New Moon in Taurus
Are you creating a real foundation for who you're becoming?
For a few years after I became polycrisis-aware, I was trying to convince people — to show them the mounting evidence — in order to “help them.” As I began to unlearn that, it became a habit for me to run to the opposite tendency with my words: I’d swallow them.
As I grew into acceptance of our predicament, opened to spirituality through connecting with Earth, and continued the inward journey, I realized that I was mostly just talking to the wrong people.
There are SO many caring and generous humans out there who deeply feel what’s happening to the Earth and are feeling more equipped to find their place in what’s going on, launch themselves out of survival mode, and focus on the “what now?” instead.
What I realized and began to embody is that best way to connect with people who want to be who they came here to be right now is to be that person myself and trust the path.
As Gordon White of Rune Soup has said many times and in various ways, “Find what is yours to do.”
I find other, powerful expressions of this same idea in Kai Cheng Thom’s work, in the book I am listening to right now — Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta — in this recent episode of The Great Simplification Podcast, as well as all the recent discourse about hyperlocal work, mutual aid, bioregioning, and taking action on the things we actually have control over. I was also grateful to have this recent piece by Substacker Diana van Eyk land in my inbox, exploring this idea within the intersection of climate activism, geopolitics, and spirituality, an intersection I’m experimental with.
Through the last couple of years in my journey, I come back to Bayo Akomolafe’s quote more and more often—I think it’s for a reframing my thoughts and actions— and it feels important to share with you again this season.
What if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?
How are you resourcing yourself right now?
Regardless of your own personal chart placements, with the passing through of Aries season, there’s a deeply-rooted feeling of who you (Aries) are ready to become. It’s more than a suspicion. It could be an idea you’ve been circling around for years, but you know now’s the time.
And that’s the thing about our identities and how we invite ourselves to evolve. Like time, our evolution is cyclical. This isn’t an idea that is my own, but it’s also my own, through experience. Healing and evolution is something that happens in a spiral shape. The pathless path and all of that. There could be more ways it happens, but this is the shape that I know about.
We’re nestled within Taurus season now. Whether you know exactly—specifically—perfectly—within your spoken language what or who you are becoming, you FEEL it. You are within the pull—whether you’re fighting it or flowing with it.
This season opens doors to cultivating the necessary energetic boundaries to support yourself in the journey of embodying the change you want to see in the world.
That support entails your resources, your environment, your relationships, and more. Taurus is an Earth sign, associated with tenacity, soil, rootedness, values, abundance, and 3D reality. Taurus is ruled by Venus, who is an archetype associated with love and art and money, but also with many extensions of those themes.
Exploring beyond the boundaries of quick and simple astrological associations—especially during the times of relevant transits—has the potential to help you channel energy more effectively along your journey.
So that’s what we’re doing here and why I’m writing to you about astrology during a metacrisis.
Your life is a ceremony
Have you heard the phrase “Where your attention goes, your energy flows”? Zoom out, sink into it, and feel how much this is true. If you know, you know.
When we’re talking about Taurus, we’re talking about what we’re committed to. Our boundaries and lack of boundaries. Our time and attention and energy. What have you placed upon the altar of your life? Who are you when the stories are stripped away? What is whispering to you from between who you are today and who you’re stepping into, in order to be more of who you really are?
“You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time around.” Have you heard this one, too? There may be some exceptions, but from within my experience, we can often keep ourselves confined by the company we keep—whether those walls are physical, energetic, or something else. That’s not to blame the other people. We take part in this through our boundaries or lack of boundaries.
These are both very Taurean concepts, and now is a wonderful time to become aware of your patterns in order to transform them. Or to recommit to those transformations that you already know need to happen.
On this note, I would like to share with you another very timely post that dropped today, “Attention as Worship” by River Kenna.
Sabian Symbol for the New Moon in Taurus 2025
Sabian Symbols are a group of ideas I’ve begun exploring over the last year and have found so much value in sitting with that I simply have to share them with you, even though I don’t possess the language to tell you what they can do for you.
All I’m going to do today is leave you a short description of the Sabian Symbol resonant with the degree of the new moon today. That’s Taurus 8.
This description comes from James Burgess, a man who has generously gifted us with an extensive body of excellent work on these symbols. Taurus 8’s symbol is A sleigh without snow, and here is some of the description from James:
Alignment with the future.
The importance and value of anticipating what inevitable changes are coming
Making something out of nothing with creative optimism
Following a major setback and significant process of letting go, we must look forward to the future with optimism and imagination. What we have managed to learn and earn become the building blocks and resources of a future as yet to be created out of our thoughts.”
