Taurus New Moon: May 7, 8:21pm PDT

 

May 7, 2024

8:21pm PDT 

18 Taurus 02 

I am always excited for a new moon.  By the time we are at the last phase (balsamic)  of the 29 day lunar cycle I am ready for the new opportunities that come with the new moon.   That's my usual feeling.   But I gotta say the Aries lunar month that started with the Great American Eclipse and the 29 days that followed was perhaps too much energy even for me because I started to find myself longing for good, ol' sure and steady Taurus about ten days ago!  

Anyway, the Taurus new moon has a beautiful chart and there are many opportunities this month.    But a lot of it will come when we slow down.   Consider not juggling to the full force like we normally do.  Just sayin'.  You will find my whole report HERE.   Enjoy this Taurus cycle.   :)  

Saturn Semisquare Pluto. May 6

 

In January of 2020 Saturn began a new cycle with Pluto when the two formed a conjunction in the sign of Capricorn.   For those of us who remember January of 2020, let’s ask, hmm what could have been going on  that felt transformative and limiting at the same time?    Where was there loss?  Where was there mass experience?  Hmmm, what could it have been?   Oh, yeah, Covid.   

 

Saturn and Pluto do not form conjunctions that often because their odd shaped elliptical paths only cross 3 times every 100 years.    Such was the case this last century with conjunctions in 1914, 1947, 1982.   Once they connect through a conjunction, they begin a new journey that will usually have something significant come up around their squares and their oppositions.  For example, the window of 1980-1984 conjunction in Libra was followed by a square in 1992-1995 and an opposition in 2001-2002.      In the landscape of 1980-1984, the computer went from room sized blocks of tech in Fortune 500 companies to a two-foot box on a desk in homes across the world.    Pluto, never one to get lost in nuance also brought AIDS that also went across the world.   Then at the square (92-95) there was the First World Trade Center bombing and Bosnia and Rwandan leaders who were hell bent on destroying their population through genocide war crimes.     Of course by the time we got to the opposition (2001-2002) --- we got 9/11.    Okey Dokey.     

 

Once this new conjunction of 2020 took place we now put the upcoming squares and opposition on our radar which are: 

2028-2029:   Saturn in Taurus  Square 

2035-2026: Saturn in Leo oppose Pluto in Aquarius 

2044:  Saturn in Gemini Square Pluto in Pisces 

 

Saturn Semisquare Pluto is smaller but potent aspect that folds into these cycles as well which we are in the middle of one of those cycles: 

May 6, 2024 - Pluto 2 Aquarius 06

September 25 - Pluto 29 Cap 42 

January 26, 2025 – Pluto 1 Aquarius 53

 

In the United States, the Trump Campaign Finance Trial in NY and the student protests are pulling the focus of the media at this first hit of the aspect.   Perhaps there will be a tie into the events of now with events in September and January.    

Let’s watch this space. 

For more information in the conjunction, squares and oppositions of the past go to Jessica Davidson blog from 2019. 

Astrology for the week of April 29 - May 6

 

Disseminating

We begin the week in Disseminating lunar phase which started on April 27.  

     

 

During this three day phase we share information; find a teacher or someone who has more knowledge. Perhaps there was a big ol’ blow out on the full and one feels in need of support and help, this is the phase to reach out to one who knows more. This is when we find a rabbi or a minister or therapist who gives us more insight.   And of course, you too may be ready to teach and share your own information.  

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing your ability to get a 10,000-foot view?  How are you connecting with others who bring an outsider or ‘foreign’ pov?   How are you tapping humor?   How are your reaching out to someone who brings a new philosophy?   

 

 

Special focus:

4/28: Mars conjunct Neptune 28 Pisces 52. Actions are based on the metaphysical or unworldly?   What signs are we getting that need actions?  

4/29: Venus enters Taurus.  Three weeks of relaxness, indulgence, love on love. 

4/30 : Mars enters Aries. Six weeks of fire on fire.  Actions speed up.  

4/30 : Venus square Pluto 2 Aquarius 06.  Love that feels dead may need to be booted or re-booted.  Rebirth of Love. 

