The Cosmic
Story: Taurus Full Moon: Mercury conjunct the Sun
Listening
Within For What Fulfills Us
Harvest
This Scorpio season started off with a bang. The
Scorpio New Moon on October 27th was opposed by Uranus in
Taurus, breaking down our emotional barriers so something new and
interesting can occur. Did the week of Halloween/Samhain bring you
unexpected insights? Was your intuition especially strong then? On
the Day of the Dead, could you connect with any ancestor spirits
hanging around?
Uranus tilts to the side
Uranus is the closest it gets to Earth all year and if
you live under a dark sky, you can even see it dimly shining between
the constellations of Taurus and Aries. Being close to Earth, Uranus
brings us the unexpected and unusual and can make you more rebellious
than usual. Since Scorpio stands opposite Taurus, these two signs
resonate together, so they'll both be vibrating at high levels for
the next 6 years. In fact, all the fixed signs will be vibrating at
higher levels.
While the Scorpio New Moon was intense, the energy calms
down a bit as we get to this week's Taurus Full Moon. Taurus likes
to take things at a leisurely pace. Peace, love and the sensual
pleasures make for a happy Taurus Full Moon. The Moon is 'exalted'
in Taurus, meaning that its energies are powerful now, so take
advantage of its bright light next Monday night. Shut off your
technological toys and go out into nature – not matter how cold it
is. A Taurus Moon bath will open you up to the pleasures of being
alive.
Frosty Taurus Full Moon
How can you find your own inner peace in these
tumultuous times? Turn within and dive deep! As you know, the only
way to really change the world is to change yourself. With the
Taurus Full Moon, we are reminded that it is the quality of the
things we want that is more important than the quantity of what we
have. Enjoy what you have to the fullest. Open all your senses.
Live large!
Scorpio brings us passion and intensity and the ability
to dive deeply into our emotional hangups. The Taurus Full Moon
wants to release those hangups and replace them with promise. The
promise that something new is on the horizon. Taurus is the Builder
of the zodiac. So build something new to last.
The Taurus Full Moon occurs on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 5:34am PST/ 8:34am EST/ 1:34pm GMT.
The Taurus Full Moon occurs on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 5:34am PST/ 8:34am EST/ 1:34pm GMT.
The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 20* Taurus is: Wisps
of clouds, like wings, are streaming across the sky.
This is an image of mystical self-expression and awareness. Use
the power of the imagination to see the positive future.
The Sabian symbol for
the Sun at 20* Scorpio is: A woman flings open dark
curtains closing sacred pathways. A
mystery revealed. It's
time to look at the spiritual legacy you brought into life with you.
The Moon's helpful trine to Saturn and Pluto in
Capricorn turns our eyes to the things that really give us peace and
pleasure. As we approach the end of the Saturn/Pluto cycle, we
prepare ourselves for a new way of living by really getting down to
the nitty-gritty truth of what makes for a happy life. By now, we
all know that 'things' can't fill up the empty places in us. As the
Beatles sang more than 50 years ago “money can't buy you love”.
The Taurus Moon asks us to take time for ourselves. I
am being reminded of its sensual energy by my new kitten. She loves
to stretch her little body and delights in my petting. She loves to
play and explore. Everything is interesting. She snuggles up against
my neck and face and purrs loudly when I go to sleep. She is
bringing me back to my own pleasure in my body, stretching and moving
and hugging and loving. That's Taurus energy!
On November 8th, Neptune retrograde in Pisces
and Saturn in Capricorn sextile for the 3rd time.
Whenever these two opposing energies sextile, it makes it easier for
us to bring Spirit (Neptune) down to Earth (Saturn). Saturn provides
a container for all that Neptunian energy and imagination. This is a
great time to write, paint, dance, make music. Art as a spiritual
discipline! Play with these cosmic energies while you can.
Neptune in Pisces is a big player in this Taurus/Scorpio
Full Moon chart. It trines the Scorpio Sun and sextiles the Taurus
Moon. What this means is that the imagination, spiritual vision and
going with the flow are easily available to us now. What do you do
with your imagination? Worry and fear are the negative use of the
Imagination. Our task is to stop getting caught up in the collective
chaos of politics – let the politicians play. Our task is to
ground in Spirit and let its light shine out of each of us.
It is always darkest before the dawn.
Mercury
passes over the face of the Sun\
Mercury
is making a rare pass (about 13 in a century) over the face of the
Sun on Monday, November 11th
in the morning hours in the States. It's exactly in the middle of
the Sun at 10:22am EST and 7:22am PST. When the Sun lights up
Mercury in this way, we could say that symbolically we need to pay
more attention to how we think and talk about ideas and people, about
how we process our lives and about how we communicate in general. We
need to recognize and see where we aren't speaking out truth. Since
this rare event occurs in the water sign of Scorpio, we might want to
process what's going on inside through any of the arts. Once again,
we see the truth that art is a path to our spirituality and growth.
