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Once In a Blue Moon How You Can Wish On a Blue Moon

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Blue Moon Rises Bringing Important Wishing Occasion

Once in a blue moon…

As with most, if not all old sayings, this one too has ancient supernatural roots that have thankfully come to light just in time for the blue moon on July 31.

20150727-132009.jpgAs you know, the saying once in blue moon, means things that very seldom happen.

In other words, things that you wish would happen more often but don’t happen in the general business of ongoing life. The blue moon, itself a change in the usual order of business, can bring about a rare exception, just as the saying suggests.

It’s a fact that was recently brought to light here on the site  by a survivor named Ravenwillow. And further research into the matter validates her experience and reveals long tradition of wishing on the blue moon. (Just one of many tips and contributions made by survivors here on the site that keep me keeping on as a supernatural survivalist.)

Don’t let the moon set on this excellent wishing opportunity! Read on and get ready to make your own blue moon wish.

How To Wish On a Blue Moon 3 Easy Steps

1. Select Your Blue Moon Wish Wisely

Whether it’s a genie in a lamp or a leprechaun-owned wishing well this is always good advice. However in the case of a blue moon, it’s not a matter of be careful what you wish for! life-or-death.

No, in this case it’s just a matter of maximizing the blue moon potential by understanding the nature of the blue moon. As the second full moon in a single month, blue moons are rare but regular and predictable occurrences – but not in and of themselves supernatural events despite their ability to temporarily suspend the usual order of business in the world.

Your wish should reflect this. It’s not an occasion to wish for something that has never happened before. It’s an occasion to wish for something you wish would happen again.

2. Write Your Wish In Stone

Your cave wall would be an ideal place. At least that’s what the ancients did. Granted this used to be easier. If you no longer live in a cave, find a smooth rock or stone and write on it with a decent marker instead.

Just make sure your rock is big enough – or your wish small enough – to fit on the stone you select or you could end up with only half a wish, in other words a wish that almost-but-not-quite comes true. And research shows the only thing worse than not hitting that home run in the ninth inning of a tie game with loaded bases is almost-but-not-quite making that epic catch in the ninth inning of a tie game with loaded bases.

3. Bury Your Blue Moon Wish Rock

Two key words here, timing and location. 

Timing

First, the rock must be buried at the height of the blue moon. Normally this means when the moon reaches its fullest height and certainly if you suspect that you are a Blue or Silver Werewolf  you need to be aware of this. But for blue moon wishing, the key timing here is precisely midnight on the last day of the month.

What if you bury it well before midnight? While reportedly not optimal, research reveals that a before-midnight wish-rock burial is not wholly ineffective like an after-midnight wish burial. So erring on the side of caution here is not out of the question. If you can’t make a midnight date with the blue moon, better to make it before than after.

Location

Anywhere the moonlight falls will work. Now this gets tricky if it’s a cloudy night. Tricky but not not devastating. Not if you pick your location with careful observation and weather research well in advance of the blue moon.

Now I’m not saying there aren’t other valid ways to wish on the blue moon but the research suggests if you follow these three steps your wish has historically corroborated odds of coming true. We can quibble about numbers all day, whether that means 99.98 or 99.00 percent – and I freely admit to not testing my research yet –  but hey, wouldn’t this time be better spend in preparing for the blue moon instead? Nothing here involves burying a dead animal or risking your eternal soul or inviting a maliciously playful fey being into your life forever. And you don’t need a whole wishing team.  So where’s the risk?

I know I’ll have my wish ready.

The Doctor Of Survival: Blue Moon Survivor of the Month

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Once again the app proves apt because this month’s lucky Survivor of the Month winner is very appropriate for the Blue Moon.

Why? Well cuz as you know the Blue Moon is an extra moon that appears on the calendar every 2-3 years. It pops up at the end of a month that already has a full moon. A quirk of time, like leap years and leap seconds, by-products of our need to mark and control time with earthly devices…

Just like the SOS Blue Moon Survivor of the Month.

Now this is the part where you say…

Doc-Time

DOCTOR, HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? 

This Survivor pops in and out of the timeline, a time traveling were-angel for hire. As a result, there are many versions of him. You can never be sure which version of him you are dealing with. But all of them are pretty helpful… for the right price.

And what kind of assistance can you expect from The Doctor exactly? Well for starters,

The Doctor here. What’s up? If it’s a cold I recommend chicken soup.

That’s what he told Scarly when she had a cold that caused her to transform every time she sneezed. And if that didn’t clear it up then,

Just find a rift, doesn’t matter the size and location then bombard it with a small of amount of tachions. That should open a small black hole that you can time travel through.

This Doctor never met a problem that couldn’t be solved with a little chrono-manipulation therapy. Take is Rx for boredom – Re-visit a historical war again and again. Like the Spartan war. Also sometimes the middle ages, he likes to take a little knight vacay.

(I wonder how he gets his armor? Can he travel with medieval money? Or does he borrow when he gets there?)

Or did you ever find a strange cell phone, just out of the blue? Could be just what The Doctor ordered. He has a cell phone with unlimited time displacement that he might just toss your way in a time of need.

Just be careful which buttons you push or you could find yourself in a time lock, re-living the worst 30 seconds of your life. Okay once he caused a small cannibal outbreak, but hey he looped back to fixed it.

