The sixth full moon of the year is known as the Strawberry Moon according to the teachings of the 13 Grandmother Moons and the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition where the naming of the moons also has a cultural teaching that explains the cycle of life and nature within the Indigenous cultures of Turtle
Island.
The medicine of the strawberry is reconciliation. It was during this moon cycle that communities usually held their annual feasts, welcoming everyone home, regardless of their differences over the past year, and letting go of judgment and/or self-righteousness.
“The strawberry speaks to truth,” says Elder Duke Redbird, “and the most interesting thing about the strawberry is that it’s the only fruit with its seeds on its surface and it reminds us that we are the seeds of Mother Earth. They are self-propagating and they are self-fertilizing and they are the gift of the Creator
to Mother Earth and to the human beings,” he adds.
The full moon will reach its peak at 9:08pm EDT.
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