The
Cosmic Story: Taurus New Moon 2020
“
Creating the Future from Aries Primal Fire”
EarthRise ~ The Woman Clothed with the Sun
Happy Earth Day! Mother Earth is much happier now that
we've just stopped. The air pollution is down and wildlife is taking
advantage of our human isolation. On this 50th
Anniversary of Earth Day (isn't it sad that we even need to have
Earth Day rather than it being Earth Day everyday), let's all
remember that the Earth is the only home we have. Is economic wealth
worth losing that home?
I love that Earth Day takes place during Taurus, the
first, fixed earth sign of the zodiac. And this year we are blessed.
Wednesday's Taurus New Moon will be very different from other Taurus
New Moons because it will be joined by Uranus, the planet of
Awakening and Innovation. Usually the energy of the Taurus New Moon
is sensual, calm and practical. But not this time. Watch for a
surprise.
With Uranus' lightning bolt energizing this New Moon
seed, we'll be stepping into the future in some way. Jupiter,
Saturn and Neptune will also be challenging this New Moon to open us
up to new ideas and visions, even if we all just want to find some
peace and quiet in the beauty of Spring. We're challenged to let go
of the old story and plant the seed of the new story.
Of course, the background to all this innovation is the
pandemic the world is dealing with. And that goes back
astrologically to the big Saturn, Jupiter and Pluto conjunction in
Capricorn that we've been dealing with since January 12, 2020.
Astrology is so amazing because it gives us a cosmic
perspective on what may happen in our world. Knowing that something
big was going to happen this year, while not knowing exactly what
form it would take, helped us prepare ourselves for the shock, and is
helping us see the deeper meaning in what we're experiencing.
This potent conjunction symbolically informed us that
the very structures of our society – our governments, our finances,
our corporations, our institutions – were going to crumble under
some form of stress. That those institutions which were no longer
viable were not going to be able to handle the situation. And so it
has proven to be.
I keep thinking of a 60s musical – Stop
the World, I Want to Get Off. That is what's
happening right now. Oil prices have hit rock bottom. The
institutions we've come to depend on are overwhelmed. Our world has
stopped working. And that might be the best thing we could hope for.
Because we are heading into an unknown future which needs us to
reinvent almost all aspects of our common life.
Those corporations which we've fed by our consumerism
have outsourced the ability to take care of our basic needs. Our
food, our medicines, our resources are not easily available when they
have to come from the other side of a shutdown world. We are
discovering that we need a new system. And one that helps 'the
people' and not corporate interests, like world leaders did in the
2009 financial crisis.
And whether we want to admit it or not, our 'death'
mentality – our constant wars, our environmental degradation,
the violence in our media, our wealth inequality which gives rise to
our homeless populations, our starving people, our refugees –
is coming back to haunt us. This pandemic has sent us to our rooms
to make us face death.
The old patriarchal rules that shaped our behavior since
childhood are also dissolving within each of us. We're being left
alone to face our Shadows and re-discover our Inner Light. If we can
work through those Shadows – are we good enough, pretty enough,
wealthy enough, clever enough, determined enough – we can uncover
the original light that came into the world at our birth. We can go
back to that original blessing and build the future world on that.
That is the promise of this unique Taurus New Moon
(Uranus hasn't been in Taurus since 1935-1942, during the New Deal).
Perhaps this will be the opportunity we need to get the Green New
Deal up and running. How can any of us want to go back to 'normal'
after we've seen and experienced clear skies, clear water, quiet
nature? As one young girl told her mom, 'We can't go back to normal.
That would mean we haven't learned our lesson from this.” Out
of the mouths of babes...
The Taurus New Moon occurs on Wednesday, April 22, 2020
– Earth Day – at 7:26pm PDT/ 10:26pm EDT and on Thursday, April
23, 2020 at 3:26am GMT.
Taurus New Moon April 22, 2020
The Sabian symbol for
the Sun and Moon at 4* Taurus is: The pot of gold at the
end of the rainbow.