The Doctor likes void stones, swords, his SOS friends including Mr. Mutt, Scarly and Wolf Princess and a good night’s sleep in a time ripe area, that is a place outside of time. (I’m still looking for one of these. Doc says he has one in his house.)

He hates fire, stale pretzels and weak temporal energy fields – who doesn’t? – and of course he does have a few nemeses on the site, including: Dr. Mad, Chronos, Fear and Stigma. Or maybe it’s just Stigma’s demon, hard to say.

Oh and witches. He has a thing about witches ever since a coven of them stole his chrono-flux generation ring. How did he get it back anyway…? I missed that. Anyone catch that?

Anyway The Doctor’s been dedicated contributer to survival, we learn a lot and have a good time whenever he stops by. May he keep on keeping on, wherever or whenever he goes.

Thanks to everyone who kept on with the Blue Moon clues and thanks for your patience with this whole Survivor of the Month experiment. Congrats to Ice who guessed when I asked for guesses this time. I half-expected nobody to guess since twice in the past I put a prize question into the Survivor of the Month profiles and nobody guessed. This time apparently was different! It looks like several survivors knew the answer and could have guessed if they had known they were allowed to this time. Apologies for that. I blame it on the Blue Moon. But next month if we offer a guessing prize I will lay out the game better from the first post. And make the clues harder! Anyway it’s good to recall, prizes are really really small and survival is its own reward!

Thanks for keeping on.

Seth

Lightning Moon: Survivor of the Month

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It’s a well-known fact more new werewolves will experience their first transformation under it than any other month of the year. Very appropriate considering it’s the Dog Days first brought the new Survivor of the Month. See if you can guess who it is:

CLUES:

1. This survivor’s improvised weapon of choice is a frying pan.

2. This survivor started wearing a little silver bracelet to prevent uncontrolled transformations.

3. This survivor blew the lid off anti-lycanthropic orthodontics and created an anti-braces movement here on the site.

If you haven’t guessed it by now it’s…

HOWLIN’ WITH WEREWOLF GIRL AKA: SCAR

How appropriate that Werewolfgirl AKA: Scar (her WW name) would be Survivor of the Month for the Dog Days Moon since it’s during the Dog Days that she made her first appearance on the site.

At the time WWgirl suspected that she might be a genetic WW but she had not experienced her first transformation yet.  She had many signs of lycanthropy. She couldn’t sleep at night, she experienced free-floating fits of were-rage and worst of all, she had recently discovered that she loved to howl at the moon – in human form.

Needless to say, WWgirl was pretty worried that one of her neighbors was going to alert the police. Or worse, the Paranormal Police. Or worse yet, Area 51. Or worse, worse than that, upload an embarrassing youtube video.

It was a bit of a mystery to the other WWs on the site though because we did try to reassure her that it was normal to howl at the moon in human form, but in truth, most WWs only howl in WW form. As we tried to figure it out, she wondered if her parents had ordered anti-lycanthropic orthodontics to prevent her transformation. That her braces contained a silver coating that was enough to restrain her transformation.

Many WWs on the site became concerned and looked into the situation, leading to the astonishing news that yes, in fact some unscrupulous orthos were in collusion with anti-lycan forces to try to prevent young WWs from transforming. Their theory, and we still don’t know if it’s true, is that by preventing a WW’s first transformation long enough, the lycanthropy genes will go dormant in adulthood.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, for WWgirl it didn’t work. The pull of the Dog Star overcame the pull of the silver in her braces and she experienced her first transformation around this time one year ago, and the WWgirl became Scar.

For a while Scar could only type with her claws on the site and as a result her messages became mainly pictograms like the one below.

(=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)

Whenever I get a call about a WW sighting I keep my eyes open for markings like these, so I will know if it was Scar. (Although I still won’t know what it means. I need a werewolf translator…)

There have been several (unconfirmed) reports of her distinctive claw marks on fences and trees and even in one human’s face – but they are only unconfirmed rumors.

Anyway after a while Scar got the hang of controlling her transformations using a silver bracelet and she stops by the site regularly. She has a soft spot for humans who dream of becoming werewolves. Werewolfgirl will never bite the uninitiated, but she researches and shares alternative ways to acquire lycanthropy.  Like this information about a baptismal ritual said to induce lycanthropy in otherwise average humans. She also checks in regularly to see if there’s anything she can do to help out, which I really appreciate and so do many other survivors.

An Interview with WWgirl AKA Scar:

**Please note, WWgirl Scar is not the most talkative interview subject. Her answers are a little evasive and they raise many more questions that you might like to ask her.  

1.  Which family member is the source of your lycanthropy? How long has lycanthropy been in your family?

I think my Dad. 

2. How do you use the silver bracelet to control your transformations? (If you still do.)

I lost the bracelet, sadly.

3. Do you still hide your lycanthropy from your family and friends?

Not really, I haven’t  transformed yet , so no need. ***

What the…?  Can she be believed? Is WWgirl covering her tracks?  Especially considering her answer to the next question…

4. Can you tell us anything about a mission you are on or have been on lately?

I haven’t done much, except maybe almost kill some mean people.

5. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one other supernatural being who would it be and why?

um…I’m not sure. Maybe you, if you count…

See how she turned the interview around on me? Clever WWgirl very clever.

Thanks for keeping on. Any info we can gather to clarify this interview, I hope you will post it below.