{"id":7870,"date":"2025-10-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=7870"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:48:05","slug":"harvest-moon-october-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/harvest-moon-october-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Moon October 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-1536x891.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-06-18.52.07-2048x1188.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harvest Moon (Oct 6th 25) over Canary Wharf from Wapping. (Photo K Flude).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harvest supermoon will rise at 6.20pm, today on October 7th 2025.  It looked pretty full last night from my vantage point in a penthouse flat in Wapping.  A supermoon is a full moon that occurs when the distance between the Earth and the Moon are at their minimum. So it is bigger and brighter and even more magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is known as the Harvest Moon or the Hunter&#8217;s moon for fairly obvious reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is definitely the time to play my favourite song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2MtEsrcTTs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=RDn2MtEsrcTTs\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out about the Moon Goddess Selena see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/december-8th-the-oak-moon\/\">my post on the Oak Moon in December<\/a> and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/february-6th-10th-selene\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Posting on October 7th, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvest supermoon will rise at 6.20pm, today on October 7th 2025. It looked pretty full last night from my vantage point in a penthouse flat in Wapping. A supermoon is a full moon that occurs when the distance between the Earth and the Moon are at their minimum. So it is bigger and brighter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/harvest-moon-october-7th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harvest Moon October 7th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,116,377,321,118,115,23,324,4,16,375,712,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-calendar","category-classical","category-europe","category-events","category-folklore","category-heritage","category-history","category-london","category-modern","category-mythology","category-science","category-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harvest Moon October 7th - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Harvest moon. 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