Just the message we need to help us envision the future rather than
retreat to the past. Rainbows have always been symbolic of a bridge
between Heaven and Earth, a promise of peace after the storm. When
we see things from a higher, larger perspective, anything becomes
possible. With this symbolic pot of gold, we can build a better
future. Isn't that what we all long for? To
create a better future for ourselves and the world?
Amanda Curtis -- Long Island
This year is the time to start. We each have the power
within us to leave the old 'death' society we've been born into and
together create a new, better version of the world. One where we
work with and honor Mother Nature. Where no one is left behind.
Where individuals, not corporations, decide what is best for life.
Where creativity and kindness, community and partnership are the
foundation stones of a new society that will stretch 2000 years into
the future.
We are those foundation stones.
The
Sabian symbol for Uranus at 7* Taurus is: The
woman of Sumaria at the ancestral well. This
symbol comes from a beautiful story about the Christ. Early in his
ministry, Jesus comes upon a woman at a well from a tribe despised by
the Jews. She is also unmarried, probably considered a prostitute
and therefore an outcast in some ways. She would certainly be
considered 'unworthy' by the leaders of both her tribe and the Jews.
And yet because of her kindness in offering water to Jesus when he
was thirsty, he reveals to her, for the first time to anyone, that he
is the Messiah. Jesus came to replace an old tribal, patriarchal
order with a new order based on Love.
This
Uranus calls to the Exiles
and to those people and values our collective society has rejected
and reviled. And it is especially the rejected and reviled feminine
spirit within each of us that can receive this new spiritual,
evolutionary and society-transforming vision of the future. The
creative future descends first to that which has become chaos. And
old order is never open to a new Revelation until it has accepted
disorder in the name of that Power which subsumes all forms of order,
i.e. Love.
(An
Astrological Mandala:
Dane Rudhyar.)
Interesting that the Greek myth of the creation says
that 'first there is chaos and then arose broad-bossomed Earth'. And
when Uranus became all too much for our Momma Earth, she got Saturn
to cut off his phallus, which birthed Aprhodite – Love and Wisdom
of the Earth. The archetypal energy that rules this New Moon and
Uranus.
Taurus is a fixed earth sign, the builder and container
of the primal fire of Aries. Taurus asks: How does that fire want to
manifest? We astrologers say that our soul's creative impulse starts
in the house that Aries occupies in our natal chart. You might want
to think about that. Where is that fire in you, and how does it want
to manifest?
Taurus embodies our values and self-worth, as well as
the talents we have. They are the building blocks of what we
manifest. Taurus values love and sensuality, peace and security,
simplicity and even frugality when balanced. Most Taurus' are humble
and modest and kind and compassionate. The interpretation of a
materialistic Taurus who overdoes things is the most negative reading
of Taurus, seeing greed and possessiveness as its hallmark as
exemplified by the story of Midas and his Golden Touch.
But it is Taurus who sees the promise of the Garden of
Eden – the simple, blissful life when we were connected to Mother
Nature and all beings were at peace. The vision of spirit come to
Earth. Where we appreciate beauty and serenity, comfort and
connection. Taurus is ruled by Venus/Aphrodite after all. Love is
always at the Center for Taurus. That's the true nature of Taurus.
That's the image we can hold in our hearts as we imagine our Future
this month.
Venus
is the archetypal power that energizes Taurus. Venus is now in
Gemini, the sign of the mind and consciousness and is about to go
retrograde in Gemini on May 12th
– 13th
at
22* Gemini back to 6* Gemini on June 24th
– 25th.
Gemini is the sign of curiosity and the search for knowledge. So
Venus is going back to find some bit of knowledge that she left
behind.
The
Sabian symbol for Venus at 22* Gemini is: Dancing
couples at a harvest festival.
This
image of couples dancing in a new yet old rhythm speaks to the need
for us to unite our masculine and feminine energies as well as
partnering up with men and women who can help us keep up the rhythm.
A harvest festival means that we have grown something that can
sustain us through the coming cycle. The dance encourages the need
to embody our emotions and then use our mind to 'make it so'.
