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The New Moon in Taurus!! May 15th thru June 13th |
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The New Moon in Taurus!! May 15th thru June 13th |
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If you know the astrological positions in your Natal Chart, the best use of the information here comes from reading the entries for your Sun Sign, your Moon Sign, your Ascendant Sign . . . and the sign where any other significant cluster of Natal Planets is located.
Rebecca's note: In both astronomy and astrology, the celestial phenomenon known as the New Moon occurs at the moment the Sun and the Moon occupy exactly the same point in the sky-map of the Zodiac. The Sun takes approximately one month to travel through one sign of the Zodiac. In this same amount of time, the Moon travels through all twelve signs of the Zodiac . . . changing signs about once every two and a half days. A New Moon, occurs, therefore, about every 30 days.
In astrology, the metaphors of the various planet placements at the time of the occurrence describe the experiences, interests and themes of the coming 4+ weeks in everyone's life -- influenced as always by these same placements in a person's Natal chart, the map of the sky at the time of birth. (Like placing a transparency on a picture, and gaining thereby an altered, or perhaps more dimensional, picture.)
The metaphor of the New Moon, this monthly "alliance" of the two most individually significant celestial bodies, denotes a renewed alignment of one's sense of personal direction and one's sense of emotional commitment. True, the focus changes -- as do the characteristics of this applied energy -- in an orderly and progressive way throughout the year. With the passing of Aries energy, and its emphasis on new beginnings, initiation, inspiration, pioneering, and "planting seeds," the next phase is Taurus energy, a time of growth, development, solidifying, stabilizing, and becoming secure in the material world. The Sun / Moon conjunction -- the New Moon in Taurus, on May 15 -- moves the "new beginnings" . . . into this stage of the creative process.
The New Moon in Taurus denotes a time of things -- including such intangible things as ideas, projects, ambitions and goals -- "becoming real," beginning to take shape in the material world, becoming "physical and tangible," and finding the resources that will be needed to promote growth and insure survival in that level of reality. Taurus energy is stable, unflappable, practical, dependable, patient, nurturing, concerned with tangible goals and with solidifying those things which are taking root in the material world. It is steady, determined, purposeful, resistant to change (as in, stubborn), possessive, loyal, and gentle. Properly expressed, it operates to provide a safe, serene environment in which new life and newly created efforts can prosper and flourish.
When this kind of energy is not well-integrated into a personal chart, or when it conflicts with more preferred strategies, the results show themselves in actions and attitudes that are lazy, self-indulgent, wasteful, extravagant, unbalanced on a material level (either ostentatious and status-conscious or stingy and manipulative with money and other resources), greedy, selfish, jealous, vain, and far too concerned with luxuries and sensual enjoyment.
With the extraordinarily constructive energy of Saturn now in transit through Taurus, this year and next are extremely valuable times of building and establishing new long-term efforts for all members of this naturally peace-loving, conservative and durable sign. Taurus placements are also part of (and being directly affected by) the fixed T-square that has formed twice in the sky now, between Saturn in Taurus, Mars in Scorpio (now Rx in late Libra) and Neptune / Uranus now in Aquarius. There is a great feeling of needing to "build,""push" and "take action" . . . which also feels blocked and frustrated for the moment in many ways . . . causing a lot of stress in everyone's life presently, which won't fully resolve itself until August / September of this year For the moment, this configuration has loosened up a bit, and thus some of the repressed anger it represents has subsided a little, as people look for "new avenues of approach" to the blockages and obstacles they feel they have encountered in the pursuit of their personal goals for the past several months.
The New Moon in Taurus this year is at 24 degrees of the sign. If you have an important personal placement near that point, this month may be especially significant for you.. In fact, if you have an important personal placement near 24 degrees of ANY sign, this New Moon event takes on special meaning. But since we must deal in more general terms here, I present the following notes for the experiences, interests and themes possible for the various signs this month.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN ARIES: Financial matters are very much in focus this month, along with all the practical aspects of income issues, concerns for earning capacity and spending habits, matters of tangible assets and possessions. These may be very personal and emotional interests this month -- and with your volatile temperament, you may be unusually "touchy" and even worried about these topics. The ongoing frustration and the anger in these areas of your life may feel quite significant now, especially as you probably feel blocked by the non-cooperation (or perhaps even the active interference) of "someone else" and that person's dedication to his own interests.