Mercury retrograde transiting the Sun
The
Sabian symbol for Mercury retrograde conjunct the Sun at 19* Scorpio
is: A wise old
parrot repeats the conversation he overheard. There's
a transmission of knowledge available today if you turn within and
listen.
And
speaking of truth, the planet Jupiter is on the degree of the
galactic center on this Full Moon. Jupiter in Sagittarius wants to
seek out the truth and live by it. Jupiter is ending his year long
stay in his own sign of Sagittarius on December 2, 2019, when it
enters Capricorn and proceeds to catch up with Pluto by April 2020
and with Saturn in Aquarius at the end of 2020. Jupiter will either
help us create a new forms of collective well-being or make the mess
we're in even messier. That's why it's up to us to make sure our
inner patriarchy is dead and buried this year. (Look for my special
Journey offer to help you understand what you really believe as
Jupiter leaves Sagittarius.)
Milky Way in Sagittarius
The
Sabian symbol for Jupiter at 26* Sagittarius is: A
flag-bearer distinguishes himself in hand -to-hand battle.
A flag-bearer doesn't go into battle to fight; he goes into battle
without a weapon to hold the standard of his king or lord. It is an
honor that is dangerous, since he isn't armed. The image suggests that we have to be ready
to stand up for what we believe in, even if we don't feel equipped to do it.
Venus
in Sagittarius rules this Taurus Full Moon and she squares Neptune
retrograde in Pisces, challenged to find the inspiration she needs to
explore and grow. She gives this Full Moon a sense of adventure but
also of truth and inspiration. Be inspired and have hope.
The
Sabian symbol for Venus at 14* Sagittarius is: The
Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.
What is more inspiring than that. The Sabian symbol for Neptune at
16* Pisces is: In
the quiet of her study, a creative individual experiences a flow of
inspiration.
May the beauty and wonder of creation open your hearts
and minds.
Cathy
It
is Hard to Have Hope ~ Wendall Berry
It
is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,
for
hope must not depend on feeling good
and
there is the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight.
You
also have withdrawn belief in the present reality
of
the future, which surely will surprise us,
and
hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction
any
more than by wishing. But stop dithering.
The
young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them?
Tell
them at least what you say to yourself.
Because
we have not made our lives to fit
our
places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded,
the
streams polluted, the mountains overturned. Hope
then
to belong to your place by your own knowledge
of
what it is that no other place is, and by
your
caring for it as you care for no other place, this
place
that you belong to though it is not yours,
for
it was from the beginning and will be to the end.
Belong
to your place by knowledge of the others who are
your
neighbors in it: the old man, sick and poor,
who
comes like a heron to fish in the creek,
and
the fish in the creek, and the heron who manlike
fishes
for the fish in the creek, and the birds who sing
in
the trees in the silence of the fisherman
and
the heron, and the trees that keep the land
they
stand upon as we too must keep it, or die.
This
knowledge cannot be taken from you by power
or
by wealth. It will stop your ears to the powerful
when
they ask for your faith, and to the wealthy
when
they ask for your land and your work.
Answer
with knowledge of the others who are here
and
how to be here with them. By this knowledge
make
the sense you need to make. By it stand
in
the dignity of good sense, whatever may follow.
Speak
to your fellow humans as your place
has
taught you to speak, as it has spoken to you.
Speak
its dialect as your old compatriots spoke it
before
they had heard a radio. Speak
publicly
what cannot be taught or learned in public.
Listen
privately, silently to the voices that rise up
from
the pages of books and from your own heart.
Be
still and listen to the voices that belong
to
the streambanks and the trees and the open fields.
There
are songs and sayings that belong to this place,
by
which it speaks for itself and no other.
Find
your hope, then, on the ground under your feet.
Your
hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground
underfoot.
Be it lighted by the light that falls
freely
upon it after the darkness of the nights
and
the darkness of our ignorance and madness.
Let
it be lighted also by the light that is within you,
which
is the light of imagination. By it you see
the
likeness of people in other places to yourself
in
your place. It lights invariably the need for care
toward
other people, other creatures, in other places
as
you would ask them for care toward your place and you.
No
place at last is better than the world. The world
is
no better than its places. Its places at last
are
no better than their people while their people
continue
in them. When the people make
dark
the light within them, the world darkens.
~
Wendell Berry ~
(This
Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems)
