On SUNDAY, April 27th at 3:31PM EDT, the Taurus Moon catches up with the Taurus Sun giving us this month's New Moon - our annual New Moon in fixed earth, fertile TAURUS.
The New Moon is a time when the skies are dark. It is the time of beginning. The seed goes into the ground. The sperm goes into the egg. The idea goes onto the paper. The nail into the wood. You get the idea.
There is alot going on for a sign that likes things simple, so let's dive right in and unpack the chart!
The Moon meets the Sun at 7 degrees Taurus. The Moon squares Mars in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius. These squares are separating - so the anger, the blow-up, the power-struggle, whatever the Mars/Pluto opposition is about for us is behind us. Has already happened. The consequences and ramifications are pulled into this New Moon cycle and whatever is starting is built on the back of this PRESSURE. The New Moon squares asteroid Karma in Leo, exact. The New Moon opposes Hekate in Scorpio (exact, this pulls the energy of the CROSS-ROAD into the New Moon cycle) and also opposes Black Moon Lilith, so again we have a FIXED GRAND CROSS - last weekend and mid-week and now again this weekend. The New Moon squares Amycus (exact in Aquarius). The Moon is answering to Venus, exalted in Pisces, covering the same ground for the THIRD time and conjunct Saturn and the North Node - both separating.
Whew!
OK, first things first. The Sun and the Moon meet at 7 degrees Taurus. The Moon is EXALTED in Taurus. She is strong here. Taurus is the collective sign of our second house. If Aries says, "I am." then Taurus says, "I have". Taurus rules our resources, material comfort, money, our values, our self-esteem, our innate talents, the planet Earth, what is in our hands and right in front of us RIGHT NOW. She is ruled by Venus and is our fixed earth sign. What starts during a New Moon in Taurus is real - can be held in our hands/taken to the bank. Needs to make sense/cents.
This whole thing is forming a Grand Fixed Cross with the Moon and Sun in Taurus and Mars and Karma in Leo, Amycus and Pluto in Aquarius and Hekate and Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio. What a stand-off!
The squares to Mars and Pluto are separating, but only by hours. Keep in mind that yes in some ways, hours actually means hours, but the Sun's separation from these squares started days ago and also remember that astrology is SYMBOLIC, so the opposition, the battle, the power struggle is really just shown here to be BEHIND US, time isn't important, and the New Moon story is built from the PRESSURE OF IT. Pressure - yes, the way diamonds are made. The Mars/Pluto opposition - the final opposition of the 'war comes home' cycle that started last October is behind us.
Mars in Leo is courage and will power and ego. He/we can't beat Pluto, but we/he WILL get past Pluto. Mars is conjunct asteroid Karma, and this is echoing the Venus/Saturn/North Node - we are meeting our karma and we are creating new karma. Keep this in mind. We want to be exerting our willpower maturely. BE BRAVE.
Pluto is death and transformation. The fear of death that cannot be avoided and the power of transformation that comes after the death. For Mars this can be symbolic of an ego death with whatever we are dealing with/have dealt with. Mars can't beat Pluto, but Pluto will go no further than he is now for MONTHS (he will turn around in just a few days and start moving backward). Mars will get past him. As Mars gets past Pluto and Luna meets the Sun - we are in some way BACK FROM THE DEAD and maybe 'back' isn't the right word here because Plutonian death is permanent. Permanent change. So maybe I should say WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN.
The New Moon opposes Hekate EXACT. Hekate is an ancient triplicity Goddess - the maiden, the mother, the crone. Her memory twisted into something witchy; she was originally a protective force. Her statue was built at three-way crossroads to guide travelers toward the best path. She opposes the New Moon from deep/dark Scorpio, so maybe the way we should go is hidden from us at this point. Or maybe with Mars and Pluto being the ancient and modern rulers of Scorpio, Hekate in Scorpio and answering to both of them is pulling this story together and simply stating that, yes, we/humanity are at a CROSSROADS.
(note - Hekate gives three options 1. go back the way we have come 2. move forward in the same way 3. choose a new path - the North Node of Fate with Venus the ruler of this lunation could be said to indicate 'the new path' would be Pisces so something more compassionate, connecting, creative, having faith and the way back could be said to speak of Virgo over-analyzing, looking for problems, focusing on the details)
The New Moon is answering to Venus.
Venus is EXALTED in Pisces, walking late Pisces for the third time. She has just met up with the North Node and Saturn. This is in the past, too. Karma shows up. Results. A reality check. We make a commitment to something - new karma is made. This is Pisces - so what has been "put away"/put into the past is not sitting comfortably behind us. Remember the theme of all this Pisces/Aries has been, at least in part - going back to get a better ending. It can't sit comfortably because that isn't the point. We have the opportunity to release what has been stuck for lifetimes RIGHT NOW.
