This Taurus New Moon is not a soft, sleepy lunation about bubble baths and candles. This is a very dynamic New Moon, arriving with a lot of tension around money, resources, stability, and survival. It still offers positive energy of new starts, but figurative tectonic plates are shifting beneath us.
The New Moon perfects at 25° of Taurus conjunct Algol, one of the most feared fixed stars in astrology, associated with catastrophe, losing one’s head, and situations that spiral beyond control. And this New Moon is also conjunct Mercury, the trickster.
Oh my goodness, I have been having so much trouble with mercurial things lately. Technology glitches, scheduling confusion, communication mishaps, things disappearing and reappearing. Mercury reminds us that we are never as in control as we think we are. And at this New Moon, Mercury is moving through the final degrees of Taurus, nearing the 29th anaretic degree, often called the degree of crisis and decay.
Taurus rules money, food, land,...
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