Taurus New Moon 27 April 2025

Feel and respect your emotions – Act from your loving heart.

(don’t worry about the astro-jargon – go for the gist)

Dear Friends,
.       I’m writing this stuff to you who already know it well because I need to hear it – so I’m listening too. These days it feels to me like being on a travellator, walking along normally and realising that the landscape is passing twice as fast as it should be. And yet it’s passing in fits and starts with time in between to wonder what exactly just happened, and how much difference that change is going make. I feel myself changing inside – I guess we all are?

Taurus – the trees know how to live
.       The Sun and Moon are together in Taurus, and maybe this month, we get to feel a bit like trees in the midst of a building site. Mars, who represents the driving force to get things done, is now in Leo again having given us a taste of Leo through November and December last year, but sinking back into Cancer again since early January – perhaps we had family issues to complete, and self-care habits to establish. We needed to get a good focus on what direction we can take that will serve others as well as ourselves, because we can’t go forward alone. Any movement we make affects others, and we are becoming more aware of that (Mars trine Neptune, who has entered Aries). Now the energy is ready to roll us into a global future, but that future must serve our own personal needs as well.

Be honest about all of it
.       Expressing what feels true for ourself can be inspirational, helping others to get it right for themselves too, and we all get to encourage each other, a great healing (Jupiter sextile Chiron in Aries). Unless, of course, the Aries expression comes too fast and, if disconnected from its surroundings, can be inappropriate (Mercury is in Aries and unaspected). Chiron is the truth-teller, and that can be inadvertently wounding. The background intention may be to heal with honesty, but the immediacy may simply hurt as illusions implode. This is a call for us to allow that seemingly negative expressions may contain the gift that frees us from our illusions. We need to take time to understand rather than reacting defensively.
.       Expressing ourselves more gently would be helpful, and also listening to the meaning behind and within what is expressed to us. But Aries and Leo are not known for sensitivity, so boundaries may become an issue. Let’s be aware if we can when our truth encroaches on another’s space; and recognise when what appears to be coming at us is actually a reflection of a feeling we may have rejected in ourselves, like people being angry with us when we are unaware of our own inner anger. What we reject, we project – what is in our atmosphere belongs to us. Astrologically one can say that every energy shown in your birth chart will be expressed – if you don’t express it, someone else will.

Aries individuality dissolved – from competition to community
.       Neptune is in Aries now for a few months as a taster to what will be, dissolving the personal quality of driving ahead. We may find it harder to ‘go it alone’ because of a growing awareness of how everyone in our world is affected by everything we think, feel or do. It’s not just a few of us feeling all this, it’s actually part of the new shift in humanity; and what we will need, to balance our personal desiring, is the Pisces sense of all sharing one life, loving all. Perhaps we experience something of this when Saturn triggers our sense of responsibility for those in need, as he moves through the last degrees of Pisces collecting Pisces wisdom to take into Aries.

The purpose shown by this month’s charts
.       The Full Moon chart shows a pattern I want to describe: Sun with Uranus in Taurus, holding the intention to make the necessary breaks; the Sun/Uranus position is at the midpoint of Chiron sextile Jupiter, who are pointing the Finger of God (a double quincunx) at the opposing full Moon in Scorpio. This pattern speaks of the need to own our deepest emotions as part of being human, so that we get to see it’s not the emotions that destroy life but what actions we justify with them. Our conditioning over so long has confused emotions with behaviour, and tried to prevent damage by rejecting the powerful survival instincts. But the new human knows the difference and, having compassion for the emotional suffering of pain and hurt, accepts, and loves, and heals.

.       In this chart, the full Moon trines the North Node, humanity’s growthful direction, where Saturn in Pisces joins Neptune in Aries. What is being revealed this month is the futility of pretending, of lying, of thinking competition for resources can solve anything. Let us take this into our own lives, be prepared to see where we have been personally hoodwinking ourselves. And let our dreaming be of community in love, of working with the power of angels and devas, of beauty in all things – because these are all there in potential, to be held in the heart as they gradually unfold into manifestation.

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Contemplation for this New Moon in Taurus

Be where you are, dear soul – your body is.
Encourage your lungs to breathe in life.
Really feel what you are feeling now –
say what you think if your heart says yes.
And everything else let go, because
it is from a world of conjecture and illusion,
judgement and separation.

Your heart is where love grows –
when it says yes, go that way
and the sun will shine through the mist,
into your world through you, dear soul.

With love,
Margaret