Venus
is an Evening Star now but will be moving between the Earth and the
Sun when she retrogrades. Venus will disappear from the evening sky
on May 28th
and become a Morning Star on June 11th.
The
Sabian symbol for Venus turning direct at 6* Gemini is: Night
workmen drill amidst noise and confusion.
This is what we are facing. We need to look it in the eye and name
it for what it is. The noise and confusion of our modern life isn't
all it's cracked up to be, is it? We need to think about what we
really want and need, what we really love. That knowing will decide
how to act to change the world.
So with the Taurus New Moon/ Uranus and Venus in Gemini,
we are invited to imagine what the most beautiful, most ingenious,
most interesting future for ourselves and the world might be. This
is our playtime this year – things won't be really changing until
next year. There will be lots of revising and reconsideration this
year, so don't get stuck on one option or one point of view. This is
the year to explore possibilities.
Venus and Mars are both in air signs, so they are open
to conversing about these new possibilities. The issue is that the
old ways are dying and these are the masculine yang aspects of our
society. We have to let the the yang die so the yin, feminine energy
can re-birth the world for us, as the divine Feminine always does.
Mars is the dying and rising God, just as Venus is the Eternal Mother
and Goddess of Life. So Venus and Mars are trying to work it all
out. Mars in Aquarius helps us find our ideals and open to cosmic
vision about what the masculine yang energy needs to do and become.
Venus and Mars
The other player in this situation is Mercury, which
went regrade in Pisces for almost two months before heading into
Aries on April 10th. Perhaps you've noticed that people
have been expressing their opinions rather loudly (the strikes and
also online) since then. Mercury, the messenger god and ruler of
Gemini – and Venus and therefore an influence on the Taurus New
Moon – loves a good fight when in Aries, either physically or
verbally. Mercury in Aries is a brilliant planner, and is at its
most positive when we use mental energy to start making plans for the
future now. Don't waste time arguing with people – everybody
thinks they're right. That's Mercury in Aries for you.
As astrologer Anne Ortelee so brilliantly reminds us,
Mercury is giving us the message to pay attention to what's going on
now as it comes up to its square to Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn.
Because it will show us what we'll be dealing with in the second half
of the year.
We're in for a rocky ride come this summer when Mars
travels through Aries and retrogrades there, remaining in Aries for 6
months instead of 6 weeks. From the last days of June until January
2021, Mars will challenge us and the world as it keeps squaring
Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn at the same time that it joins Eris,
the Goddess of Discord in Aries. The second half of the year will be
our test. Will we descend into fighting or will we take a stand for
a new world, a better world?
It's also time to gather seeds and plant gardens, a
great Taurus activity, because our food chain has been disrupted and
there probably will be food shortages this summer. Just saying...
Be cunning now and watch what's going on in the news, not in fear but
to gather information (Venus in Gemini). We need to know what's
going on so we're prepared for what's coming next.
Ask yourself, what is the creative solution that will
help me grow? Remember, simplify and prepare for the future.
May you walk in the Light with gratitude and delight.
Cathy
“Finisterre” by David Whyte
The road in the end taking the path the
sun had taken,
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way
to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
no way to make sense of a world that wouldn’t let you pass
except to call an end to the way you had come,
to take out each frayed letter you had brought
and light their illumined corners; and to read
them as they drifted on the western light;
to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that;
to promise what you needed to promise all along,
and to abandon the shoes that had brought you here
right at the water’s edge, not because you had given up
but because now, you would find a different way to tread,
and because, through it all, part of you would still walk on,
no matter how, over the waves.
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way
to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
no way to make sense of a world that wouldn’t let you pass
except to call an end to the way you had come,
to take out each frayed letter you had brought
and light their illumined corners; and to read
them as they drifted on the western light;
to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that;
to promise what you needed to promise all along,
and to abandon the shoes that had brought you here
right at the water’s edge, not because you had given up
but because now, you would find a different way to tread,
and because, through it all, part of you would still walk on,
no matter how, over the waves.
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