It’s New Year’s Eve and there’s going to be a blue moon tonight. Apparently there was an extra moon cycle in 2009 and that extra moon is called a “blue moon” and it happens… once in a blue moon. The last time it shined on New Year’s Eve was in 1990 and the next time will be in 2028. I’ll be honest; I didn’t know where the expression “once in a blue moon” came from. So, I looked it up.
The term has been around a long time generally meaning “never or an impossibility.” It has nothing to do with the color of the moon, except that “once in a blue moon” the moon appears to be blue. (This is not related to the extra moon cycle but rather the blue-ish tint often accompanies rare environmental events like wildfires or volcanic activity.
Now that we have some history of the phrase, let me ask you the question that I’ve been kicking around.
If the rare blue moon appears, then can I, a person who believes in the creator of the blue moon, open myself to other rarities? In other words, are there people or issues in my life that I have written off as “never or an impossibility?”
If the blue moon is actually not a “never or an impossibility” then maybe there’s hope for the other “never or impossible” things in my life.
