The Cosmic Story: Taurus New
Moon 2018
Uranus Enters Taurus
Awakening Earth Consciousness
A human being is a part of
a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part
limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest . . . a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to
us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein
Uranus in Taurus
This month’s Taurus New Moon
is energized by Uranus’ entry into Taurus. When Mother Earth is
impregnated by Father Sky, new life is born. Our new creation story
begins to take shape. New archetypal energies can take root now and
start to grow. The Earth herself awakens and so do we. The Aries
fire that Uranus has been cooking in for the past 7 years will now
engender new forms of being – both personally and collectively –
as it journeys through Taurus from May 15 – November 6th
2018 and for the next 7
years starting in March 2019.
Uranus orbits on its side
When Uranus changes signs,
major world events occur. Back when Uranus left Pisces and entered
Aries on March 11, 2011, there was the earthquake and tsunami in
Japan, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster (Pisces water and
Aries fire). Perhaps the explosion of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano
this week is a foreshadowing of some of the Earth changes coming our
way (Aries fire and Taurus earth).
With Uranus’ propensity for
unexpected shocks and radical innovations, it’s best to prepare
yourselves for major external changes. Uranus, the Great Awakener,
rules freedom, reformers, rebels,
liberation, higher
consciousness and the
archetypes, as well as science and technology. As the archetype of
the higher Mind, one geared toward the future, its energy will bring
us unique and original ideas that can move our society into the
future. It certainly shakes up the status quo, infusing us with the
fires of the heavenly, archetypal Mind, rebelling against rules that
no longer apply.
Taurus is the fixed earth
sign, the form-giver, the builder. Taurus loves stability and
consistency and does not like change! Uranus is the cosmic life
force of change. With this combination, we can play and build
something new, something unique, something archetypal in our 3D world
over the next 7 years. Or we can struggle to keep the status quo,
only to find that what we thought was stable will shatter if it can’t
bend.
Work with Uranus in Taurus by
making small changes in your habits. Learn something new, change
your hairstyle, get rid of things you don’t love. Get in your body
and exercise, dance, plant a garden. It will relieve tension and
open you up to new
energies. This is the
energy that will get you out of your rut if you work with it. If you
fight the change, it will disrupt your life and take away what you
think you need. But in the end it will bring you to the place you
want to be.
Find Taurus in your birth
chart and see where this awakening power is taking root for you. Be
open to the unpredictable and the unknown.
In America’s 4th
of July chart, this New Moon occurs in the 6th
house of work and workers, health, service, and the common man.
Let’s see if we get people back to work on our infrastructure and
health care.
Taurus
Taurus is symbolized by the
Bull of the Mother, the pulsing, throbbing, desiring energy of Life.
Taurus is concerned with values, the values that make life worth
living. Taurus is also concerned with our self-worth and our talents.
With this New Moon, we can plant a seed to help us develop our
unique talents. It’s also a good time to work with our senses,
which are often shut down in our plastic society. How many of us are
really sensual?
Our religions have make sensuality a sin. It’s time to develop a
new relationship to our senses, for they can teach us about life in
this time of change.
Hathor
In ancient Egypt, this was the
Golden Calf belonging to the goddess Hathor. Hathor was the goddess
of joy, music, dance, love, fertility and motherhood, worshipped in
her form of the divine cow or as a woman with horns surrounding the
Sun disk and Uraeus. A later form of the original Sun goddess,
Sekhmet, she is a fitting goddess for Taurus, for Taurus wants to
enjoy the beauty and sensuality of life. Taurus does this because it
knows that life itself is a form of Spirit and that Mother Earth is
alive and conscious.
Taurus is also symbolized by
the Garden. The Garden of sensual delight, of peace and fertility,
the Garden paradise we all long for. We can reclaim our connection
to this earthly paradise when we listen to and observe the world
around us and understand how it feels
to us. Relating
to our environment and the Earth through our senses cause us to
understand things through our feeling
nature.
We are called to deepen our
consciousness, widening it so we can learn to listen to and respond
to Earth’s dreaming. The shift comes when we leave behind our
left-brain rationality and open to our right-brain imagination. In
feeling
the deeper realities in life, in a story, in Nature, we are opening
the doors of perception in ways we haven’t done since early
childhood.
