Moonlight Hare

Image: Artist unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Hare and Pink Moon
• Harvest Moon
• The Hare and the Moon
• Hare and Full Moon
• Rising Moon
• Over the Moon
• Moonlight Hare (2019)
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare

Harvest Moon

Artwork: Catherine Hyde.

See also the previous posts:
• Up With the Larks
• Hare and Swallows
• White Hare Over Water
• Into the Dark Woods
• Maximum Significance
• An Extraordinary and Ancient Archetype

Hare and Pink Moon

Artwork: Source.

See also the previous posts:
• The Hare and the Moon
• Hare and Full Moon
• Rising Moon
• Over the Moon
• Moonlight Hare
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare

Hare and Full Moon

Image: Photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• The Hare and the Moon
• Rising Moon
• Over the Moon
• Moonlight Hare
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare

Rising Moon

Art: Catherine Hyde.

See also the previous posts:
• Over the Moon
• Moonlight Hare
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare
• The Hare and the Moon

Stained Glass Hare

Image: Artist and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Wild and Clever, Bold and Free
• The Hare and the Moon

Mystical Hare Art on Reclaimed Oak

Image: A. Hammond.

See also the previous posts:
• Running Hare – March 9, 2010
• Hare Décor – August 22, 2019
• Magical Creatures
• The Hare and the Moon

Christmas Hare and Moon

Image: Artist unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Christmas Hare (2019)
• Hare in Moonlight
• Winter Hare
• In Winter Field
• Inspiring and Intriguing

Over the Moon

Image: “Hare Jumped Over the Moon” by Eileen Turner.

See also the previous posts:
• April Hare Moon
• Moonlight Hare
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare

April Hare Moon

Art: “April Hare Moon” by Christopher Fry.

Hare Décor

Image: Green Man Ceramics.

See also the previous posts:
• The Hare and the Moon
• Lunar Deity
• The Hare on the Moon
• Moon-Struck

Moonlight Hare

Art: Penny Gaj.

See also the previous posts:
• The Hare and the Moon
• Lunar Deity
• The Hare on the Moon
• Moon-Struck

Hare Décor

See also the previous posts:
• Hare Décor, 4/20/18
• Hare Décor 7/28/17
• Hare Décor, 1/25/17
• Hare Décor, 4/6/15
• Hare Décor, 12/13/12

Artwork: Artist unknown.

A Super Blue Blood Moon

Writes Jesse Emspak of Space.com:

Skywatchers are in for a rare treat tomorrow (Jan. 31): a Blue Moon, a total lunar eclipse and a supermoon all at the same time! It's the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first Blue Moon Blood Moon visible from the U.S. since 1866!

A Blue Moon is when two full moons happen in the same calendar month; lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth's shadow; and supermoons happen when the moon's perigee — its closest approach to Earth in a single orbit — coincides with a full moon. In this case, the supermoon also happens to be the day of the lunar eclipse.

The first full moon of January occurred on the night of Jan. 1 or the morning of Jan. 2, depending on your location. The second full moon and the lunar eclipse will occur on the night of Jan. 31 or the morning of Feb. 1. And the supermoon will take place on the night of Jan. 30, which is technically one day before the moon reaches peak fullness, but even NASA is willing to call the event a supermoon nonetheless.

Image: "Hare Moon Halo" by Wendy Andrew.

See also the previous posts:
• Lunar Deity
• The Hare and the Moon
• Moon-Struck
• The Hare on the Moon

Moon Dance

Image: Moondance" by Maggie Vandewalle.

See also the previous posts:
• Moongazer
• The Moon and the Hare
• Moon Hare
• Moon-Struck
• Hare and Moon
• In the Light of the Moon
• Hare Moon
• The Hare on the Moon

Moongazer

Image: Maggie Vandewalle.


See also the previous posts:
• The Moon and the Hare
• Moon Hare
• Moon-Struck
• Hare and Moon
• In the Light of the Moon
• Hare Moon
• The Hare on the Moon

All is Enchanted

Image: "And She Saw in His Eyes That All Was Enchanted Between Earth and Sky" by Karen Davis.

Hare in Moonlight

Image: Sally Mitchell (from her Wildlife Christmas Collection).

Moon Hare

Image: "Moon Hare" by Rachel Toll, a watercolour artist based in Devon. Says Toll: "I love painting and gain inspiration from the landscapes, wildlife, the coasts of Devon and Cornwall."

The Self-Sacrificing Hare

Writes Simon Carnell in Hare:

In India, in one of the Jataka stories reputed to have been told by the Buddha himself, Bodhisattva is born in one of his incarnations as a hare. In this form he preaches to several other animals the necessity of giving alms, and when they are visited by the god Sakka in the form of a hungry Brahmin, each of them offers food. But only the hare does so in an appropriate form, following the law that no life should be destroyed. He not only offers to sacrifice himself by leaping into a fire, but shakes his body three times to rid it of any creatures living in his fur. The offer is declined but, as a reward for his virtue, the incident is commemorated by the god by painting the hare's image on the moon. In another version the hare begins to carefully pick the insects from his fur in preparation for his death, and in a Sri Lankan version it is the Buddha himself who meets the self-sacrificing hare, rescues him from the fire and puts him on the moon.


Image: Takagi Haruyama (1850).