Thank you. It is always nice to have friendly neighborhood Rocket Scientist.
It is also taking place on the same day as the Summer Solstice... this happens approximately once every 70 years. the next time this will happen (Full Moon on the Solstice) will be in 2094 so it is pretty much (for us here) a once in a lifetime event... Maybe our small kids would see it twice.
It really is a once in a lifetime event. I have been outside, looking at the sky, and saying hello to the Summer. The three planets look great, and the moon is fantastic. I'm fairly sure I will live until I am 120, but 2094 seems like a bit too much to ask for...
I read your post and was wondering, but isn't the full moon in Sagittarius? Memory pills sales are going up in Portugal and Germany.
Strawberry moon did not had a meaning to be, so I looked up on the always helpful Google, "The romantic label was coined by the Algonquin tribes of North America who believed June’s full moon signalled the beginning of the strawberry picking season."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/19/strawberry-moon-coincides-with-summer-solstice-for-first-time-si/ May full moon was also in Sagittarius. Not entirely sure what it means, but my rising sign is Sagittarius, and I have been feeling happy as a lark since some two or three days ago. The full moon is not upsetting me at all, some how, it seems to be having the exact opposite effect.
The night is magical and enchanted here. The sunset was also beautiful, on one side of the house the sun was disappearing into the Atlantic, on the other the moon was rising, and the night was falling.
On the night of the 23 to 24 we will be celebrating Saint John's night, a Christian adaptation of older/pagan times, that was meant to celebrate Summer solstice. Everyone will go out, eat sardines, pork chops, caldo verde, colourfoul paper balloons will be launched, bonfires lit and even jumped. People will walk around the city until the morning breaks, and the most typical neighbourhoods will have several local parties. It is a great night in to enjoy the city and have fun.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. (Marilyn Monroe)