With Saturn, what we want is, in some way, limited, yes, but this means it can also be more CLEARLY DEFINED.
(I am praying as I write this on Saturday morning that the leaders gathered at the Pope's funeral are seeing and really feeling the crowds and the grief and the love and what they can have/the legacy they can have when rule, even strict rule because Saturn is here, comes through love and respect and not fear. And that also everyone can realize that fear can actually be a gift, too, because fear brings into razor-sharpness what really matters. It hones our instincts and pulls us home/to center. God through the universe knows what she/he/it is doing.)
We can feel/see this is what matters now because its edges are sharper. We can know - here is what I need through whatever events are transpiring.
Venusian things like love and relationships and women and money and resources are called toward discipline and maturity.
Rewards will take time. There are no shortcuts with a fixed square. There is an indication, with the North Node here, of a sober future where maybe less is more or something is more serious and less is more or this seriousness is not a bad thing - it is the best path forward.
Saturn also represents father and father-figures so, there could be something here about a father/mentor pulling us forward or if we are playing Saturn to someone else's Venus we are asked to mentor/parent or soften to someone else (maybe a female, maybe a person with a strong Taurus or Libra). Saturn (reality) in Pisces (the dream) can be about making the dream real, BECAUSE we do the work to make it real. There can be a sacrifice involved here/a loss. Sometimes we have to lose something to realize we don't really need it in the way we thought we did.
In Pisces, this is about making peace with the past. Making peace with where we are now - with the results/karma that has shown up.
Keep in mind besides the theme of "the war comes home" which wraps up (as much as anything on planet Earth ever wraps up it really just leads us to the next thing) on May 2nd when Mars starts walking new degrees in Leo, we also have the "going back to get a better ending before we start" theme that also wraps up on May 2nd when Venus meets Neptune. All roads lead to May 2nd. And no, I don't know what that means either!
Finally, after the Moon meets the Sun and we have the New Moon - seeds in the ground/something starts (you can use your New Moon intentions to be more intentional with what you are starting, but something always starts) - the Moon will go on to sextile Saturn and then sextile Venus. These aspects are APPLYING. Haven't happened yet. So, we get the opportunity with the Pisces energies AFTER the New Moon and after the explosive squares with Mars and Pluto.
Things can be more stable and more loving.
So, yes, we start this thing with our back against the wall and maybe the wall isn't even there anymore. Maybe Mars/Pluto has blown up the wall. But the good news is the sextiles/the opportunities that come after, and because of, the metaphoric "death". The Moon will make these sextiles within a day or so. The Sun will sextile Saturn on May 20th. As I wrote about in the last post, the Sun doesn't get to make that sextile to Venus from Taurus because she moves into Aries and I couldn't find it going forward, so it just keeps applying and this must be what we need because this is what we get.
Bottom line - this Taurus New Moon comes with a Fixed Grand Cross - which can make us feel very TRAPPED.
Think of the flat cross as a table (and I am working with new software for 3D resin printer and the X, Y, Z axis after 20 years of flat old photoshop is breaking my brain) - by moving any leg all four legs move or the leg we move breaks. The only other option is to stay stuck and Mars in Leo is NOT going to stay stuck. The Mars in Leo courage and ego - and need for attention and appreciation - is here for a reason!
So, whichever leg we move know the other legs will move, too. THEY WILL HAVE TO.
NEW MOON INTENTIONS
This new moon in Taurus is an excellent time to begin a grounding practice, make affirmations and set intentions about Taurean ruled themes (especially the theme of your natal Taurus house): love, money, contentment with what we already have, patience, self-worth, releasing stubbornness, health issues regarding our neck, throat and voice in the world.
AFFIRMATION TIPS: get into a happy, contented frame of mind - HUG A TREE (she needs us, too!) - always make affirmations from a positive place, and both definitions of positive apply here - happy and certain. Write your affirmations down by hand in script, speak them out loud - then release your attention from these things knowing that your intention is known.
Know these things are already yours.
xo all
I will cover the Pope, JD Vance and Trump (who has an exact Uranus/Hekate in his natal chart WTH doesn't he have?) in Part II this weekend. The astro is totally amazing, but I wanted to see who else comes to the funeral and I wanted to get this part up first.
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I was struck by: "we are in some way BACK FROM THE DEAD and maybe 'back' isn't the right word here because Plutonian death is permanent. Permanent change. So maybe I should say WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN. " -- yes, striking generally; but I have just (yesterday) started writing a story I have been working on for a couple of years now. The beginning I have written is about a woman who has been quite ill for several years suddenly awakening to find that she is miraculously well. And, my mental work on this story has been over a time when I felt I had to a great extent lost, and then slowly, a re-awakening of my creative writing (which has always been a major part of my identity)
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