Here we all stand, firmly at the precipice of endings and beginnings, the air tight with potential. Reflecting on it all, we can certainly guarantee there are a few technical and perhaps inconvenient truths arising during this time, a few vital lessons for us to learn.
Why?
Because this is New Moon Solar Eclipse, otherwise known as a supercharged New Moon. Eclipses always represent resets and reboots to whatever archetype they represent. Think of restarting your computer to fix a glitch. That is the nature of eclipse season. Additionally, eclipses always dance with the nodes of the Moon, ushering in the fate and destiny patterns that mark yearlong themes. During eclipse cycles, decisions have more weight. Situations occur that demand our attention. We cannot unsee what we are seeing, and stuff will show up regardless of any spin or denial. In other words, the reboot is happening with or without our permission.
It must be noted this is a North Node eclipse, where the emphasis is on the remedy, the guiding light forward, the most optimum choice points of potential. In this case, that medicine is Taurus. It also must be noted Mercury begins the shadow phase of its retrograde cycle a few days (4/26) before this New Moon, also in the sign of Taurus. So, we are being asked to LIVE some Taurus corrections.
What does that mean?
Taurus is the sign most associated with a sense of safety, security, peace and symbolizes how we find those things in our world. It reminds us there are times we need to heal from complexity, find our soul in simplicity, and refocus our gaze on the realness of stability. Thus, Taurus is the “earthiest” of all signs. Our survival needs, which must be met to feel some security, require the tools to survive. Resources like food, water, shelter, and air come to mind, as well as inner resources like self-worth and esteem.
Taurus lessons, though, are always about the RIGHT use of resources measured via grounded ethics. Nature is an excellent example of this type of balance as it exemplifies the symbiotic balance between use and renewal, giving and receiving, taking, and contributing. However, when Taurus gets shadowy and fearful, it gets selfish, disrupting this balance. Greed can emerge where enough is never actually enough, our security always tenuous and external, and our self-worth becomes grounded in outside validation and external parameters of success. Taurus flavor course corrections often require we see where disequilibrium has replaced harmony and thus can seek repair.
The Sun and Moon are joined by Uranus, making this “correction” feel more like sharp slaps of awakening. There is no sleeping through this class.
What are we meant to awaken to? Where is the required reset? Again, look to the house and aspect pattern of this New Moon but in general resources- money, financial systems, food, supply chains, energy, climate issues, conflict, and anything related to our sense of security and survival. Pluto stations retrograde at the last degrees of Capricorn the day before this Moon, pointing out where we need to get it right by revealing where we got it wrong. Again, consequences are not meant to punish us but invite us to do it better. To be clear, these themes are ones we are living all year. They are just extra potent currently.
Think of this time as a giant nudge (push?) forward. Therein lies the rub. Because when faced with change, we can move forward into the uncertainty of evolution or hold tighter to what was. With Pluto and Uranus showing up, though, change is inevitable, so we might as well lean into it. There is no going back. No matter how much we want to hold on to what was. What ‘was’ got us here, and ‘here’ needs some improvement. The good news is that forward holds the vision and potential of change. The challenging news is that we will have to face some shadowy layers to claim it.
The Sabian symbol for this New Moon Eclipse is “A woman watering her flowers in a garden”. Cultivation means working with nature, not against it. It appreciates the simple things. It represents the patient balance between intention (planting seeds) and the intricate grace that makes them grow. It is the healing and the harmony of humility. This New Moon asks us to stop and smell the flowers because it is in the pause of simplicity we can assess what is truly of value. And what isn’t.
Though we are individuals, we are also part of the whole. Taurus teaches this humbleness rooted in the example of nature herself and the divine cooperation and delicate balance of our ecosystems, large and small. The offering of fairness, none taking more than it needs. The simple rhythm, ebb, and flow of the tides. The trust and faith that the sun will rise again after the darkest night. Patience. Perseverance. Partnership. This is the medicine of the time. Because Taurus truths are not subtle, but they are simple. Taurus truths are not always easy, but they are worth it.
Where this Moon shines in your chart, you are meant to get quiet so you can get really real. You are being asked to reassess the roots of your values and intentions and harness new definitions of safety and security. You are being asked to realize where greed, lack, or ego esteem may have replaced healthy roots and make a real commitment to course correct. Because Taurus so eloquently reminds us that we can appreciate the flowers, but the roots make flowers possible.
“A tree’s beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.”
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This Full Moon Solar Eclipse happens @ 10° Taurus.