"Ramming" through in your usual fashion hasn't met with much success on these fronts yet this year -- and so between now and August, you will be looking for new options and new avenues to follow in pursuit of these desires. Security concerns and an ongoing anxiety level about money, possessions and finances are a major part of the equation for you now, and you are emotionally focused and personally committed to stabilizing and building in this area of your life at the moment.
There is a lot of organized thought being put forth presently, perhaps with "new learning" or "consultation with experts" as part of the mix. You may even be forming some kind of new personal alliances or "re-defined partnership" in a working relationship to help you accomplish your goals. You are looking to really structure your ideas and information regarding money -- its acquisition and the uses to which you put it -- in ways that will serve you well for quite a while into the future. There is also just a great deal of plain "hard work" going on for you, possibly in conjunction with some significant "other people," with this result as your ultimate aim.
This partnership itself may be a source of tension and occasional conflict, because you have projected a lot of your own energy onto the "other person(s)" -- and you are both expecting and depending on them to "perform" -- according to your plans. They, however, may be pursuing some of their own objectives and ideas -- and thus there can be more a sense of "working at cross-purposes" . . . than of genuine agreement and pulling in the same direction.
Again, it will be at least September before progress enough to comfort you begins to manifest. And in the meantime, the ongoing anxiety itself (and the stress this causes, of course) could qualify as one of your biggest problems. All this expansion that's going on for you . . . has a broader scope than you probably realized at first. Putting the proper pieces in place takes considerable time and effort. And let's face it, you're not the most patient person in the world to begin with. So the sense of urgency -- which you can't seem to shake, no matter what your good intentions -- is about to drive you nuts.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN TAURUS: Your emphasis for the next month is on thinking, learning, studying, communicating, exchanging information and opinions with others, and solidifying your own beliefs and ideas about how best to move out into the world and take on significant new responsibilities for yourself. Your life has reached (or is about to reach) a time of assuming major and serious long-term goals, and since you aren't known as a person who "rushes into things" . . . you're organizing your plans to your satisfaction before deciding just how to move into the opportunities and advantages that are setting themselves up in your world.
Life has gotten a lot more serious for you lately, bringing a new sense of ambition and a new determination to really "make something of yourself" -- in a much more permanent way than in the past, or on a much grander scale than what you've built previously. Those of you with late April and early May birthdays are feeling this very strongly now, and are implementing practical strategies for progress, while those with the mid-May birthdays are still in the deep planning stages that will launch them before long on this path as well.
You may all feel a tremendous work load bearing down on you this month -- as if there just aren't enough hours in the day to meet all your commitments . . . but in your traditional desire to "do it all" and meet your agreements and obligations, you are trying your best to shoulder the load. You will however, have to strip away some of the traditional structures in your life soon to make room for all the "new stuff" you're needing to take on, so it might be wiser to let this happen naturally, than to try to resist the change and hold on to everything in sight.
Believe it or not, you can even be too possessive about your obligations and commitments. But with the new things that are coming into your life -- beginning this month and for the next couple of years, not even you can be "all things to all people" . . . although given your temperament and social generosity, you may still give it your best try.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN GEMINI: This is a strangely quiet month for your normally flashy and exuberant sign. You may have just decided to sit back, breathe deeply and watch the world go by from a quiet, secluded corner, for a change. Or you may have a lot on your mind, the kind of thinking best done in private contemplation -- and so you perhaps have pulled back deliberately to give yourself this kind of "space" and opportunity for unhampered thought.
It's also possible you're simply feeling hemmed in and exhausted. These past few months haven't been easy ones for anybody, and you especially, with your natural tendency to be "always on the go," always into something new . . . have felt the frustration perhaps more than those with more patience and capacity for enduring stress and delay.
