With this New Moon in Taurus, we find ourselves in a new story.
We are out of spring eclipse season, yet its effects have barely begun to unfold. We’re past the exact Jupiter–Uranus conjunction, yet seeds planted then have only begun to show themselves.
We’re in a time of endings and beginnings weaving together into a new landscape of possibility.
This New Moon chart is gathered tightly across the second half of Pisces, all of Aries, and much of Taurus. Opposite we find, once again, the South Node in Libra, holding the rest of the planets in her hand like a big bunch of bright balloons.
If you experience this New Moon at night, as I will, the exalted Moon in Taurus becomes the sect light who in turn is ruled by Venus in her nighttime Taurus home. Venus is the nighttime benefic, also ruling Jupiter, the other benefic, likewise in Taurus.
This part of the story is about seeds and roots and ancient trees with long memories.
Uranus, also in Taurus, brings change, and that’s fine. Life is change. Stasis is death. Not natural death, which is all about Taurean decomposition to feed the future, but rather the emptiness of nothing at all. Change is life.
We’re drawn deep into a green and growing world. We want to lie in beds of moss and gaze at the stars, waking to birdsong and the stirrings of life all around us.
There is work for our hands and rest for our souls. We follow the path of the Sun across the sky and the circling of stars overhead at night.
This is the opening of the story.
Then something happens.
An alien lands in the backyard. Disturbing news arrives from far away. A child is born unlike any other child. A magical book glows in an unused trunk in the attic. Strange singing wakes you up at night.
This is Aries. Here we find Mercury conjunct Chiron, conferring about what we discovered, released, and healed during the retrograde. Here too is the asteroid Eris carrying the wounds of the world.
Mars, newly arrived in his home sign, is flexing his muscles. In the courtyard of the castle, he moves through drills with his broadsword. Nothing has happened yet, but he knows its about to.
The North Node in Aries is restless, wanting, questing here and there, dissatisfied with this seemingly idyllic world.
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Neptune at the end of Pisces spins a magical web over everything. You get lost on your way home, but end up meeting the person you’ve been looking for forever.
Saturn (17º13’ Pisces) sextiles the New Moon (18º02’ Taurus). The green and growing world senses the presence of what is beyond. The lord of time and boundaries experiments with manifestation in a place that is infinitely expanding.
The plot is about to take off. It will include conflict, opportunity, transformation, and possibly redemption.
We don’t know yet where it will all end up.
The Libran South Node is at the apex of a yod, a tall triangle formed by quincunxes to Saturn in Pisces and to the New Moon in Taurus.
The South Node is the focus of a dilemma. How do we find peace in a contentious world? How do we let go of things we cherish? How do we reconcile ourselves to loss? Where can we find peace and harmony?
The South Node needs both the spiritual structure of Saturn in Pisces and the grounded solidity of the Taurus New Moon. Yet the path forward is not clear.
The answer to a yod is found by dropping a line straight from the apex to the center of the triangle’s base. But this is the restless North Node. How can this be?
At each spring’s New Moon in Taurus, we’re reminded of how gorgeous the natural world is, and how beautifully we can live if we create with the world rather than against it.
Yet somehow we also need the irritant. Or at least, we can’t seem to escape it. Something in us seeks the new, the exciting, the dangerous. It’s how we’re made.
Many possibilities are held within this New Moon chart. We can find hints to the ones calling out to us by looking for overlaps and intersections between our birth charts and the New Moon chart.
This New Moon pings my chart in lots of ways–almost too many to list. Perhaps that’s why I see so much potential here.
Your experience of the Taurus New Moon will call to you in different ways. It might feel less personal, yet still brim with meaning and possibility.
Gather up the threads that draw you the most. Choose your favorite colors and textures. Begin weaving them together in patterns of your own design, letting the threads themselves guide you.
What kind of life will you weave with this New Moon in Taurus?
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