The 2020 Taurus New Moon reaches its maximum phase at 7:26p PDT on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020 (3.40°). Taurus represents our fundamental lifestyle essentials (a.k.a. – our survival needs), which for many of us at this time are either perceived to be or may actually be in jeopardy, whether due to resources or due to actual threat of physical illness or death.
This 2020 Taurus New Moon is occurring on numerological a 3 Universal day for the Americas and all points west of them – an energy of growth, expansion, and learning. This indicates that the South America, North America, and other western nations are still growing in their awareness and understanding of what is happening right now. Yet everywhere else in the world is experiencing this New Moon on a 4 Universal Day – an energy of stability, security, safety, and structure – the rest of the world understands that what is happening now is the absence of all of those 4 energy qualities, allowing for major livelihood and values changes to occur. In an 8 Universal Month of power and influence, we are learning about what True power actually is; and that manipulation and control are not power, but rather, the pretense of it. Real power is in found it the ability to effect change.
Taurus is a fixed earth energy sign. This energy combination makes it the most rigid of all of the signs, often inflexible, often stubborn, and very resistant to change…. and of course it would be! It makes sense when you remember it represents and oversees everything that gives you life and keeps you alive. None of us want the foundational elements and structure of our livelihoods to change.
Yet life can change at any moment. Our lives experience changes every day, often by our own choosing! But in the face of a virus pandemic, all of our livelihoods are more physically at risk than usual. And I don’t mean to say that to instigate fear – I’m simply stating fact.
The reason change is so unnerving for most of us is because it reminds us that not all change is within our control. How we choose to handle changes and adapt to them is within our control, but whether or not the change occurs isn’t always up to us. This is a very frightening prospect for more of us than many of us would care to admit.
But these massive foundational changes are serving a purpose.
The 2020 Taurus Sun + Moon conjunction has another component joining its party which affirms for us that this New Moon phase is going to be about the changes that are occurring, changes which are being called for, the resistance to those changes, and what that resistance sets in motion.
Uranus – the ruling planet of Aquarius – represents evolution, innovation, progress, and broadcasting or relaying information to the masses. It also represents groups, communities, society, and possibly humanity as a whole… primarily from an intellectual and communicative perspective. This includes corporations, media channels and networks, and any other social systems which may influence others in a collective manner.
With Uranus in Taurus, we already know that Taurus is a fixed earth energy. Well, with Uranus being all about information, innovation, and change; in Taurus, it seeks to evolve our lifestyle foundations – it seeks to bring evolution and elevation to them. Yet as we previously discussed, many people don’t want to let go of the familiarity of their lives. They don’t want to give up the way they live their lives… even if that way isn’t comfortable, easy, or even life-affirming. It’s what they know, and they’re afraid if not terrified of change.
Yet this may be a case of “why did I wait so long to make this change?” once things actually get moving.
But that’s the thing – things weren’t moving. That’s why Nature/the Universe stepped in.
We’ve been collectively out of balance for a very long time. There have been plenty of signs that our current collective course was unsustainable, and that we needed to change our ways. Yet too many resisted change, mocking and alienating the few calling for it. As a whole, we were refusing to acknowledge and make the necessary changes, but if we weren’t going to see the imbalances of our lives, the Universe was going to force us to see them.
Welcome, Covid-19, otherwise known as the Coronoavirus.
Through this virus, Mother Nature has put us in “time out”. We weren’t remembering our place in the world, so Nature had to remind us of who we are and where we are in the big picture of things. This isn’t necessarily a punishment for not making these changes on our own accord; rather, it’s a force of hand – the Universe saying, “You wouldn’t do it, so I did.”
And as in real life, there’s no surprise that there are some of her “children” continue to refuse to sit in time out calmly or quietly. Instead of acknowledging the danger of the virus and the severity of the situation-at-hand, they think it’s easy to just throw a tantrum, force their way, then go about life the way they always have.
But they will quickly learn – the hard way – that things will never be the same again.
This Taurus Sun + Moon + Uranus stellium (3.40-6.40°) which is in effect during the maximum phase moment of this 2020 Taurus New Moon phase marks the confirmation of truly unexpected changes in what is usually stable and secure; and it marks the beginning of a time of sweeping lifestyle changes for the mass of humanity. This is not going to be an easy time, and it’s not going to get any easier. In fact, it will get harder before it gets easier because at the beginning, change is always harder at first.
You’re purposely being forced to let go of the old ways you would go about doing things. You’re purposely being asked to let go of the expectations you had that certain resources would always be available to you. You’re purposely being asked to let go of the processes you used to go through in order to obtain certain resources. You are purposely being asked to change.
Not sacrifice. Release. Let go. They will no longer serve you in in the events that are coming.
And if you resist… well, you can try to resist.
But change is the only constant, and you’ll understand soon enough.
But this won’t be a loss for everyone. Those who will thrive in these challenging times are those who are willing to adapt to the changes and those who are willing to adopt an attitude of change. This whole thing is not about change being forced upon you and “destroying” your life – this is about what these changes are revealing about how your life really wasn’t working; and this is about how willing you are to embrace the spirit of change and what it enables you to create for yourself as your “new normal”. Of course, creating something for yourself may not be easy or for many, seem even remotely possible right now, especially when the old ways of the world are still telling you that you have no power for you to claim creative power in one’s life.
And for a while, you may not have much worldly power.
Yet what you do have is resilience, which comes from the power you have within yourself; and what you can adopt in this time of change is an acknowledgement and acceptance of change. Things are changing. Things will continue to change. And though the old ways may seem to be holding fast, there will be a very unexpected and unpredicted turning point at which will the gates for extremely significant and substantial changes will open wide and a path for forward progress through massive foundational change will begin to clarify.
