Mind Marinade: TAURUS NEW MOON
Last chance to empty your hands and receive the gifts of this Taurus Season
Honor the New Moon in Taurus with us tonight!
Remember in Beauty and the Beast when Beast dies and Belle professes her love for him, just before the last rose petal falls and then suddenly beams of light protrude from his body transforming a monster into a handsome prince? That’s this week.
There are several transits that support illumination and transformation. We reap with the cycle that begins on Wednesday with the New Moon in Taurus.
During this retrograde we have done the introspective work of self-examination. Conversations with ourself was the recipe for this deep transmutation. Aries is all about self-knowing, self-protecting and providing our basic needs. The self-reflections we had with our mind, body and intuition will have significant pay-offs when Mars and Pluto make a sextile in tandem with the New Moon.
Mars sextile Pluto is the light beams as Beast becomes human again. Mars sextile Pluto is the alchemy of movements, our behavior, our decisions. But we have already done the work—we’ve been doing it since Pluto moved into Aquarius—at the very least.
Although both of these planets are assertive, the nuance is in the fact that Taurus energy attracts and recieves. Which leads me to understand that this transit supplies us with the ability to receive the transformation rather than execute it. Pluto is the witch that provided the opportunity for the evil prince turned Beast to save his soul.
The Beast in us has already done the soft work of vulnerability—now the physical transformation can take place with Taurus season and so many strong planets in this sign, like Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and the Sun—and this week, the moon.
We are finishing our review with this Mercury retrograde—if you’re not sure you have, there is still time to come to NEW MOON CLUB!!
This Taurus season invites us to put out our hands and close our eyes. We are being gifts, but we have to empty whatever it is our hands are holding. That is the only move—to make space. Taurus wants to increase our material and physical blessings.
This New Moon in Taurus cycle is taking our desires from poof to proof. Especially, with Jupiter in Taurus, there is an amplification of material goodness. The Sun conjunction with Uranus also in Taurus emphasizes the flow of idea to invention—prototype to product to mass production. The intangible becomes tangible this month.
Much to look forward as we conclude Taurus Season. Venus will form conjunctions with Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus—these are rare. Jupiter and the Sun will meet in Taurus too—another transit that only happens every 12-13 years. I will go into more detail as we approach these planetary meetings.
Belle fell in love with the Beast despite his outer appearance—but what a pleasant surprise when she discovered it was a mask covering up a truly handsome prince. This season is our reward for staying true to ourselves as we discover the truth in others.
New Moon Club tonight will reap and reorganize the self-reflection that began this year. I hope you join us!