Thursday, May 10, 2018

The Cosmic Story: Taurus New Moon 2018, Uranus in Taurus

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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Copyright Cathy Pagano 2018

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