Moon in Taurus

Wednesday morning through Friday afternoon

Ahhhhh ... the Moon in Taurus relaxes, enjoying the sensual delights of the manifest world. The Moon is exalted in Taurus, happy in this sign of warmth, comfort, patience, and peace. Our world is full of marvels!

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This morning, the Moon flows energy in trine to the planets and points clustered in hard-driving Capricorn––the North Node, Venus, Pluto, and the asteroids Vesta and Juno––saying, I value your commitment and drive but there's no need to push so hard. Let's allow things to unfold in their own time.

Venus and Pluto reach their conjunction today, aligning our connections with others and our creativity with deep transformation. The Moon's participation wraps this intense combination in a groundedness that helps us stay centered.

Overnight, the Taurus Moon squares Mercury in Aquarius. The squares within the fixed signs can feel the most challenging, as neither side wants to give an inch. With these planets, we see two vital ways of knowing vying for attention.

Mercury in Aquarius is logos, the idea, the intellect, the principle, the word. The Moon in Taurus is the body, which though denigrated in Western philosophy, we now know to be the rich tapestry in which the experience of our lives is woven. How will we solve our own mind-body problem?

This Moon-Mercury square introduces Thursday's aspects, more squares to Aquarian planets. The Moon now squares Mars, and the Sun, raising more questions about how to balance pure thought and body knowing.

The Sun-Moon square marks the first quarter of this waxing lunar cycle, the time when our New Moon intentions are tested. Are we really committed to our goals? How can we get mind and body on board and working together?

Friday morning, the Moon reaches the last degrees of Taurus, squaring Neptune and sextiling Uranus. These are the big visionaries of the cosmos, offering messages in dreams and intuitive flashes. Again, the Taurus Moon keeps us in the present moment, in our bodies. We are living these lives, on this planet, at this time. Everything the cosmos might want to say, becomes manifest here.

The Moon will bounce into bright, gregarious Gemini at 5:20pm EST Friday. In the meantime, here's a gorgeous video that expresses one way Aquarian thought is made real here on Earth: