These times and deities are symbolic gateways to the in-between places: where veils are thin so many dimensions converge; where we find ourselves at a crossroads, a marker of choice and decision; where we step -- or are pushed -- into a new world and a new role; where we have the perspective that only death gives us to understand our life's true story.
With Samhain falling on this Taurus/Scorpio Full Moon, we have a chance to bring through the veils a part of our soul that can help us on this next stage of our journey. Taurus' energy builds a container for Scorpio's emotional depths, enabling us to really look at what's in there. Our hidden fears and prejudices, our hopes and desires, our hidden wounds as well as our proud victories. And our past lives, with our talents and desires still resonating within us. Scorpio feels it all -- the betrayals, the hopes, the intensity, the passion. Our life up until now. Our many lives up until this moment, perhaps?
What do you have to say about this lifetime? Happy or discontent? Write it out becasue it's time now to enter into that 'in-between place' where you are dead to your old life but not yet born to your new. You are in the gray zone of understanding, awakening and choice. What will I do in this transformational time to help myself and humanity move peacefully and gracefully into the future?
We are being called to step forward and offer our healing energy, our open minds and our loving hearts to our communities and see where we're needed. Mother Earth wants us to work with her, to listen to her, to cooperate with her. Our dream group was talking about of how we have to stop thinking we have to be 'perfect' to use our talents and just DO IT. We will grow in skill and wisdom by doing the work, not waiting to take one more class.
Taurus/Scorpio Full Moon
This Taurus Full Moon occurs on November 3rd at 10:22pm PDT and on November 4th at 1:22am EDT/ 5:22am GMT.
This Full Moon is a super Moon, meaning that the Moon in its orbit is closest to the Earth, so it will appear bigger on the horizon as well as having a stronger effect on the tides and on us.
Scorpio is the sign where we emotionally engage with other people. You know how that goes. Some people you naturally resonated with -- as if you're family and you can be yourself and 'let it all hang out'. With other friends, you have to work a little bit harder to feel comfortable, and often you can't share all of yourself with them. Then there are business associates, neighbors, service people and strangers who you wear your persona for and therefore try not to engage emotionally with them. Then there are the ones you know you're not aligned with, because they are discordant in themselves or with your own energy and values. They annoy you.
Scorpio deals with all these kinds of emotional entanglements. The more you are both centered in yourself and open to the other person, the more real your encounter can be. If you can get by the unconscious Scorpio part of yourself that constantly needs to defend itself and fly like the Eagle of Scorpio, being emotionally open is like a dance. And that's the promise of the Phoenix of Scorpio: arising from the ashes of fear, insecurity, entitlement, domination, jealousy, greed and cruelty, Scorpio is certain of his values and emotionally secure enough to dance with your values and emotions. That's what intimacy is: the dance of our emotional lives, a dance that take courage and strength, love and responsibility, openness and hope.
Easier said than done. Especially if we're still awash with our own emotional dramas. But, Scorpio goes deep, wants to explore the mysteries and grapple with the Shadow. If we have a handle on our Shadows -- Jupiter is presently in Scorpio for the next year and will certainly expand on any shadowy areas of our emotional lives -- we won't fall into a shadow dance with others, even if they are lost in it. It's amazing what a conscious standpoint can do for emotional flexibility.
Taurus is the sign that ushers in the Summer on the Wheel of the Year. We celebrate Beltaine across the Wheel from Samhain. So Taurus enlivens all the traits of late Spring/early Summer: fertility, beauty, sensuality, values and inherent talents. May is when the trees and shrubs blossom, when the sunlight grows stronger, when we feel the wild desires of life rise up within us just as the fire of life is rising up through the Earth. Taurus gives form to that fire of Life and those necessities that make for a good life: food, shelter, sex, security, peace and prosperity. Yes, Taurus can be indulgent and sensuous, reveling in the goodness of material life. And that makes it a perfect match for Scorpio's need to let go of what's dead, because we have to clean out if we want to savor the good things in life.
So what happens when we're in the time of death and the Full Moon of Taurus shines down on us? We embrace those primal values of life and hope! As we go into the Dark, we take with us the memory of Life -- of the body and of the Earth. That is what we retain when we let the rest go.
Jupiter in Scorpio is intimately connected to this Full Moon, adding his expansive energies to the process of release and accelerating transformation. Jupiter will be in Scorpio for a year, stirring up the depths, expanding our awareness of how our emotional life separates us from or unites us with others.
This Taurus Full Moon is blessed by a sextile (60*) to Neptune in Pisces, which also trines (120*) the Scorpio Sun, adding imagination, opportunities, luck and spiritual insights to the mix. With Scorpio's deep, penetrating vision, we can let go of the superfluous and give the Goddess her due, while holding on to the eternal. Pluto adds his power to this Full Moon as well, trining the Taurus Moon from Capricorn and sextiling the Sun. These aspects to the Full Moon offer us opportunities to both incorporate new knowledge from our experiences as well as reshaping ourselves and our world through using our intuition and self-expression.
Finally, Ceres, the ancient Mother Goddess, squares (90*) this Full Moon from Leo, forcing us to look at where we ignore our creative voice and abandon ourselves in the face of opposition, rather than descending into the underworld and allowing ourselves to 'not know' for awhile. Ceres, like her Greek counterpart Demeter, understands the rage, despair and anger that comes from losing what is most precious to us. Let her help us honor those places in us that mourn for what never was and then move on to the wisdom that comes from letting go of those feelings so we can get on with Life.
Venus, the ruler of our Taurus Full Moon, is also in the spotlight. Venus in Libra opposes Uranus in Aries around the same degree as the Libra New Moon a few weeks ago. Be open to new and different relationships but even more important, wake up to your own beauty, self-worth and power. Now is not the time to hide your light under a bushel.
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