It might help to know that this month is designed to be a time of quiet seclusion for you on one level. Not even you can burn at full strength all the time -- although, Lord know, you're inclined to try. But there is, in the natural cycle of progress, a requirement for some automatic, or "built-in" downtime . . . and this month, that's what's on the agenda for you. You would be wise to pay attention to this, because you are desperate need of some restoration and recovery. As I said, life's been tough lately . . . for everyone. But you operate at such a high pitch to begin with, that long-term frustrations of this sort send you into "over-drive" . . . making it hard for you to pull back and do something different for a while.
Whoever formulated the law that a body in motion tends to remain in motion . . . was describing you more, I'm sure, than he knew or intended. But those tactics are not always virtues. If you don't pull back and surrender to the impulse to find yourself some healing peace and quiet for these next several weeks . . . you will be unnecessarily handicapped when it's time to "re-enter the race" . . . which it will be next month. It's better to use this energy as a time of "retreat" . . . than of "confined circumstances." Because it will become the latter . . . if you keep pushing the river at this point.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN CANCER: This is a month for giving a lot of attention to your hopes and dreams for the future, your "vision" of what you want to make of your life, and your fulfillment of your "ideals." You can do a tremendous amount of solid, constructive thinking along those lines in the next four weeks. And if you spend some time mining the gold of your social network, you may come up with some very good ideas, bits of advice and expertise, even perhaps some valuable new contacts with people in positions to really help you succeed in what you've decided you want to do.
This is a month to formulate some conservative, organized new goals . . . the kind that will take a year or so to develop . . . and then prepare to go into the planning phases of such new ventures next month. This is a time to look for inspiration and be focused on the future . . . which isn't always easy for your sign -- being as fond as you are of traditions, memories, "the way things have always been," and other links to the past. True, this sentimental side of your character makes "adopted family members" out of your close friends, and nourishes the emotional support you and these special people are able to offer one another. But for the time being, your focus needs to be on "tomorrow" rather than "yesterday."
You may find this month that an atmosphere of "professional pay-off" is especially prominent -- either because you are feeling proud of your more recent accomplishments, or because you're gaining new notions of what you want to do "to build for the future" . . . and certainly your career is a prominent feature of such possibilities. You may also find the next four weeks contain moments of sudden inspiration, when new thoughts, ideas, perspectives and concepts strike "out of the blue." In fact, some very exciting and valuable insights may be the actual "gift" this month brings for you . . . perhaps as compensation for all the aggravation that's also afoot right now.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN LEO: This month your career, profession, "contribution to society," community standing and public reputation are highlighted -- and since you are never one to shrink from conspicuous public attention, you likely will enjoy a lot of fine moments as you mine the opportunities that come to you now for all they're worth. This may mark some episode of "preliminary glory" before the arrival of serious new responsibilities and other "long-term public structures" in this area of your life.
In fact, over the next couple of years, you'll be reaching a professional peak where your authority and expertise are prominently showcased. It's hard to imagine how all this public glory might be considered burdensome for someone who enjoys "showing off" as much as you do . . . but its demands will become formidable over the time I've mentioned. You may never let on to others how heavy this load actually feels for you -- but it will be hard to hide the toll it takes in your private moments, and perhaps the lack of time it leaves for attention to your personal life.
Still, your career and public life are where you are finding both your ego focus and emotional support this month -- both of which provide nourishment for that dramatic, publicity-craving spirit that we all know you to be. And some measure of actual "fame" -- or perhaps "notoriety," would be the word in a few instances -- may attach itself to the services you provide, the contributions you make out into the world, and the honors, trophies and prestige that may accumulate for a while now on your side of the scoreboard.
True, your crown may occasionally feel heavy . . . but for this month, at least, I have a feeling you'll somehow manage to bear up!
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN VIRGO: This is a month of personal expansion and serious learning opportunities for you, a sign that prides itself on "a job well done" . . . and generally "taking care of business." Experiences of "teaching and learning" may somehow be prominently featured -- and they may come in a variety of formats, including reading, travel, actual academic study, contact with "new and different ways of viewing the world," serious philosophical discussions, and / or a general review of "how you see the world and how you abide by the rules you value."
