Dear Cosmic Friends, emBodied on Planet Earth!
Green & Growing from the Ground UP – photo by Melanie, Apr 2020
The Earth Day (yes – today Apr 22!) NEW MOON in early TAURUS is coming!
TAURUS is the first Earth sign in the yearly cosmic cycle.
Nature has awakened in ARIES. Now, the EARTH delights all our senses, and is ripe for seeding & planting.
The MOON is exalted in TAURUS – so nourishing, comforting and feeding.
Yet, unsettling URANUS, since last year in TAU shows up next to the New MOON – which in turn activates URANUS – as the SUN (Apr 26) and MERCURY (Apr 30) will too.
We’re in for all kinds of surprises and paradigm shifts with the New Moon with Uranus the disruptor / liberator / awakener Archetype.
No boredom. No status quo. No business as usual.
The Crisis we’re now in, esp. since it ‘all came together’ with multiple PISCES influences, influenzas, influencers, and confluences, enhanced through the extensive MERCURY in PI incl retro phase from early Feb to mid-April, can challenge and disrupt our social fabric – and / or wake us up.
URANUS in TAU & SATURN in AQ.
Societies and Humanity are at a crossroad for the Future.
Yet, a Point of No Return can turn into a Turning Point.
Also, since PLUTO end of CAP is now stationary, and in turnaround mode to retro which starts on Apr 25.
It’ll be the first Planet to turn retro after a long No-Retro phase since mid-Jan (except for MERCURY mid-Feb – early March) where outer events rolled out fast & furiously – and have gained a life of their own.
Time to integrate, and check in, esp. when it comes to Power (PLUTO), combined with responsibility and authority, and established structures (CAP). With PLUTO retro (Apr 25 – Oct 4) it’s time to roll back on giving Power away / delegating / projecting it to the ‘ones in charge’, and find Power within, call it Soul Power.
MERCURY, at the end of ARIES, will square PLUTO & JUPITER on the day when PLUTO goes retro (Apr 25).
Game changing thoughts, messages, information?
Sooo, the New MOON in early TAURUS, ‘delivers’ URANUS – the paradigm shifter (in TAU since 2018 / 19 – 2026), and PLUTO’s turnaroud.
The Old Establishment & Empire & ‘Operating System’ expires (says also PLUTO end of CAP – hugely ON in 2020, compliments triple conjunction from JUPITER, Apr 4, June 29, Nov 10).
The Earth doesn’t belong to us.
We belong to the Earth.
And with URANUS in TAU:
Wake UP, Earthlings!
Earth is our Mother.
We are of the Earth.
This is to the Renaissance of Earth Consciousness!
Here’s the in-depth article dedicated to URANUS in TAURUS.
We are Children of the Earth, and inhabit an EarthBody.
Let’s truly treat the Earth as our Home that we love and care for (rather than an exploitation ground). Also a message from the North Node in CANCER / SN in CAP (since Nov 2018, until early June 2020) and their Eclipses.
Latest major one: Annular ‘Ring of Fire’ (with the Corona – yep, that’s what the C viruses are named after – of the SUN visible!) Christmas Solar Release Eclipse on Dec 25 / 26 in early CAP – calling us to release old authoritarian, abusive control structures on all levels – the ‘Old Empire’, and to ‘jump’ out of their Ring.
Next one: Another Annular ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Summer Solstice Seed Eclipse on June 20 / 21 – planting new seeds from the True Home we belong to. We’re preparing and are being prepared for it…
And now, 1/3 of the World population is ‘out of’ the known economic ‘business as usual’ a la CAP – which of course is quite unsettling when it comes to security and stability (TAU), let alone our need to be social.
Yet, Nature is taking a breather, and the air and waters of our Home Planet show us how fast recovery can happen when humans stop their detrimental impact. In that sense, a successful ecological experiment!
Many humans are understandably stressed and depressed by being prevented from physical closeness and socializing, given the Corona Crisis restrictions. At least, there’s the option to create virtual meet-ups online (URANUS).
And thankfully, many of us can still be in Nature – where the Medicine of fresh Air, of soUlar Vitamin D, of Springy re-greening and awakening can be found – sooo good for our wellness, vitality, and happiness! Hope you can and do get OUT too!