Our feeling
sense is what we
use when we listen to music or drop into a good story or fall in
love. It’s not something we can easily put into words, but it
writes itself in our bodies and our feeling nature. Every physical
object evokes a different feeling
that makes it uniquely itself. It is through our feeling
sense that we access information from our visual, auditory, olfactory
senses. How something feels
helps us access the metaphysical background of the world.1
Stephen
Harrod Buhner in his book, 1Plant
Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm,
calls this feeling
dimension the
secret kinesis of things,
something sensed beyond the visual, tactile dimension of the
experience. This is what we have to relearn if we really want to
discover the Spirit in Matter. We have to relate to our world on a
feeling
level.
And by feeling,
I don’t mean emotions such as anger, jealousy or happiness. It’s
Jung’s feeling
function, where
we evaluate people and situations on a feeling
level.
Like
Taurus’ relationship to values, we get to feel
out what
affects us.
So
this New Moon in Taurus, with Uranus’ entry into Taurus hours
later, offers us an opportunity to expand our consciousness by giving
value to this feeling
sense
that can deepen our experiences of life. We need it if we’re going
to honor Mother Earth and listen to her wisdom.
Taurus New Moon 2018
The Taurus New Moon occurs on
Tuesday May 15, 2018 at 4:48am PDT/ 7:48am EDT/ 11:48am GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 25* Taurus is: A
vast public park.
This park is a place of
collective enjoyment, a place to experience nature’s energies for
relaxation and community. While going into the wild might not be
available for everyone, there are places all around us where we can
connect with Mother Earth.
Venus,
the ruler of Taurus, is at 26* Gemini. Her Sabian symbol is:
Frost-covered
trees against winter skies.
There’s something archetypal about bare trees in Winter, as well
as the immediate experience of the cycle of the seasons. We have to
get to the essential nature of things – ourselves, the Earth, each
other. Venus is joined by Pallas, the strategist, so find your
allies and plot your course into the new world that’s on the
horizon.
This
New Moon forms the waning square of last August’s Total Solar
Eclipse – a time to find those essential seeds we want to bring
into the next cycle of life. If the eclipse heralded a new feeling
birth – A
Mermaid emerges from the ocean waves ready for rebirth in human form
– this New Moon indicates that we have to connect to our essential
nature and Earth’s nature to shape that new form. With Uranus’
entry into Taurus, make sure your new birth is uniquely your own.
The
New Moon is opposed by Jupiter retrograde in Scorpio, demanding that
we stop projecting our issues and own our shadows. It also calls us
out of our collective trauma and into a renewed sense of hope and
love. Nature heals. Even the shadow. If you’re in relationship,
it’s time to acknowledge if your partner is enhancing your life or
draining it. Partnerships are supposed to bring out the best in us,
each partner feeding the other’s best interests. If they’re not,
perhaps it’s time to take a break and recenter yourself in your
Self.
Jupiter
in Scorpio trines Neptune in Pisces, so our imagination and our
spiritual vision will be open. This New Moon wants us to imagine a
different world, one of peace, plenty and community. It’s a good
time to meditate on that future.
The
New Moon is enhanced by both Pluto and Mars in Capricorn, adding
their dynamism to the forms we imagine we want to create. Mars is
our will and desire nature, our assertion and aggressive instincts.
Pluto is evolutionary power, like the lava flowing in Hawaii. When
they work together, nothing can stop them. Or they can cause
frustration and annoyance. What do we need to make our life whole?
What will give us the most pleasure and joy? Don’t
be afraid to go for it.
Mars
enters Aquarius hours after the New Moon and makes the first of 3
squares to Uranus in the early hours of May 16th.
Since Mars rules Aries, perhaps we’ll see the results of Uranus’
time in Aries. Have you awakened to your archetypal purpose? Do you
know who you are and what gifts you bring to the collective? Or it
can bring about war and tensions, which we’re already seeing around
the world regarding Iran. Mars turns retrograde on June 26th
and it will revisit these degrees to make sure we got our directions
straight. How do you envision your future life? Start to see the
big picture now so you can make the right choices for that new life.
Saturn and Vesta in Capricorn
trine Mercury in Taurus conjunct Uranus. These energies will
hopefully temper Uranus’ erratic nature and help us see what we
need to do in order to ground in our visions.
Stay centered in your inner
Self and grounded in the Earth. While the world seems to be
descending into chaos, know that you are the one grounding in the
stillpoint, the center. That’s the real security that Taurus
craves.
Walk in the beauty of the
Earth,
Cathy
1. Stephen Harrod Buhner,
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, (Rochester,
Vermont. Bear & Company, 2014), p. 270.
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