In the broadest sense, this month is a time of contact with "expertise" in all guises -- your own and that of others. Themes of religion, philosophy, law, "rules for living," issues of social conscience, sharing of accumulated personal wisdom, consideration of theoretical and abstract knowledge . . . all these may have some influence on the experiences you encounter this month. You may find yourself confronting an ethical dilemma (or an example of this in someone else) or a crisis of conscience. You may also find a distinct moment or grasping some valuable new "personal truth," piece of wisdom or spiritual truth.
You may also find yourself changing places between the role of student and that of teacher with startling frequency . . . for we are all constantly playing both parts simultaneously. This fact will just be a little more obvious to you this month. You may be able to exchange experiences and knowledge with a number of people in the next four weeks . . . and later find this personal "storehouse of information" is more worthwhile than you imagined at the time. For this reason, stay open to contact with new acquaintances -- especially people with "their own story to tell." And listen to what others may have to tell you, even in casual remarks and general conversation. The little nuggets of truth you'll need in the days ahead may fall into your keeping anytime . . . anywhere.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN LIBRA: The energy for you this month may seem very complex, convoluted and generally "hard to fathom." With Mars retrograding back into your sign, you may find yourself in situations of "doing work over" . . . because the first completion of the job wasn't large enough in scope . . . or because the demands of the situation it was originally meant to satisfy have changed.
In any case . . . tasks (some of them quite large and perhaps personally important) that you thought were "done" . . . aren't. And thus you are in this "redoing" phase . . . which may be exciting and creative . . . but which also takes time, energy, thought . . . and resources that you might would have rather invested elsewhere. Let's call this a mixed blessing at best for the moment. This "renovation" of some personal ambition may be quite worthwhile in time . . . but it is delaying the rewards you'd hoped to be gathering in already . . . and your patience may be wearing thin at this point.
You may also feel you are facing some "personal crisis" . . . or perhaps even a personal breaking point, depending on how serious things are in your life which are prompting this "redoing" of your assertiveness and other avenues of approach. This may, in fact, mark a time of considerable change in your life -- a time of "ending and beginning anew" in some important area . . . and again, depending on the severity of what is being altered, there may even be a sense of "emergency" that marks the next four weeks.
You may find yourself facing what amounts to a "power struggle" . . . that is extremely taxing to deal with. Issues of "community property" . . . or "jointly held assets" may be part of the mix as well. On a more abstract level, you may be having to take "other people's values" into account in ways that require considerable "adjustment" to find the right compromise -- a word dear to your heart.
You may be having to form alliances in which you pool your talents and abilities with those of others for some "mutual benefit" . . . or you may be reviewing (or discovering) the ways in which you "invest" yourself and your assets. You may also find yourself having to "release" something you've held onto for a long time . . . in order for something new to take its place. Such moments, of course, are part of life's natural cycle . . . but they are certainly not always easy.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN SCORPIO: Your involvement in a close personal relationship (or your obligation to deal with the needs of a close personal partner) will be very prominent this month. Your sign has a reputation for being extremely solitary and self-contained . . . but the fact is, "other people" . . . and especially what you can form in conjunction with other people . . . play an extremely important role in your life -- just not always an overt or obvious one.
You may have found yourself in conflict with partners recently . . . since your sign is one of those prominently featured in the Fixed T-Square, I keep mentioning . . . between Mars (now retrograding in Scorpio / Libra), Saturn in Taurus, and Uranus in Aquarius. You may be trying to accomplish something that's not "completely out in the open" at this time . . . and be facing a lot of frustration in the process.
On the one hand, you are dealing with "work issues" . . . where you are putting in a LOT of effort that so far has gone unrewarded . . . maybe even unappreciated . . . but which has certainly been tremendously burdensome for you to handle. On the other hand, you may be dealing with a partner who is unavailable, troublesome, or whose attentions are fixed on issues that don't always seem compatible with what you are trying to accomplish.
