Taurus New Moon

New Moon in Taurus  *  20 May 2023, 2:54am (local time - Bilpin, Australia)

New Moons are times of manifestation. They are the turning points of the dark cycle where the light of attention and awareness begin to grow into being. Taurus as fixed earth energy is particularly strong when it comes to manifestation, and this New Moon finds not only the Sun and Moon in Taurus, but Jupiter, the North Node, Mercury, Vesta and Uranus all in Taurus as well. With this lunation trining Pluto in Aquarius and sextiling Mars in Cancer we have a very heady and potent mix of energy available should we choose to activate it. Trines and sextiles are considered easy energies and as such while they offer much stability and juice into the mix, their gifts are often wasted unless engaged with consciously. If you have any placements in Taurus in your birth chart or placements in fixed signs in the late degrees this Moon can be particularly potent for you.

Taurus energy wants tangible stability. Ruled by Venus it is particularly concerned with stability in our relationships to the material world. This can mean money and finances, but more deeply it is about stability in relationship to our sense of personal power in the world. With a New Moon, both the Sun and the Moon are conjunct and therefore they are yoked into the same vision and desire. Taurus is an energy of embodiment. It rules our animal natures. And so it wants our animal body to feel content. This is achieved by seeing to our most basic of needs – food, shelter and safety. Taurus wants to be nourished and craves simple pleasures like a nap or the sun on our skins. Taurus can work hard, but it also rests hard. It does not need to brag and boast, in fact Taurus prefers silence – so that it can listen to the rhythms and messages of its own body and own animal instincts.

This New Moon is a potent time to review where you are falling short in terms of attending to your own instincts and what your body is telling you. The sextile from Mars can lend us a ferocious commitment to taking care and nourishing ourselves and trine from Pluto suggests that when all these energies are consciously yoked, great healing can happen at a collective and societal level - simply through the process of individuation and attending to our most basic needs and standing strong in our core values. Uranus helps us to make radical shifts and Mercury lends our intelligence to sort out how to bring about those changes. Jupiter always makes everything bigger, so he can lend a generous wind to those efforts. Having said that, every energy has two sides. This combination can very easily lead us into the extreme opposite direction. Taurus energy can be very pigheaded and Taurus really does not like to change. We all know that the health of our planet and our society and most likely our own lives is degrading at a rapid rate. Change is happening all around us and very quickly, and mostly due to a result of selfish idealism that fears diversity. Taurus energy can dig its heels in and stubbornly stick to its own story. We all have a somebody-done-me-wrong sob story where we are the hapless victim. There is no shame in that. Its simply a product of being alive in a human body at this time. Not being able to drop the story or tell a more interesting one is where the danger is. Mars in Cancer can lend a lot of ego to the pity party should we choose to throw one. Taurus can be determinedly shallow and selfish, believing that if it accumulates enough it can build a fortress of safety for itself. The energies and ideals of the last 500 years can double down with a continued Me-First mentality. These kinds of choices can catapult just as easily into an extreme manifestation as those aiming towards a healthier, more equitable planet and society. The things we decide to elevate as our values in our personal lives will ripple out into the collective. The world out there is a direct reflection of the world in here. Its time to do some house cleaning, to grow up and take responsibility for the state of the world by owning your part and getting clear on your values. If we are to have a healthy community, we need to have a broader vision of society than the BOOORIIIING, dumbed down homogeneity and monoculture vision capitalism and colonialism has been spoon feeding us. Lets all use this New Moon energy to commit instead to stop being sheep those in power can fleece to continue to line their own pockets and instead take responsibility where we can. This not only means daring to individuate - actually to be our honest, naked, vulnerable and diverse selves, but also to make room in our stories for the individuation of others. We do not all have to believe the same thing, we do not all have to agree on what is right or best for there to be respect and tolerance. We are smart enough and creative enough to build a more interesting world we can all be proud of. Taurus can help us tap into what we already all know: that biodiversity creates a healthy, strong and resilient ecosystem of abundance and overall peace. Taurus knows that it isn’t complicated. Its actually quite simple. Conserve your energy for what truly matters and bask in the beauty and aliveness of the present moment.