So, don’t make the mistake of thinking or believing things are going to go back to what they once were or will continue on as they have. They won’t. Ever. We aren’t going back there, especially as things continue to change as quickly as they are.
We have already crossed, and are well past, the point of no return.
Of course, this means we’ll have to endure the dramatic and destructive behaviors of those who refuse to accept these inevitable changes. The irony is that their behaviors intended to stop evolutionary change are actually going to contribute to an acceleration of that change. This refusal/resistance energy is going to be the set-up for a very powerful Scorpio Full Moon phase reaching its maximum on 7th May, a couple of weeks from now.
Yet the lesson for all of us in the midst of this mess is that the essence of life cannot be found in the financial and material world we’ve lived in up to now. It is found in how we make the best of what we have in the physical and material world, how we create it, how we encourage it to grow, and how we use it to support one another to not only survive, but to thrive as a collective and symbiotic whole.
This is about us building a foundation for livelihood that enables ALL beings to feel individually and collectively supported, solid, safe, and secure.
But first, those who cannot release the past must either let go or be let go.
That’s what this 2020 Taurus New Moon begins – the purge of resistance.
Of course, the actual resistance is made up of those who are resisting change.
What we’ve come to think of as “the resistance” are actually at the lead of the changes that have begun and are coming. They aren’t “the resistance” as much as they are “the deliverance” – the bringers of change. They may have a great intellectual (and possibly physical) fight ahead of them, but the changes they are calling for are inevitable. It’s just a matter of how long it takes others to wake up to their vision and to the necessity of a mass movement to bring the changes into manifestation.
To that point, let’s look at the other important astrological transits during this 2020 Taurus New Moon phase for a deeper understanding of what is happening and/or being set into motion now.
Aries Chiron conjunct Black Moon Lilith (7-9°) – People’s actions are revealing their degrees of woundedness and their degrees of healing. Either or both are driving one’s actions.
- Opposite Libra Juno Retrograde (°) – The ego-driven actions are counterbalanced by the commitment to find balance and peace within oneself and in one’s relationships with others. Who is bringing peace and calm to your life, and who is bringing the chaos more to the fore?
Capricorn Pluto conjunct Jupiter (24-26°) – The call for transformation grows, and more people are becoming open to collapse or destruction as the means by which that transformation occurs. The death of the old in order for the birth of the new to come forward is proving necessary. An implosion of the old that allows that emergence of something new begins, but not without a great deal of chaos during the transition.
Capricorn Jupiter conjunct Pallas Athena (26-29°) – The patterns of those being phased out are now growing beyond the shadows they’ve hidden in, revealing the truth of what those of the old guard actually stand for. These patterns can no longer be hidden – they are too obvious and have revealed their predictability; and now, the only way to break them is to break the structure which enables them to continue. It’s time to break the pattern and end the cycle.
Capricorn Pallas Athena conjunct Aquarius Saturn (29-1°) – Of course, whenever you try to make a significant change to something that has been in place for a very long time, there is resistance. Yet there are two sides to this resistance emerging – one side is the resistance to the past collapsing; the other is resistance to the past continuing. Those who have been in the positions of power may seem to have an advantage, but is those who are determined to change the status quo can get themselves focused, organized, and disciplined, there can be a major and surprisingly quick shift in the structure of power. Those who are resisting the continuation of the past by bringing the future may experience what seem to be setbacks when Saturn goes back into Capricorn by retrograde on 1st July. But what is happening right now is that you’re being shown what needs to be changed. When Saturn is back in Capricorn, that time will be the 5.5 months you’ll need to organize and gather strength for the fight of your life once Saturn returns to Aquarius on 17th December.
Aquarius Mars trine Gemini Venus (15-16°) – Actions communicate far more to others than your words right now, and that’s what others – especially your partners in any and all kinds of relationships – will be focused on during this 2020 Taurus New Moon period. Are you walking your talk, or are you only talking? When you’re talking, make sure your actions align with your words. And if you’re listening, you may actually want to watch – to look to see what others’ actions actually reveal.
Gemini Venus conjunct Vesta (12-15°) – Intense dedication to the exchange of information. Communication is an essential element of partnerships of all kinds, and it becomes of paramount importance during this 2020 Taurus New Moon as an indication and possibly even a measure of one’s dedication to the connection between individuals in any type of partnership. This isn’t a time for silence, nor is a time to overthink one’s communications. The words exchanged now set the tone for whatever is to come, yet don’t let that scare you- let it empower you. Better to say what you want to say than to remain silent and wonder “what if…”.
I’m going to be blunt.
This whole situation we’re experiencing – it’s going to get collectively much worse before it gets better. This isn’t going to end as quickly as we may want it to. This isn’t going to be as easy as we want it to be.
Yet when it starts to get better (and it eventually will), it will be a glorious emergence well worth every minute of the journey it took to get to that point.
This 2020 Taurus New Moon marks the beginning of the end of what has created this pain and suffering. The virus in itself is not the cause of the pain. In fact, if anything, the virus has revealed what has been visible in our societies for a long while now, but we’ve chosen to ignore it.
Now we are dealing with dire circumstance and horrific situations we can no longer ignore; and even though it’s taking a lot of pain, suffering, and struggle to face them, we wouldn’t have seen the changes that need to be made in our societies and in our humanity without them.
This “curse” of Covid-19 is proving to have had a purpose, and dare I say, an unexpected blessing. But now that the purpose of its presence has been revealed, it’s time to clear away the causes of the “curse” and to begin healing the wounds they have left upon us.
It’s time to destroy the old foundation, and establish a new one which aligns with Nature – our True human nature of unity amongst ourselves, and our natural Oneness with our planet and our Universe.
We are One, and it’s time for us to remember that.
Thank you, Mother Nature, for giving us the time to remember that.
Thank you for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
