The Full ‘Buck Moon’ Will Join Dual Meteor Showers and Pluto to Grace the Night Sky in July

Thunderstorms. Jumping salmon. The kingly crowns of buck antlers. For Native Americans in precolonial times, these meant summer. Throughout history, human communities have mapped rhythms of the seasons with cycles of the moon. Long before digital calendars existed, some Native American tribes called July’s lunation cycle the “Buck Moon,” tracking the time of year by […]