New Moon in Taurus arrived at 12:19a PDT on Saturday, April 21, 2012, officially ushering in support for and acceleration of the Sun in Taurus energy that began on April 19th.
Taurus is about our “survival needs” – food, shelter, and sex, which translate into our material, physical and financial resources at a fundamental level. Taurus represents what has us each feel comfortable, safe, and secure in our lives.
However, along with Sun (and for now, the New Moon) in Taurus:
- Mars is direct in Virgo, letting us know our choices and actions of all kinds really do have effects on our day-to-day lives.
- Mercury is direct in Aries, letting us know that what we really think about our lives is going to be reflected in those actions.
- Venus is in Gemini, making sure that we give positive and loving thought and consideration to all of our options and all possible scenarios in front of us.
- Uranus in Aries brings unexpected events that help us see who we are choosing to be for ourselves and others in our lives.
- And Neptune and Chiron are both in Pisces right now, helping us not only be aware of our visionary dreams and ideals, but also where we may be deluding ourselves with fantasies and escapist behaviors. These influences may also be bringing us into awareness of the wounds or insecurities we are trying to hide or protect with our idealism, romanticism, and escapist behaviors.
It’s a combination of energies that is going to bring about many awakenings, many ending, and many new beginnings. It’s likely to be a time of many “blessings in disguise”.
I’m choosing to use that term because many of us are going to be experiencing changes on an individual level that may not be easy or pleasant for us in the next few days. In fact, in some circumstances, they may be downright emotionally or spiritually painful. There are likely to be situations, circumstances, relationships, resources – things that we have always counted on or grown accustomed to – that may no longer feel like a “good fit” for us, or we may be in a time of serious assessment of them to see if we want to commit to them for the long haul. We will also have a chance to clearly see what we are stubbornly holding onto in our lives, and to ask ourselves whether or not it is wise and/or genuinely loving for us to continue to hold on so tightly.
Many of us may find that we’ve known the answers all along, but we’ve resisted them. For example, I’ve known I’ve needed to sever ties with a particular family member for a very long time, but I’ve resisted cutting the cord because “it’s family” and I was trying to give the person the benefit of the doubt. I’ve allowed them to continue to be a detrimental presence in my life until very recently when I made the choice to start doing whatever it takes to put permanent distance between us. I’ve begun taking the steps to free myself of the situation with the unexpected understanding of my other family members, and I though I feel sad about the choice, I also feel relieved and free in making it, knowing it’s been a long time coming. In fact, I wonder why I didn’t make the choice sooner now understanding what it could open me up to experience in my life.
That said, questions to ask yourself in the time of this New Moon are:
- What are you holding onto in your life? Is it real? Is it good? Is it really a good thing? Or are you trying to convince yourself that it’s good because you don’t want to let go of your ideal or fantasy about it – because you don’t want to give up on the dream…or maybe it’s not a dream, but the resources it provides for you?
- Is there something in your life that you’ve known in your heart and soul is ‘over’, but you haven’t let it end because you don’t know or you’re afraid of who you may be without it as part of your everyday life (whether it’s a circumstance, a relationship, or a way of behaving in your life)
- What beliefs or behaviors did you take on earlier in your life to help you survive or “survive”? Are those survival behaviors and beliefs still serving you well now?
- What life experience are you hiding from or afraid of? Or are you simply afraid of the unknown of the future? Is that fear keeping you from moving forward in the rest of you life?
You may find that you may take unexpected actions or make unexpected choices in regard to certain areas of your life, especially in the areas that affect your “‘survival” resources. In some cases, others in your life will make those unexpected choices or take those unexpected actions which may affect your foundational resources and possibly the course of your life. Understand that the choices and actions occurring right now are allowing for things to come to an end for new things to come and begin in their place – things that are more in alignment with the life you want for yourself, or rather, the life you believe you can have and manifest.
Strangely, in this New Moon cycle, the new beginnings that usually come and/or are best started under New Moon energy are actually new experiences of life after certain long-standing situations that affect the foundation of your life come to an end. These endings are happening so you can replace those outdated and outworn elements with new ones which will help solidify and strengthen the foundation of and the resources for your life.
Remember that these unexpected endings and beginnings…they may all be blessings in disguise.
Thanks for reading and sharing. Until next time…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