 

 

Last Quarter Moon Phase

May 1, 2024 

4:27am PDT    

   

 

Last Quarter moon:  Now we do the final adjustments to the seeds we planted on new. The final call, the final letters to send, we follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

 

Focus on:

What actions are you taking that support your goals on the new moon that benefit by groups and friends?  How are your friends in alignment with your personal goals?   How are you in alignment with friends and group goals?  Where does new technology impact your goals you planted on new moon?  

 

 

Special focus 

5/2 : Pluto station retrograde  2 :06 Aquarius.   (See Separate Post) 

5/3 : Mars sextile Pluto.  Actions for self are motivated by input from groups and friends.   Power to get up and do is strong.   

 

 

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

May 4, 2024  

1:25pm PDT

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing your wishy washiness?  How are you releasing your fear-based self?  How are you releasing the inner ‘crazy’?  How are you finding comfort in the release?  

 

 

Special focus:

 

5/6: Mercury conjunction Chiron.  Healing thoughts can first come out as anger.   What needs to be healed to be more authentic.  Change your thinking change your reality?

5/6: Sun sextile Saturn.  Inspired practicality brings helpful results.  Strong faith.   Synchronistic manifestations abound.  Prayer works, too.   

 

 

 

Taurus New May 7, 2024 8:21pm PDT 18 Taurus 02

Pluto Station Retrograde May 2

 

Pluto and its heart.   photo  NASA / JHUAPL /SwRI

Pluto station retrograde 

May 2, 2024 

10:47am PDT 

Pluto dates: 

January 9, 2024, Pluto enters new shadow (29 Cap 38) 

January 20, 2024, Pluto returns to Aquarius 

Feb 1 Pluto exits old 2023 shadow (0 Aquarius 22) 

May 2, 2024, Pluto stations retrograde (2 Aquarius 06) 

Sept 3, 2024, Pluto re-enters Capricorn 

Oct 11, 2024, Pluto stations direct (29 Cap 38) 

Nov. 19, 2024 Pluto re-enters Aquarius 

Feb 2, 2025, Pluto exits shadow (2 Aquarius 06) 

 

The dance with Pluto continues as it ping-pongs between Aquarius and Capricorn.   Last year Pluto was in Aquarius between March 23 and June 11^th, and it spent the rest of 2023 in Capricorn.   This year on January 20, Pluto re-entered Aquarius.

 

Now it turns retrograde on May 2 and will back track over any new ground it covered since January.  It will go from 2 degrees 06 until on September 3 it moves back into Capricorn.   Once in Capricorn it will tie up any lose ends on the journey it started in 2008.   Then on October 11 it will turn direct and finally on November 19 it will return to Aquarius where it will be for the next twenty years.   We have gotten a taste of our future.  The chip in the brain that was announced in January, the battle with TikTok, the fear of AI and always the UFOs.   It’s all a tiny appetizer.  Once the retrograde starts we will ponder a lot about where our world is heading.  New versus old then old versus new, there is so much to contemplate in the Aquarius versus Capricorn landscape.  However, never lose sight that Saturn is the original ruling planet of both Capricorn and Aquarius.   So somewhere in all the mess, is Saturn and his divine timing.   

 

As always we are well served to watch all the aspects of planets with Pluto this cycle.   

 

4/21 : Sun square Pluto 2 Aquarius 05.  The first square between the Sun in Taurus.   How is the rigidity and stability of Taurus in need of new novelty, ingenuity and how does it connect to the groups in our life? 

 

4/30 : Venus square Pluto 2 Aquarius 06.  Love that feels dead may need to be booted or re-booted.  Rebirth of Love. 

 

5/3 : Mars sextile Pluto.  Actions for self are motivated by input from groups and friends.   Power to get up and do is strong.   

For those folks with any planet Zero to 2 of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius ---well, you are feeling Pluto no doubt.    That feeling of loss is potent.   Not sure what to do or where to go, the answer is let go.   Some stuff needs to shed starting with any foolish thought that we are in control of another human and most situations.   When in doubt tap intuition.  

 

 

  

Finally!

 

Mercury.  Is.  Direct.  