This month, therefore, may mark a time when you "stand in the other person's shoes" for a while, in order to orient your perspective on the benefits and perspectives of the partnership itself . . . rather than just pushing to get your own agenda satisfied. This new emphasis, actually, comes at a rather convenient moment, because the frustrating "lack of progress" described by the T-Square . . . has loosened up a bit, meaning you can step back, find other paths by which to accomplish your intentions and desires . . . and start moving forward again after Mars goes direct on June 4.
Given that this personal alliance you are dealing with may be quite important to you, it never hurts to have the chance to see the other person's concerns and perspectives . . . and to strengthen your commitment to "mutual goals" . . . which is what the opportunities of this month will provide.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN SAGITTARIUS: Work issues have your attention this month -- work of all kinds, not just the job you do "for money," but chores, favors, things you do for other people, little "services" that make you feel useful and which fill up your life. You are also paying close attention to the kind of work you do, the details of that work, the variety you find in it, the various aspects of it, including the environment in which it is performed and the relationships you have with colleagues, clients, customers, subordinates, associates, and such.
You are looking for ways to structure the elements you find here much more to your satisfaction . . . including how to either delegate or discard permanently the things that you can get rid of in order to make yourself more efficient. You may have come to realize just how valuable your services are in the things you have to offer, but that you are spread far too thin in many areas, and thus your efficiency is compromised. You may have just taken on "way too much" . . . over the past few months, so that now trying to be "all things to all people" is a burden you really can no longer shoulder.
Those of you born in the early part of the sign -- the late November Sagittarius birthdays -- may have gotten the glimpse of a serious new project coming into your work experience . . . something that will take a LOT of effort over the next couple of years to bring to a satisfactory conclusion. You may even realize you have a lot of "learning" to do in order to perform well here . . . and so life in your work situation has taken on a distinctly serious tone. Also, you probably don't fully grasp how much work is going to be involved here and how much effort required of you. It will be considerable. But for now, take things one step at a time. This is the only reasonable strategy for dealing with what lies ahead.
For the December-born Sagittarius birthdays, this level of work-load is still in the future. This month will be just a glimpse of things to come and so not as significant as the New Moon in Taurus next year will be. But your turn is coming. If you have the chance to enjoy some leisure at this point, take it. It will be time to buckle down and get serious soon enough.
For all of you, pay attention to the way the stress levels in your life are affecting your health. It may really be time to develop ways of taking better care of yourself physically and emotionally. Your natural optimism often leads you to "assume the best," it's true. But some practical attention to things like diet and rest . . . would certainly benefit you now.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN CAPRICORN: Ongoing responsibilities regarding (or that affect) your home situation, family circle and private life continue to be very much on your mind as you go about your daily routine. Those of you born in the early part of the sign, (the late December Capricorn birthdays) are just completing an extended time of hard work structuring and establishing the situation you want for yourselves in this very important part of your personal world.
You have spent a couple of years in "consolidation and construction" in order to have the foundation you need to move on into more long-term goals in the next 15 to 20 years. Being a sign that plans for the future, you understand the importance of the right "home base" from which to operate, and you've been busy making sure that was done right . . . and fortified so it would last as needed.
Those of you born in the middle of the sign -- the early January Capricorn birthdays -- are in the middle of this process, and those born late in the sign -- the mid-January Capricorn birthdays -- have well over 18 months more work awaiting you here in order to get things settled properly. None of you shrink from hard work or the challenges that go with extensive projects such as this . . . but you can forget to stop and smell the roses, being so caught up in your empire-building pursuits.
This month is the time to do exactly that . . . step back and let yourself play a while. Spend time with your children, if you have them-- just remembering what it's like to be a kid yourself again. Let your mind roam over the possibilities of creative leisure that often are shelved as "too frivolous" . . . or that often have to wait "until tomorrow" . . . when you consider how serious life can be at times. This is a time when some new artistic or emphatically "personal" effort could occur to you . . . and take solid root in order to grow over the next several months.
