours before the perigee, when the Moon is closest to the Earth. That was two weeks ago.
And the next full moon will be August 30, a Blue Moon because it will be the second in the month, and another supermoon. So, we would submit that those would be the better days to harvest sweet cherries, if indeed full moons are the time for sweetness.
But cherries are not the only things that respond to the Moon. And the full moon is not the only remarkable phase of the lunar cycle.
In fact, tomorrow is the new moon, and it will be invisible when it passes between the Earth and the Sun. And this, we feel, is the appropriate moment to chant at the Moon. Cherries or no cherries.
And it will happen at night.
So, we are dubbing this Chant at the Moon Night.