Scorpio Full Moon April 23, 2024 4:48pm PDT

 

April 23, 2024 

4:49pm PDT 

 

Scorpio Full Moon

4 Scorpio 17 

In 2022 and 2023 the Scorpio Full Moons were attached to eclipses.   Those were not light and breezy full moons.    Now we have a Scorpio full moon without an eclipse, great…. but Pluto is in the mix.      Sigh. 

Pluto will be in Aquarius for twenty years and not every Scorpio full moon will be in aspect to Pluto.   However, at year two of Pluto (barely) in Aquarius there is a T-square between Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio.    Pluto in Aquarius is asking for novelty and ingenuity, finding unity through big thought.  When Aquarius gets in a tizzy is when it can’t understand how others don’t see the big idea…. “damn, it, people, it’s clear as day” says indignant Aquarius.   The other two fixed signs, Scorpio, Taurus can also hang on too tight.   This is a tough full moon.   We should anticipate stories in the news that suggest a battle of wills.   Stories of people hanging on to the outmoded and out of date.  Stories that suggest rigidity that is obsolete and people defending stubborn ways.    At the same time there could also be examples of cold, ruthless perhaps depraved stories of people working out dark themes.    In the meantime, people who struggle with control issues could feel challenged if they should have a bout of insecurity or depression.  Finding the higher level in all three signs is a worthy goal during this three-day full moon cycle.    Replace rigidity with practicality.   Ask yourself a lot of questions.   Why am I hanging on so hard?   Is there any practical benefit in me continuing this choice?    Talk to your psyche and ask, “Must my old wounds control my every move or my every emotion?”    Consider replacing the need to be in a clan with the need to have fresh thoughts and fresh thinkers.  

This is THE full moon to release tired thoughts and patterns.  

In addition, we are still feeling the electrical charge of Jupiter and Uranus who formed a conjunction on April 20^th.     Where are you feeling a gravitational pull?   What is the universe throwing in your path to get your attention?   How are you expanding practical solutions  in a novel way?   And above all, how is your creativity getting juiced up?  How can your emotions activate a mindful response?    

Use information that comes up on this full moon to speed up your evolution on issues that have needed healing.    The key is of course, something needs to be dropped.   Just sayin’ 

Astrology this Week. April 19 - April 27

 

Gibbous Moon launched on

April 19, 2024  

2:14pm PDT   

 

 

Focus on:  How are you refining your schedule?  How are you refining your daily activities?  How are you refining your diet and better health routines?   What are you learning about your health matters and how does it impact actions you planted on Aries new moon?  

 

Special focus

4/19: Mars sextile Uranus.  Actions that are unusual and spiritual.  Pragmatic but weird.   Solutions to problems that may suddenly appear.  

4/20: Jupiter conjunction Uranus 21 Taurus 51 (See separate post)

4/21 : Venus conjunction Chiron.  Fears around being alone and independent are exposed.  Feeling unloveable if authentic is challenged.   

4/21 : Sun square Pluto 2 Aquarius 05.  The first square between the Sun in Taurus.   How is the rigidity and stability of Taurus in need of new novelty, ingenuity and how does it connect to the groups in our life? 

 

 

April 23, 2024

Full Moon

4:48pm PDT

4 Scorpio 18

 

Full Moon:  We make the needed adjustments on the things we planted. Usually, emotions are up and running and for those people who perhaps did not utilize the new moon and the rest of the waxing moon, this is when emotions can get the better of us. There can often be a big emotional break, for no other reason than to get back on track.   Some partnership will offer up some balance.  The moon is bright and full and there is no room for shadows, what is reflecting on you?  

 

Focus on:   (To Come)

 

 

Special focus 

4/25 : Mercury station direct  (see above) 

 

 

Disseminating

April 27, 2024

1:53pm PDT        

     

 

Disseminating: Share information; find a teacher or someone who has more knowledge. Perhaps there was a big ol’ blow out on the full and one feels in need of support and help, this is the phase to reach out to one who knows more. This is when we find a rabbi or a minister or therapist who gives us more insight.   And of course, you too may be ready to teach and share your own information.  

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing your ability to get a 10,000 foot view?  How are you connecting with others who bring an outsider or ‘foreign’ pov?   How are you tapping humor?   How are your reaching out to someone who brings a new philosophy?