May 7, 2024: Astrology Blast! #newmoon in Taurus
Separation from what sucks the life out of you
Separation creates the space to redefine your relationship to what makes you suffer so you can look for new opportunities to get that need met. That’s essentially what alchemy is - redirecting energy to serve your needs.
This started for me yesterday when I realized that the reason I don’t want to make YouTube videos is not because I can’t (spoiler alert, I have 6 different channels and only a few videos on each), but because I feel like YouTube violates my sense of Justice. They censored videos by doctors that talked about lifestyle improvements including vitamins and questioned the Covid vaccine, and at the same time, they have promoted videos that present a false narrative about Israel.
It’s not that I can’t, it’s that I don’t want to participate with that platform.
Sucks for me, I guess, since there’s so much money to be made on YouTube, but it’s an opportunity for me to rise my spiritual/sacred values. What d’ya know — that’s a trademark of Taurus and we have 5 planets in Taurus with this new moon.
What virtues are you being asked to stand up for?
A few Astrological nuggets about today:
In the 22nd degree of Aries, Mercury is moving away from Chiron after the conjunction yesterday morning. This will take a week or two to get ‘out of orb’, so seek the learning from any challenges to maturity during this window where ever your have Aries in your chart.
Moon transits Venus today at 10:04:39 AM EST.
Venus is ruled by Taurus, so it’s extra strong. Let yourself let go of what’s no longer important so you can make space for what’s even cooler to come in.
We’re at the end of a lunar cycle almost all day today, with a…
New moon in Taurus at 11:22 PM EST tonight.
New moon in Taurus when the moon passes between the earth and sun at 18°2’ Taurus (shown below).
A new moon brings light and shadow elements to Earth, this of Taurus.
An Astrologer friend of mine writes an Aquarian Journal that tracks the development of consciousness through the astrology from new moon to full moon and back.
Here are a few nuggets from his full article, linked here:
• The energies of Taurus bring life into the processes of nature.
• Experience the joy of seeing tangible results in the creation process through spiritual integration with the creative process.• The rising of consciousness is only possible when Spirit is allowed to fully express itself through nature and our physical bodies.
• In Taurus it’s important that we focus on what we really want.
• In order for the creation process to emerge in a meaningful way, out of all the potentials available we must learn to focus on the excitement and inspiration that rises from our heart center.• Taurus loves to be in the moment… connecting with Spirit, feeling energized by nature, and seeing the love, beauty, and magnificence of everything that has vitality and life.
• Taurus animates our world with life, liberty, and the freedom to exist as a self-sufficient life-form.The shadow of Taurus includes:
• Stubbornness that blocks the flow of nature
• resisting Spirit’s desire to create
• sensuality without consciousness and love
• reliance on outside authority, and
• honoring any traditions that take away freedom and independence from the individual.
New moon support
Mercury’s nodes
The north node is in the “new moon position” and the south node is in the “full moon position.”
What does this mean? I’m not exactly sure, since nodes are relatively unstudied, especially those of the inner planets, but in tracing the common threads, I think this means that we’ve reached a climax of delusional attachment to ancestral/shadow understandings of reality and we’re beginning a new phase of a mature understanding about participating (Venus) in a world we value (Taurus) by doing the work (earth sign) to make it real.
5 planets!
In Taurus, we have the new moon (2 planets), as we’ve already discussed, but we also have Jupiter, Uranus, and Venus.
Venus and Jupiter together work well together by aligning our values and gut feelings with interpersonal roles we can take the responsibility to assume.
Uranus filters those gut feelings with insight in the moment for what roles help feel confident with our new approach.
The new moon is also conjunct Mars’ north node. Mars’ north north serves as a window to an individual’s creative purpose.
It seems to represent the principle of “Loyalty.”
Those with delusions of loyalty will rely on the force of their egos to maintain their plans until they crumble under the weight of their own hubris.
Those with loyalty to the divine will come to find genuine heart-based connections.
That’s what I’ve got for you today.
Mercury’s nodes transit exactly tomorrow at 1:35 PM, so it seems like today is a lot about closing out old misunderstandings of our strength, including clearing out blocks, separating from what sucks the life out of you, looking through the veil of the softened balsamic moon to what creative directions serve your personal sense of loyalty, and loving being in the moment.
Presently,
Joshua
In resonance to your views on YouTube, social media for that matter. Glad to see a fellow navigator of constellations and psyche in this space.