A creative optimist will make something out of nothing
Although a sleigh is usually associated with snow, there could be many other uses for it that are not contingent upon a very specific set of natural phenomena.
With the right imaginative attitude of mind, we will find sustainment in Nature for all our needs to be met, since Nature’s key feature is prodigality. Every need we have can be satisfied by the resources we find available. If we expect to find abundance, then we will find it in life at every turn.
It is a question of aligning ourselves elegantly with what is; only then will we be able to resonate with the full potential inherent in any set of circumstances. Our expectation itself is a creative force that attracts satisfaction.
Surely this is how we cope with everyday living? We rise to deal with whatever comes up, with whatever we can find close at hand. To do so often requires that we change our perception from pessimism to optimism.
Something out of nothing
There is magic in our ability to make something out of nothing. Firstly we have to see that there can never be nothing – that there is always something available. Secondly, we need to use the mind as a tool for change – it can manipulate reality to conform to our imagination.
What is the alternative? A life-attitude based on needless acceptance of defeat – tolerance of today’s frustration in the vague hope of a better tomorrow? This viewpoint is indeed widespread, and is the cause of so much disappointment and cynicism.
Trust is a learned skill of the mind – it requires that we look confidently upon the present and optimistically towards the future. With good humour we downplay our frustrations, which we learn to interpret as signals that a mental readjustment is called for.
Here I see lot of useful material if you’re someone working through a process of becoming and cultivating the environment that allows for this deep transformation. I’ve also noticed a lot of resonance within my online and offline communities — a focus on what we can do, rather than what we feel we cannot. Also, a reconsideration of what we can and cannot do. Have you seen this, too?
Taurus season journaling prompts
Where have I been swallowing my words or shrinking my presence — not because I wanted to, but because it felt safer? What might happen if I trusted the path my voice is carving, even when it's misunderstood?
When I reflect on "finding what is mine to do," what recurring ideas, memories, or yearnings come up? Which ones am I ready to tend more seriously, even if no one else sees their value yet?
What is one relationship (person, community, land, practice) where I feel truly resourced? How can I give more energy to those fertile places rather than pouring myself into depleted relationships, or people who are not yet ready to meet the moment?
What values feel non-negotiable for me right now? Where am I tempted to betray them for approval, ease, or belonging? How can I anchor deeper into them without closing myself off from relationality?
Where in my life have I been treating the "lack of snow" (See the Sabian symbol above) as a failure, instead of a call to imagine new uses for the sleigh? What unexpected resources, skills, or connections might I already be carrying, even if these things aren’t recognized by others?
What am I placing on the altar of my life today? What would it mean to make this season of becoming an active ceremony instead of a passive waiting room?
How am I tending to my energetic boundaries? Where do I still need to fortify, clarify, or soften them? (Remembering that a good boundary doesn't just keep things out — it keeps sacred things in.)
If "attention is worship," what have I been unconsciously worshipping lately? How do I want to redirect my devotional energy in the coming days, weeks, moons?
What fears about collapse, survival, belonging, or being "too much" have been pulling at me lately? Can I honor them without letting them drive my choices?
What does "abundance" mean for me now—not the marketed version, but the felt one? How might I live into an abundance that is rooted, reciprocal, and enough for the life I am stewarding?
Tarot message
Now for a different kind of fun. I will pull some cards for you! I’m pausing here to grab some decks and shuffle.
What is the lesson we’re learning in Taurus season? is what I asked the tarot. Out jumped 3 cards - The Five of Flowers, The Student of Spirals, and The Ace of Spirals.
I’d like to transmit the essence of these cards to you without copy pasting what the book says. Though, I will absolutely hit you with some quotes from it, because this deck and the writing goes extremely hard.
The Five of Flowers
Here’s a card that’s been coming out in many a reading lately. In tarot, the number 5 is often associated with conflict or disruption. Something is being placed on hold, or you’re experiencing a blockade or a literal conflict in your life.
We’re being asked to respond to this issue rather than react. We’re being asked to find the opportunities in this conflict or roadblock, instead of viewing it as an excuse to give up or turn around.
These moments can feel like huge losses, so I don’t want to understate the pain you might be experiencing. It’s like this full-body realization that the way you’ve been trying to move forward is currently inaccessible. Your task is not to change your goal (flexibility is good, but giving up is not what’s being asked) but to find another route.
From the guidebook: “We’ve endured the crumbling of empires before. What now?… We must use what we have in new ways… In the exhaustion of conflict and grief, there are spiritual technologies waiting for us. Place worry and instability aside. Let’s see what we can do.”
