We get to experience Taurus energy through the moon twice each year. In spring, this earthy goddess encourages the blossoms which will become fruit and vegetables, but by the time the moon rises full in Taurus each fall, the harvest is in. We have reached the end of a busy cycle and, if we pay close attention to the rhythms within us, we allow ourselves to slow down just a bit.







You might counter with: ‘My life is so full and I have to keep moving. You have no idea how many obligations are pulling at my attention!' Taurus would advise that all that requires your attention will thrive more fully if you allow yourself a few minutes to steady the wild cries to hurry up and create monumental changes for yourself and others.







It’s true that this moon doesn’t surf through the heavens alone and is moving in the company of several rather rowdy energy bodies (the other planets), but for just a couple days, her majesty the moon, empress of your emotional tides, asks that you take some deep breaths before you dive into anything.







Taurus is sometimes prone to settling in so deeply that it can’t get moving again, but whether you’ve been moving into your days like a whirling dervish or have been glued to your couch with a remote in your hand, this moon helps you to see that when you can reach a truly authentic still point within, your movement into the world becomes seamless and you can act with more ease as the multitude of ideas swinging around inside your mind settle. From a quieter center, you become like a lake where the water is so still it can reflect, and seemingly absorb, the sky.







There-there, says this moon. Remember Mary Oliver’s encouragement to “. . . let the soft animal of your body love what it loves . . . ” and engage with the extraordinary abundance which fills your days; notice the essence of things so simple and elegant—and subtle—that you may have passed them by until today . . . the rosehips glowing on the frosted limbs, the outrageous beauty of the pumpkins sitting quietly in the humble bins at market, the way light falls away at dusk. The world is filled with such beauty and this moon asks that we slow down enough to feel it in our bones.







A beautiful moony day to you.







Deborah







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