Now that the Sun has moved into the sign of Taurus, it’s time to build on what we’ve accomplished already since last year. Taurus is the sign that rules new life, returning life after the apparent death in winter. New life that will find its harvest in the fall. We are the co-creators of life, and now is the time to create the new life we want for this year.
Taurus rules worth and possessions; self-worth as well as money, gifts and talents as well as possessions. If you’ve found your self-worth, then don’t be afraid to go out into the world and create change through your gifts and talents. If you’ve been inspired this past month while the Sun was in Aries, urging you to go beyond where you’ve gone before, then what are you ready to build? What wants to grow? Just remember to create it in beauty, grow it with love, and present it to others with grace. Taurus creativity is all about love, beauty, grace, joy and peace.
Taurus rules our senses and our instincts. When we open ourselves to them, we must learn to trust them. The Celtic poets were said to drink from the fountain of wisdom with the 5 streams (senses) running from it. Our poets and musicians inspire our senses to perceive the world as they do. Our senses pick up information from our environment and attune us to ourselves and to the world. If we were more attuned to our senses, we would cringe at the ugliness we’ve created in the world. So re-tune your senses this month and learn to feel, see, hear, taste and smell the beauty of nature - and perhaps take time to sense the ugliness of malls and concrete boxes and stop going to them.
Earth Day takes place at the beginning of Taurus, the sign that rules Mother Earth. It was just after these major conjunctions in the 60s that Earth Day was instituted in 1970. We saw then that we were disregarding the sacredness of the Earth, and now 39 years later, it seems we have the political will to finally do something about it. In getting in touch with our senses, we insure that we will never deaden ourselves again to the environmental damage our consumer society creates.
Venus, the ruler of Taurus, just turned direct on April 17th after 5 weeks of retracing her way through the fires of Aries and stepping back into the cooling waters of the collective womb – Pisces. Re-born, like Aphrodite from the oceanic waters, she connected with her desire. Mars, warrior and lover energy, caught up with her on April 21, at 30 Pisces, the very last degree of the Zodiac, which means the end of an old cycle of love and desire, releasing us from old love karma so we can see love from a higher perspective.
Something is ending so something new can be born. It’s time for men and women of good faith to give each other a little slack and work on respect for each other rather than political correctness or just plain annoyance with each other. If we learn to connect with respect, most of the issues between the sexes would begin to heal.
For this new Moon in Taurus, Venus and Mars have both moved into the first two degrees of Aries, ready for a new beginning in truth. Pluto in Capricorn squares them, forcing them into the depths, where they can touch their foundation – the truth of their being. Each of us has Venus and Mars someplace in our charts, each placement telling us how we’ve lived out our loves and desires. Now it’s time for something new to emerge from the ocean of new beginnings. Those placements tell us what lessons we came into life to learn. So have we learned them? If we have, we get to create love anew. The reality that the patriarchy has repressed is, Love Conquers All.
We are here on Earth to learn and evolve. Our love relationships have hopefully taught us how to be free by forcing us to deal with how we aren’t free. Only when we are free of old conditioning can we really love ourselves and another. So be thankful for all those old bad relationships and see what you’ve learned about yourself and love. And now, with this new Moon, begin to trust love again, because you’ve learned to love yourself.
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