Yet again, a wake-up call for Humanity, compliments game-changer / liberator URANUS (“I’m outa here.”), to examine (SATURN) the system (early AQ, ruled by URANUS) and what of its status quo pre-crisis is actually now on its death bed and ‘expiring’ since it’s suffocating and unsustainable as-is, for the Earth as for Humanity.
Exploitation and oppression in so many ways have come to a point of no return that can be a Turning Point and paradigm shift.
Esp. as SO much shadow is coming to the Light of awareness now.
2020 is the year of the Big Reveal.
Compliments JUPITER-PLUTO end of CAP, where the SATURN-PLUTO alignment happened on Jan 12, and marked the end of authority & control in power structures as we know them (or rather: didn’t know the whole extent of, since hidden power has been concealed and institutionalized).
As we now face the reality, evidence, and effects (SATURN) of what the human-made power structures are capable of (PLUTO in CAP) it’s time to see the bigger picture (JUPITER) which sets us free, brings our intrinsic power back, and affects transformation (PLUTO) since we don’t feed the system energetically anymore.
JUPITER meets PLUTO 3 times this year: Apr 4, June 29, and Nov 12.
The initial conjunction, brought out by the SuperMOON on Apr 7 in LIBRA – ARIES (Balancing ‘Both’ Worlds) has opened the scene (where many of us don’t buy into the consensus reality anymore and don’t let ourselves be shut down either), while the next one end of June (which will be a BIG month of changes!) takes us to the depth of the issues (darkness and shadow must be seen!). The last one mid Nov can help us move through and outgrow the ‘Old Empire’.
Which helps us with starting to co-build the NEW, as JUPITER & SATURN start a new 20-year socio-political-economic cycle on Winter Solstice(!), Dec 21, 2020, on the first degree of AQ, based on a new / awakened Earth Consciousness (URANUS in TAU) showing up in food, money / value exchange, and economy / ecology, and calling for innovative solutions by a Humanity-in-Rebirth.
In the meantime / acutely, SATURN in AQ is squared by the New MOON with URANUS.
SATURN entered AQ on March 21 for a ‘test phase’ until July 1 (full-on from Dec 16 on. A test for Humanity (also ON Humanity?!), esp. to preserve Freedom & Community, despite Fear (and F.E.A.R.), and the Ring of Restrictions. The challenges can actually help forge solidarity and networks in / for Humanity.
Since MARS entered AQ (March 30 – May 12), passed SATURN on March 31 and squared URANUS on Apr 7, the Day of the SuperMoon(!), Freedom Fighters & Light Warriors have stepped up and confronted ‘the system’ – the themes are out, and controversial (the nature of MARS).
SATURN in AQ, the sign ruled by URANUS, squares and challenges URANUS, now in earthy TAURUS (2018/19 – 2026).
It’s high Time to Wake UP, Earthlings! EmBody Freedom!
When if not NOW?!
The square from SATURN to URANUS will be exact in 2021 (exact Feb, June, and Dec), and the closest / most potent this year now, via the Earth Day New MOON on Apr 22 with URANUS.
It sets the tone for more shifts to come next year.
When it comes to Freedom, here’s my all-time / timeless reminder of what I learned from spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti (born with TAURUS SUN and AQ Rising): True Freedom has no opposite.
As long as freedom is a freedom vs. …, freedom from…, freedom for…, it’s still bound and not ‘the real thing’.
Nature (TAU) is our teacher (Nature is always free since it just-IS), We ARE Nature.
Freedom is our inalienable True Nature!
Gardening and planting can be the perfect body-mind-grounding wellness practice for starters, bringing the EarthBody Consciousness right home at this time where ‘earthing’ is so important.
The TAURUS New Moon and shortly after is the primo time for planting new seeds, figuratively and literally.
Happening in my life and backyard too.
And with New MOON / URANUS: Planting Seeds of Freedom!
Earth My Body!
Here’s the video of the song sung so powerfully by young Spirit Elder Nicole Sangsuree – what a legacy before her body was taken back by the Earth, in Thailand!
Where early TAU is in your birth chart (TAU House, Planets, Nodes, and esp. if your birthday / Solar Return is these days, or your MOON is in TAU) points you to the area in your life that’s now primed for a conception (MOON/SUN, Yin-Yang), and that’s where Seeds of Freedom & Awakening (URANUS) are planted.
