This Taurus New Moon occurs on Sunday, May 17th at 9:13pm PDT and on Monday, May 18th at 12:13am EDT/ 4:13am GMT. A Taurus New Moon is an especially fertile time to plant a seed of a new thought, a vision, a plan or a goal. Plant a literal seed to symbolize your plans and then nurture them to help them grow strong.
The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 27* Taurus is: An old Native woman selling artifacts of her tribe on the streets. Our culture needs to return to basic community values and rebuild our communities and the world in more peaceful ways. The old Wisdom to accomplish this is still available if we look for it in everyday life. The Alchemists said that Lady Wisdom stood in the streets, offering herself and her wisdom to people, but they ignored her. We can no longer afford to be so blind.
Taurus asks us to consider our resources and our talents and decide how best to use them. If we still stand in patriarchy's corner, our goal is probably to make money. If we step away and ask what our purpose is, we'll discover alternative ways to use our resources that will benefit us as well as the Earth.
So how is Venus channeling this
Taurus energy? Venus is in Cancer, the
sign of the Mother, our emotional body, our home. Creative and family-oriented, Venus in Cancer
connects us to our inner truth. Venus is also in a very positive trine
relationship with Neptune in Pisces (exact on May 16th), helping us
bridge many dimensions in our search for Self.
The Sabian symbol for Venus at 12* Cancer is: A woman nursing a baby whose aura reveals him to be the reincarnation of a great Teacher. This symbol speaks to each person's ability to reclaim our past-life experiences to sustain us in this lifetime. We have to nurture the divine essence within and bring that knowledge forward into our lives now. We are more than this one lifetime. Our souls are comprised of many lives, many experiences, many talents. Venus here calls to those spiritual energies to awaken within us.
Venus as well as Taurus connects us to our five senses, while Neptune connects us to our metaphysical senses--our intuitions, our visionary experiences, our mystical connections to Earth and others. We'll probably be on sensory overload if we include those beyond the five. Venus squares the Nodes, challenging us to make love not war. When we stop fighting and start listening to ourselves and each other we'll discover our real needs and hopefully, start taking care of them. With Venus in the spotlight, we have to nurture ourselves--body, soul and spirit!
Venus in Cancer will also connect with the still potent Pluto/Uranus square. On May 21st, Venus opposes Pluto retrograde in Capricorn and squares Uranus in Aries on May 25th. Venus will carry this revolutionary energy forward, especially when she connects with Mars again for their second and third meeting later this summer.
Mars is in Gemini opposite Saturn in Sagittarius. Saturn is making sure that our belief system is being revised, while Mars is open to the new possibilities that the Gemini mind will come up with. And Saturn's discipline and focus guarantees that Mars won't be impulsive about what needs to be done.
On May 16th, Jupiter in Leo joins the asteroid Juno. Juno is Queen of the Gods, Jupiter's wife and goddess of relationships. In Greece, she was called Hera, the wife of Zeus. This mythological couple needs redeeming from patriarchy. Zeus never fulfilled his obligation to Hera, who is the Goddess of the Full Moon. His role was to 'perfect' Hera's energy, but the patriarchal mindset refuses to give that power to the Feminine. Hopefully, we are at a point in our evolution where she can be given her due. When the masculine supports and 'perfects' the feminine spirit of life, we will live with outer equality between the sexes and an inner balance between our feminine soul and our masculine ego.
We have a choice before us. We can be complacent and stick with the patriarchal story, or we can envision a new story to take its place. If we choose the new story, we have to incarnate it and give birth to it. Now that the intense Pluto/Uranus square is behind us we can truly begin our work of creating a just and peaceful world. That's what Taurus desires above all else!
Walk in the Light,
Cathy
Psychedelic Haight Street Mural; Joplin, Hendrix, Garcia
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Woodstock
by Joni Mitchell
I came upon a child of God
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