Harvest Moon & Super Moon - Purattasi Pournami 2025 - அண்டந் திருமால் அகைப்பு.

Today  6-10-2025   is Purattasi Pournami .. .. Sri Parthasarathi Perumal had siriya  mada veethi purappadu.  Pournami, full moon is extremely attractive !

 

Our celestial satellite (moon) is  approximately 248,548 miles (400,000km) from Earth. The Moon orbits Earth in a sightly elliptical orbit, which means our satellite consequently always has a point during its 27.3 day orbit when it is at its distant point from Earth. 

Billions of years ago, the Moon was a molten world. As it solidified, the heaviest materials (metals like iron) sank down into the Moon’s centre, and the lighter materials (lower density rocks) rose towards the surface. The result is a structure a bit like a chocolate-dipped cherry – solid core, mostly solid/partly liquid mantle, and thin outer crust.  

Lunar impact craters are the depressions left behind after an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet collides with the Moon. Though craters are visible on worlds throughout the solar system, lunar craters are special because we can see them close-up, and the relative lack of erosion and other surface processes on the Moon keep them well-preserved. Moon craters fascinate us because they are a record of the process that built and shaped our entire solar system, the fingerprints of history pressed into the lunar surface.  

Solar systems form through collision. Tiny flecks of dust strike and stick to one another, gradually transforming through accumulation into pebbles, boulders, and planetoids, and then finally into planets. The bits and pieces left behind by this process are still here as the rocky and icy objects that populate areas in our solar system like the asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Collisions continue even today, with solar system bodies periodically pummeled by these leftovers. The meteoroids, asteroids and comets left swirling about the Sun are occasionally drawn into a gravitational embrace with their bigger siblings. On Earth, erosion and plate tectonics slowly erase their imprints. But when we look at the sky, the Moon’s craters are visual proof of the messy process that led to our planet’s creation.  

 

October’s Full Moon is traditionally called the Hunter’s Moon. But this October’s Full Moon also has two other names: It is both a Super Moon and the 2025 Harvest Moon.  

The first supermoon of 2025, also known as the Harvest Moon, was visible on the evening of October 6 and the early hours of October 7. Rising shortly after sunset, it offered skywatchers a striking view, especially when observed from dark areas away from city lights. In India, the supermoon was  visible across most regions on the evening of October 6 and into the early hours of October 7, depending on local weather and cloud cover.   

A Supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, known as perigee. As a result, the Moon appears slightly larger and up to 30% brighter than a typical full moon. Although the size difference is subtle to the naked eye, it is often enhanced by the “moon illusion,” especially when the Moon is low on the horizon. The event can also cause slightly higher tides due to the increased gravitational pull.  

IN Western Countries, this month’s Full Moon is also the Harvest Moon, the name given to the Full Moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox (which was September 22). Often, the September Full Moon is the Harvest Moon, but this year September’s Full Moon was on the 7th, 15 days before the equinox. October’s Full Moon is 14 days after the equinox, which means it takes the Harvest Moon title this year.  

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. This October supermoon marks the first in a rare sequence of three consecutive supermoons in 2025, offering a unique opportunity for skywatchers and photographers to enjoy one of the year’s most visually striking lunar events.

 

To us – these would not rank among the most important things in life. We are  more concerned  about our Emperuman and ways to serve and reach Him.  Today, Sri Parthasarathi shone in resplendent splendour ~ and it was great darshan to behold.   திருமழிசைமன்னன் வரிகளில்: 

வானுலவு தீவளி மாகடல் மாபொருப்பு,

தானுலவு வெங்கதிரும் தண்மதியும், - மேனிலவு

கொண்டல் பெயரும் திசையெட்டும் சூழ்ச்சியும்,

அண்டந் திருமால் அகைப்பு.

 

ஆகாசம், தீ, உலவுகின்ற வாயு,  பெரிய நீர்பரப்பான  பெருங்கடல்கள்,  அண்ட வெளியில் நாள்தவறாமல் திரிகின்ற வெம்மையான சூரியன்,  குளிர்ச்சியை அளிக்கும் வெண்மதியான சந்திரன்,  மழை சுமந்து திரியும் மேகங்கள், இதர சேதனங்கள்,  திசைகள் எட்டு,   ஆவரணங்கள்,  அனைத்தையும் தன்னுள் அடக்கிய அண்ட சராசரம் - இவை எல்லாமே -  ஸர்வேச்வரனான  ஸ்ரீமன் நாராயணின்  ஸங்கல்பத்தினாலேயே  உருவானவை.  அவனுக்கு மட்டுமே ஆட்பட்டவை.  

The forces of nature as observed and seen – the sky, fire, Oceans, mountains, the hot Sun, cool Moon, rain bearing clouds, eight directions, the Universe, the open that surrounds the galaxies  - all are manifestations of Lord Sriman Narayana.  

Lesser mortals like us need not worry  about the future uncertainties, bad things and  sins of life – ThirumazhisaiAzhwar shows us the path of having in our hearts – that beautiful Lord Krishna reclining on the riverside of the holy Cauvery,  will protect us all the time.  Here are some photos of Emperuman  Sri Parthasarathi  pournami purappadu at  Thiruvallikkeni.

~adiyen Srinivasadhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan  Sampathkumar
6.10.2025