Teen Wolf writers made the moon full whenever they wanted to science be damned.
So sometimes the moon is full every two weeks.
I did some of the math with seasons one and two way back when and found that the full
moon came every 16 to 20 days in the Teen Wolf universe.
Still, there were key moons on the show that coincide with the ancient lunar naming system
and make for an interesting subtext to the show.
This correlation actually started with the very first episode.
Jeff Davis called it Wolf Moon, which is the traditional name of the full moon in January.
According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the Wolf Moon marks the time of year that the
howling of wolves was often heard.
It was traditionally thought that wolves howl due to hunger, but we now know it's to define
territory, locate pack members, reinforce social bonds and gather up for hunting.
In the Teen Wolf universe,
this was when Peter Hale was hunting around for his first pack member.
He thought he'd found one when he bit Scott McCall, that didn't turn out quite like he
planned though.
Next in February, the almanac says we get the snow moon.
I'm sure you can guess why, but here's what they say about it.
February is typically a time of heavy snow.
Yep.
In season one of Teen Wolf, the full snow moon coincided with episodes eight through 10.
There was no actual snow in the fictional Northern California, but that period did include
the Beacon Hills High School winter formal.
Then about two weeks later in Teen Wolf time, we had another full moon in February.
It was the night Jackson filmed his transformation into the kanima in season two, episode two.
Now, whenever there are two full moons in one month, they call that a blue moon.
those are supposed to happen once every two to three years.
But again, The writers on Teen Wolf
if they wanted a full moon, they just wrote a full moon.
We're here for the party.
Well, come on in.
Following pretty quickly after the blue moon, again, about two weeks later, we got the March
full moon on Lydia's birthday. Here, Peter Hale summed up the Almanac definition of what
they call a worm moon.
They call it that because it's the last full moon of winter and the worms would literally
crawl out of the earth as it thawed.
Indeed, the Almanac says the worm moon was traditionally thought to be named after the
earth worms of warming spring soil.
In Teen Wolf, the worm moon marked Peter Hale emerging from the soil of his grave.
Now we didn't get to see spring and summer moons on teen Wolf because the vast majority
of episodes took place in the autumn and winter.
So we don't get to cover the pink moon, the flower moon, the strawberry moon, or the buck
moon. That brings us to the end of summer and the beginning of autumn and in all honesty,
the symbolism of the full moon of August doesn't really match up with anything in the episodes.
Yeah.
So August is the sturgeon moon it's named after a fish because they were apparently
easy to catch during this full moon.
So again, no symbolism here, but the sturgeon full moon came during the beginning of season
three when Boyd and Cora escaped the bank vault and went nuts in the woods during episodes
two and three.
Moving quickly away from the ugly fish month and into September and the harvest moon here,
we have a return to symbolism as this full moon corresponds.
With the time of harvesting.
In Teen Wolf, we saw the first harvest moon in season three, episode 12 as Jennifer Blake
was reaping the alpha pack.
I thinkthe symbolism is obvious here.
Finally, we're up to October and the October full moon is called the Hunter's Moon.
According to the Almanac.
this is the month when the game is fattened up for winter.
And now is the time for hunting and laying in a store of provisions for the long months
ahead.
There is some symbolism in the hunting aspect on the full moon during season three, episode
14, Scott and his pack were all out hunting for a fully transformed Melia.
It was a race against time as her adoptive father was trying to kill her since he didn't
know it was her.