BE both active in the ‘planting’ and receptive for what is being planted in you!
1st House:
Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House:
Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House:
You in Your Local Environment
4th House:
You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House:
Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House:
Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House:
Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House:
Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House:
What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House:
Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House:
Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House:
Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
The Magic of Connection – photo by Melanie Apr 2020
Loving this quote by Eckhart Tolle
(from: A New Earth):
“Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings’ perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves.”
Being Awake in our True Nature, as Nature, in Nature.
Magic-All that-IS.
Those of you born with URANUS in SCO (Dec 1974 – Apr 1975, and Sept 1975 – Nov 1981) will have their URANUS Opposition in the years of URANUS in TAU – an awakening / liberation in mid-life which can be a huge catalyst for radical life changes.
All of us (independent of age) esp. if we have SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets in TAURUS (or in LEO, SCO, AQ) are in for surprises too, and we’ll get a Uranian ‘kick in the butt’ to be liberated and reinvent ourselves esp. in the area of life related to our TAURUS House in the chart.
Let’s take a good look at the
TAURUS NEW MOON ‘birth chart’
The New Moon will be exact at 7:26 pm PDT tomorrow Apr 22.
The NEW MOON in early TAURUS approaches URANUS (the MOON connects with URANUS on Apr 23, and the SUN on Apr 26).
- How can we find comfort in the constant shifts that take us out of our comfort zone – or even pro-actively seek the edge rather than the comfort trap?
- Can we sloooww down and listen with all our senses, while things are whirling?
- What does our EarthBody call us to – when we’re in full Presence?
SUN and MOON and all Planets entering TAURUS since last year, and until 2026 are being initiated by URANUS.
Things aren’t as solid and ‘matter-of-fact’ anymore as we’re used to.
Calling for like-heals-like Medicine, as in:
Finding and standing our ground, with / despite disruptive, unsettling, unpredictable energies, relating to the Earth herself and to our Earth body…
And at the same time, just as, if not more important: EmBodying unconditional Freedom.
Being in Nature, and in our True Nature brings shifts in Consciousness.
The New Moon with URANUS in early TAU is in a square with SATURN in early AQ (ruled by URANUS).
The MOON squares SATURN on Apr 22, the SUN already on Apr 21, and URANUS 3x in 2021, yet very closely and activated by the New Moon now.
Important to stand our ground and be solid, trust our body, emBody freedom in wellness, and not buy into fear & separation that’s plaguing Humanity now.
When others attack and judge you for speaking freely (happened here) don’t go into defensive but keep holding and being the Light.
Speaking of speaking freely and authentically (MERCURY since Apr 10 in ARIES, ruled by MARS):
Purple Delights (with grounded yet light ‘winged’ sandals) – photo by Melanie
The Mercurial Messenger / Communicator / Mind Archetype is about to settle into TAURUS on Apr 27, until May 11!
Buuut, MERCURY will pass unpredictable and not-at-all settled URANUS first – right at the Taurean entrance ‘gate’ on Apr 30, after squaring SATURN on Apr 28.
Check out the full article for MERCURY in TAURUS – esp. if you have TAURUS in your birth chart.
An incentive for all of us to think about our true values…
Johfra Bosschart: VENUS Rules TAURUS (and the Martian / Aries Warrior at rest)
VENUS, Ruler of TAURUS, and the beautiful ‘Evening Star’ we’ve seen for weeks, is now in mid-GEMINI, and slowing down for Her Retro Journey (only every 1 1/2 years) which starts on May 12 and goes until June 24.
An adjustment and re-evaluation of relationships incl. comparison / competition with others (which come up big time pre- and in early VENUS retro – the LIBRA undertone) to find our intrinsic value from within (the TAURUS undertone of Venus ‘Morning Star’ – as also shown in the painting by J.B. – above the Venusian Goddess riding the Sacred Bull).
With VENUS in GEMINI it’s also about Alchemy of dualities, i.o.w., when we have our Inner Masculine and Feminine and other polarities integrated we own and attract from our own intrinsic value.
More about VENUS in GEMINI and VENUS retro in my blog article.
