Taurus - accepting this physical life we have

The run-up to this New Moon has been about mental and emotional states being manifested in material situations: if you are angry about a situation, you probably won’t have a peaceful time dealing with it. Although astrology cannot solve our problems, it can give us a better understanding of what’s going on, and this can help us accept situations as they develop. We need to deal with our material situations on the material level: if you want a tidy office, you need to deal with the papers or throw them away - and the same goes for clothes, I’ve noticed!

What we often forget is that materiality is governed by energy, and is therefore managed on the energetic level. We solve our problems better by creating a relevant attitude, than by relying on thinking up a solution: that is to say, peaceful dealings are more likely to follow a peaceful approach. This is especially true now, during this time of uncertainty about the future, and particularly this month with four of the five ‘personal planets’ in Taurus in the New Moon chart.

People often say, ‘how can I accept something that feels wrong, unfair, not what I want?’ I think we tend to confuse ‘accept’ with ‘approve’. Accepting what is there, what is happening, doesn’t mean we like it, it means that we receive it into our consciousness as it is. Only then can we do something about it. Taurus is about the earth, the food we eat, our bodies and their state of health - as long as we wish to be different, we tend to maintain the energy that keeps us as we are. Once we realise and accept what we have, the ways to develop and change become clear. So start with accepting/receiving the facts in your life, and see what rises to be done.

Have the experience - and learn from the results

At this New Moon, the Sun/Moon are on the South Node in Taurus pointing out that we are largely a product of our past, and we may well find ourselves clinging onto our habits as though that’s who we are. The North Node in Scorpio is calling us to go deeper into our inner experience of ourselves to find a larger more inclusive reality connecting us with the roots of all humanity, not just our inherited family.

From the last Full Moon on the Scorpio/Taurus axis, the procession of planets through Taurus opposed Saturn in Scorpio, which may have felt like pressure to commit to, and get on with, something or someone, and we would have found lots of reasons why we couldn’t (Taurus). On the other hand, as long as we did what needed to be done without insisting on complete control, many things could have become clear, many difficulties presenting workable solutions.

Since the beginning of May, those same planets have been connecting with Pluto and Chiron - and we are beginning to realise the changes may have to happen inside us before they happen in our world. We are being prepared to completely change in order to keep abreast of what is most important to us. We are having to reach beyond our habitual patterns of behaviour, so that we can connect with what is really going on and the people that are really there. When we allow habitual patterns of relating, we keep imagining people to be like those we once knew.

Start by assuming that things are not as bad as you think, then discover what is true, and find your security in that. Old emotional wounds may have been exposed, to be cleaned out by being shared. Own up to how you are feeling, and allow healing through gentle light communication and kindly touch. And this New Moon chart suggests that, from 10 May, that’s the kind of communication that will be encouraged (Venus joins Jupiter in Gemini).

Stirring good energy

Each person needs to discover the attitude that works for them. In terms of ordering your space, it could be: looking lovingly at your things, and placing them carefully where you would like them to go; or deciding that you deserve really nice surroundings to live in, and clearing the space to honour yourself; or preparing to invite people in, and ‘doing yourself proud’ so they experience you at your best. It is difficult to deal with any situation when you hate it as it is. When you tell yourself you would rather be doing something else, it’s difficult to raise the energy to do the best with what you have.

Ceremonies are arrangements of movement, like a dance, to demonstrate a perfection of meaning on the physical plane, . Many of the things we do are like little ceremonies: the way a table is laid for guests at dinner, preparing to do whatever it is you enjoy, making a cup of tea before phoning a friend. There’s something pleasing in careful preparation that carries over into the event, beginning an energetic movement that unfolds on its own. The care and caring give an underlying sense of security - respect and love are catching.

. . . last thought

Whatever else - going it alone this month will not feel good (Uranus square Pluto). Have your own opinions (as long as they keep moving along) and decide what you would prefer to do - but, at this time, it’s being in community with friends, family and neighbours that will be most rewarding. Cutting off from what you don’t want will feel very lonely and, in the end, you won’t even get what you want. Freedom and independence are being exposed for the un-grounded ideals they may be; because in fact we are all inter-connected, inter-dependent, and this is not a weakness. All physical manifestations of life share this plane of existence: to separate out from that is to imagine your body is unaffected by your thoughts and emotions, when clearly it is. Let’s just accept our humanity, this physical expression we’ve chosen, and draw sustenance through our rootedness in the Love that is everything.