The Student of Spirals
You’ve got a lot of ideas and inspiration for what lies ahead and who you need to become to meet it. But! Too many ideas. Unfocused ideas. Some days you’re making massive progress, but a lot of times the energetic cost of those days means you spend whole days or weeks recovering from them.
The truth is you’re doing very well. You’ve come a long way in defining your boundaries and creating a way of living that you can make more of the progress you’ve wanted to make, make more art, live more simply, be the change — whatever it is. You’ve been a student of this spiral-shaped way of becoming for a long time and you are moving into a new level of intentionality within that.
However—there’s more work to be done to create structure, routine, boundaries, and an environment for yourself that is conducive to allowing you to reach the next steps. If you’re getting too many ideas to act on, write them down or voice note them.
Be gentle with yourself here. You will sometimes fall off, crash out, or whatever. This is normal, even if you’re someone who has advanced significantly on your journey. Expect to expand and contract on a regular basis. Be a student of those expansions and contractions. Notice what leads to expansion. Notice what seems to cause contraction. If you fall into isolation of the self, notice why.
Much of this will be related to your boundaries, whether they’re too rigid or too permeable. Document what you notice and find the patterns. You’ve transformed so much in your life and taken on many responsibilities. For the next layer of responsibilities to come in, you will need to discern what plates you are willing to stop spinning.
Ace of Spirals
This card is speaking of the creativity and momentum that comes with this moment, and how we’re putting it to good use. An Ace card is a seed—wonderfully synchronistic with the fact that this is a new moon—and this suit, of spirals, is related to the fire element. So, creative force, inspiration, and putting our energy in the right places.
Where is the right place to put your energy? I can’t tell you that. Return to the journaling prompts for some guidance from within.
Fire alchemizes and transforms. Creates and destroys. Embracing the both/and is helpful here as you embody another layer, another lesson. There is sometimes a fear of being cast out as a hypocrite when you’re in a place of transforming your self, your community, your social circle, your life, your world. But paradox is a part of all of us.
How will we learn to embrace paradox as a teacher and a friend if we hide the truth of how messy our transformation really is? Cognitive dissonance is telling us the truth all the time. Paradox is allowing us to see that multiple things can be true at once and that not everything is for us and that’s ok.
Relational praxis with the Ace of Spirals: Who can you work with in your communities, even if you don’t agree on all the things? What people, places, things, opportunities, or ideas can you weave together in service of your goals and vision? How can you be use this moment and momentum to gather like-minded people together, even if they aren’t in 100% agreement on everything?
From the guidebook: “What needs to be braided together? What needs to be separated? The candle is already lit. Let it lead you into new and generative directions.”
Taurus and abundance
I’d like to end it on a voice note I recorded a week ago, tuning into one of the key siloed-off themes of Taurus as an archetype. If you’re someone who has been working on your ideas about abundance, I’d love to hear how this concept has changed shape for your throughout your life.
Redefining our ideas about abundance is one of the big things we’re going to be doing over the next few years and decades, I feel. Here’s my voice note:
And the transcript:
“Yeah. We've we've had the time to, like, be comfortable, choose convenience. slow down all of that stuff. And you did it. If you managed to slow down, that's no small thing—as one of my former co-workers would have said, Chelsea, she's just so inspiring to me. Anyway, it is no small thing to have come that far, especially with how stubborn you know you are.
You want things to change. You're pushing for positive change. But it's also like, you're a little bit stubborn. Like you're digging your heels in and you're sort of like, no —Embodied Astrology was talking about how wealth and abundance are two of the most common keywords with Taurus.
And, you know, we get to help redefine what what the words wealth and abundance mean. But we've also been, you know, there's been the ideas that we've inherited based on the words wealth and abundance are some of the things that have shaped our life the most so far.
And so it's (you doing that redefinition work through being and becoming) giving people a clear picture of what that means in the time that we're currently in.
And that's just going to illuminate so many things for people. It's just not even a question.”
Chart exploration
For some self-exploration of your chart, find Venus, find what planets and other objects are in Taurus, and even if you don’t have planets in Taurus, what house is this new moon associated with in your chart? That is an area where seeds are being planted in your life.
More themes to weave in with this new moon are:
Moon in Taurus squaring Pluto in Aquarius
Moon in Taurus squaring Mars in Leo
Pluto in Aquarius trining Uranus in Taurus
Venus in Pisces trining Mars in Leo
Pluto in Aquarius opposing Mars in Leo
Venus in Pisces conjunct Saturn in Pisces!!!! (Big teacher for me rn. Well, ok, so is the Pluto-Mars opposition—again 🤡)
As always, there’s lots more. Stay curious!
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