A new Taurus Moon softens the edges of our intensified lives. This is energy which has no interest in mind play but which reminds us to nourish ourselves on the sound of rain falling, to cherish the feel of cool dirt between our fingers as we settle seedlings into the earth. Taurus wants to harvest the rhubarb, caress the dough and sit late in the afternoon at the kitchen table feeling the sun on its skin while the baking pie fills the room with smells so exotic and primal we know better than to try to capture the sensation with thought.

Taurus grounds you in the sensual world. It helps you settle. It encourages anything which nourishes inner stillness. Building bluebird houses in your shop with old B.B.King songs filling the garage; wandering into lilac stands and filling yourself up on their fragrance; feeling dumbstruck by the amazing scarlet gracing the wing of a blackbird or losing yourself completely in the echoing calls of the meadowlark.

Taurus helps you return to a place in yourself where you can buffer the crazy-making chatter all around. And, truly, we all need some buffering these days and in the coming weeks. Our old friend, Mercury, turns retrograde on Monday and we’ve been feeling it monkeying around with the details of our lives for weeks now. This weekend’s Taurus moon offers an antidote to the frustrations so often felt as a retrograde Mercury cycle brings us upside down communications and lost marbles, some of them seemingly bouncing around inside of our heads.

We spend more than enough time seeking answers to the cosmic riddles worrying our minds. But this Taurus energy asks for nothing but quiet within. It opens wide the lens upon the phenomenally beautiful in each moment so we might take root in all that is essential and present in this very nano-second.

Later in the week, I will write more about Mercury going backward but tonight I want to bow deeply to the Taurus new moon and its wise counsel to stay close to the ground, remain faithful to what it essential, let the wisdom of your sensual body lead you. There is so much other energy circulating which has you feeling anxious . . . let this new moon energy carry you tenderly into all the world offers you outside the context of your mind.

Though you’ve probably heard this line over and over again from Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese, it bears repeating: You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves . . . .

Our physical world is sacred and we have chosen to be present here, experiencing Light through form. Literally or metaphorically, take yourself or another into your arms tonight and leave words alone. Everything is there in the still point.

If you’d like to explore how the energetics of these wild days are affecting you personally, please drop a note and we can find a time to explore your unique energy patterning through your birth chart, transits, relationships or cartography maps.

* Taurus New Moon @ 26 degrees

10:12 PM MDT

Sunday, May 17th

* Mercury Retrograde @ 13 degrees Gemini

6:50 PM MDT

Monday, May 18th

About the Author:



Deborah O’conner



Be humble, for you are made of earth.

Be noble, for you are made of stars.