Also in the TAU New MOON ‘Field’:
Light Warrior MARS in AQ (until May 12) in AIR Trine with VENUS in GEM. Their alignment isn’t exact technically, but energetically active for a whole month, Apr 7 – May 7.
Learning, connecting, and meeting in dialogue contributes to community building. Let the Venusian lightness and the Martian fierceness come together.
Some ‘wild cards’ of the New Moon energy are the unaspected Planets NEPTUNE in PISCES, CHIRON & LILITH in ARIES, and MERCURY in ARIES.
An unaspected Planet in a birth chart can be like an outsider of the family / group, yet giving us a strong drive to be ourselves rather than ‘being nice’ to hopefully get love and appreciation (also apropos VENUS pre-retro). We see how fake / compensated this can be, and that we’re only healthy when we’re true to ourselves.
Unaspected Planets are uninfluenced / undiluted by / mixed with other Archetypes, hence come out stronger as themselves.
All this and more relates in the present collective New Moon energy field to
- NEPTUNE in PISCES –
Just coming out of the Scorpionic part (central 10 degrees of a Water sign) which it’s been in over the last 4 years since 2016 and will go back to only once more from Aug – Feb 2021.
Themes for NEPTUNE in central PI:
Danger of being swept up and away by pervasive / invasive collective energies that are hard to control. Wanting to disappear, escape, going into addictive realms that end up controlling you. Not ‘going under’ yet looking behind the veil when there are hunches and openings. Processing and releasing…
- CHIRON / LILITH in early ARIES.
They came together (every 10 years) with the Equinoctial ARIES New Moon on March 24.
LILITH is moving on now…
Showing up in our Inner Wild and authentic, original, unconditioned Self is the Medicine.
Very relevant for the present medical / collective healing crisis.
Check out what that means to you.
Of course, that can provoke and trigger others. Don’t take on their blame / judgment. No need to go into defence or please.
I’ve also found that since CHIRON entered ARIES (Feb 2019 – here’s the full article for this shift), early childhood wounds are coming up for healing in lots of us Humans. The Medicine being to meet them with full presence, regardless how raw this may be, and to let these wounds help you draw out the authentic YOU.
Cuz it’s YOUR Life after all….
- And we’ve heard from MERCURY in ARIES already –
I’d be surprised if you hadn’t stepped into this: New Conversation. Fierce & Authentic Communication
Its ‘grand finale’ is building up for APR 25:
MERCURY end of AR squares stationary PLUTO (which goes retro on that DAY) and JUPITER end of CAP.
Dare to think outside the ‘box’ of the consensus reality and other conditioned power structures.
Do you have controversial news to share?
Speak with deep understanding and wisdom, and share the bigger picture – with the awareness that there’s never just ONE Truth.
Lastly, let’s find the
Sabian Symbol
for the New Moon at 3º24′ TAURUS:
Rainbow at Corroborree AUS – photo by Tanya Devine
TAURUS 4°:
THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.
KEYNOTE: Riches that come from linking the celestial and the earthly nature.
In Genesis, the rainbow is the symbol of the Covenant of God with Noah.
In all mythologies it expresses, in one way or another, a linking process — or the bridge used by divine beings to communicate with mortals.
What the linking process brings to the individual consciousness is elusive, as the rainbow never ends where you are, yet it is the source of symbolic, universally valid wealth.
All wealth, in a very real sense, comes from “commerce”; i.e. from the commingling of minds and from contracts, and thus is based on faith in the validity of a promise.
At this fourth stage of the five-fold process we are given a mode of operation, which reminds us of the symbol for the second stage, “an electrical storm.” Humans need not be overawed by the celestial display of power, for it leads to a fruitful contact with beings of light. This is a natural kind of COMMUNION, involving a transubstantiation of matter.”
Nice link in this image to URANUS (a rare and unique appearance) showing up next to the TAURUS New Moon – like a Rainbow linking Heaven and Earth. Yet it can’t be found in tangible form. Just like Beings of Light.
True Wealth / Value (TAURUS) has to do with Freedom – says URANUS.
There are probably many more layers to the symbol as are colours of the Rainbow. I leave it to miraculous appearances to reveal unique messages to you!
May the Earth Day TAURUS New MOON with URANUS help affirm your Authentic Self!
Blessings for EmBodying the True & Free YOU!
Melanie
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