Or you may discover how to creatively express something that is already part of your world in a new and dramatic way . . . so as to bring you some valuable "publicity" or other attention. If you get the chance to enjoy the limelight this month . . . or just enjoy some relaxing "downtime" . . . don't let it slip away. Some of life's most inspirational moments can come when you just let yourself "go" for a bit, permit the space in the hectic schedule you usually keep to "drift and dream." As I said, this could be a very creative and significant month for you . . . the chance to grab something new to enjoy. Don't waste it being "sober and serious." It's way too easy for you to do that, if you're not careful.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN AQUARIUS: You are involved with family and home this month . . . which may be somewhat unusual for you unless you have strong "family connections" in your natal chart. You are much more an "out and about" kind of person, cherishing your independence and needing to keep in touch (lightly at least) with your friends and acquaintainces . . . just to stay current on the latest social developments. But even you . . . the social butterfly of the Zodiac . . . have deep emotional needs, and this month they may assert themselves enough that you can't push them aside easily at all.
If you don't have a strong family structure, you may find this is a month when you really miss that in your life, when nostalgia and sentimentality are uncommonly prominent in your musings and "wishful thinking." You may spend more time just being "at home" this month than you are normally. You may take up some "home based" or home improvement project to occupy yourself and express some of your more "emotional" interests.
You may be looking for some close personal connections -- perhaps in a "feeling of family" among your friends, if, again, you don't have such a network of actual relations already in place. If you do have a family foundation to retreat into, you may be deeply involved with their interests, their feelings, their needs . . . as a way of connecting with and satisfying your own. As I said, it's an "emotional" month . . . and there is an inescapable "vulnerability" that goes with being so exposed or so involved with other people.
You are looking to "mother" someone perhaps . . . in that distinctively caring way associated with nurturing female energy. And conversely, you are looking for that in return somehow . . . whether you have to provide that for yourself or if there are others who are willing to fill that role for you as needed. Your moods may be more noticeable . . . and your need for love in all its more tender and sensitive expressions. It may also be a month when your emphatically future-oriented self . . . realizes that "the past" is also an indispensable part of life, because it contains the roots from which the future flowers.
And so you may also find moments to pay attention to things like memories, traditions, sentimental gestures . . . and other small episodes of comfort and connection. As I said, this isn't all that "normal" for pure Aquarius energy . . . but the variety, if nothing else, should make it appealing, nevertheless.
IF YOUR SUN, MOON OR ASCENDANT IS IN PISCES: This month, your use of your mind and communication skills are highlighted. This is a time when you likely feel the need to think, talk, learn, exchange opinions and ideas with others, move around, explore different thoughts and viewpoints, and actively, consciously gather information in ways that may be "different" from your often reclusive and contemplative nature.
Pisces energy is not all that overtly mobile . . . or social, in its pure expression. It prefers to view life from a more background position -- and if you are known for being "out in the world" . . . that ability comes from some other area of your chart. But this month . . . your mental energy, your desire to exchange knowledge with others, or just the desire to "show off" some of your intellectual achievements . . . may put you at the center of more conversations than usual.
It's also a month when your busy mind may drop some new perspectives and possibilities in your lap . . . the kind that just beg for exploration and attention. It might not be a bad idea to take actual notes of the things that "flash past" in your random thoughts and vivid imaginings. That powerful subconscious mind that you have such easy access to may be trying to tell you some things that will make your life more pleasant and interesting . . . if you are willing to pay attention.
Some of the ideas you're hatching may seem far-fetched, or even premature . . . but they could also prove to be nuggets of real potential. Until you know for sure, until you give them a fair chance to show their worth, it might just pay you to keep track of them . . . with a little formal structure -- like a list, or jottings in your journal. You're especially good at making use of your creative inspirations in the conduct of your daily life. So giving the notions that arrive for your review that kind of special notice this month is a most constructive way of nourishing this raw material and helping it evolve into the valuable offering that would go untapped if you just dismissed your own daydreams and fantasies.
Fortunately, you know that dreams and visions contain the seeds of eventual reality . . . and you traditionally treat these things with the proper respect. Giving yourself some deliberate time this month to just "sit and think" . . . and collect the intuitions that come to you for future development . . . would be a marvelous way to make the most of this highly productive time. You are used to listening to your inner voices and feelings. This month, for sure, that is a very good habit to cultivate.
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