Moon in Kingston Today — Full Moon

Moon in Kingston — Did You Know?

• ·Kingston, Jamaica carries a profound lunar connection through Rastafari — a spiritual movement born in Jamaica in the 1930s — which observes the full moon as a time for Nyahbinghi groundation ceremonies: all-night drumming, chanting, and communal reasoning gatherings that have been held under the Kingston moon in camps across the city since the movement's founding.
• ·Kingston sits at the foot of the Blue Mountains — whose 2,256-metre peak is the highest in the Caribbean — and the full moon rising over the Blue Mountain ridge to the east creates a dramatically backlit silhouette before it clears the peaks and floods Kingston Harbour with light, producing one of the most photogenic moonrise sequences in the Caribbean, visible from the waterfront Palisadoes strip.
• ·At latitude 18.0°N, Kingston sees the winter full moon reach approximately 90° — directly overhead at the zenith — and the Caribbean's exceptionally low aerosol atmosphere, blown clean by Trade Winds from the east, ensures the full moon shines with near-zero haze, casting hard-edged shadows in the streets of New Kingston that Rastafari elders have long described as a sign of spiritual clarity.