A Great Mutation - Embodied Astrology for Taurus Season (April 19 - May 20, 2020)
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“Some do not understand that we must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
Confucius
Hello friends. Welcome to Taurus Season,
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Taurus-energy rules our attractions and bonds with earthly materials and the desires and needs our sense organs dictate. Our eyes look for beauty, our noses search for sustenance, sweetness and sex, our mouths crave fats and flavors, our skin responds to softness and sun, our ears attune to harmonies. Our bodies are living, breathing instruments made to seek out and align with pleasure and satisfaction. We might have wildly different preferences, but we all need to fill the same basic needs and, on some level, we all want comfort.
Taurus rules all basic possessions and the instinct to have them and keep them. In this way, Taurus also rules hungers and possessiveness – the deep inner needs that must be satisfied. When we find what satisfies, value is placed and determined. Therefore, Taurus rules wealth. It is a symbol of what we want to have, how we attract it and what we keep. Wherever Taurus is in a person’s chart signifies a space where accumulation is natural and the need to build is innate. In these spaces, beauty, sensuality and status will rule. The themes of these houses will be realized through stubborn determination, instinctual repetition and bodily insistence. Remember, all signs are included in the zodiacal wheel. Your chart (whether or not you would identify yourself with Taurus in any way) contains this energy, too.
Over the next 30 days of Taurus Season, our attention will be brought to the themes of wealth, possession, and enough-ness. Do we have the resources we need as individuals, families, communities, nations? As the Sun forms a conjunction with Uranus and highlights the growing Saturn/Uranus square, we’ll become increasingly aware of the growing need for societal change spurred by intensifying instability and disparities in conditions.
Four planets will station retrograde over the course of Taurus Season. Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter will all be revisiting the later degrees of Capricorn, suggesting that while there may appear to be a flattening curve or promise of economic recovery, there is still more of this virus and its repercussions to come, and the larger impact of this pandemic will not be revealed until the end of the year. On a personal level, these retrogrades ask us to turn inward and reflect upon our own participation and complicitness. As we each struggle to make sense out of this situation and how to respond, we will come into closer contact with our needs for authentic, meaningful purpose and embodied agency.
Venus will also station for a 43-day retrograde through Gemini. As Taurus’ planetary ruler, Venus’ retrograde is significant and lends to the back-and-forth, uncertain sensations of this season. When Venus is retrograde, love and money are the issues we’re (re)considering. In Gemini, we’ll need to contend with duality between what we present to the outer world and how we actually feel. Attention will be forced upon the schism between appearance and action. Do we walk the talk or do we just talk? When it comes to money, especially in times of crisis and financial insecurity, where do our values and allegiances actually lie? Are we really in this together or is that simply what we want to believe?”
I’ve covered all of these themes in this month’s Embodied Astrology podcast and audio horoscopes where you can get much more information about Taurus Season and how to work with its deeply profound messages. Your horoscopes are linked below, click here to listen to the podcast.
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These horoscopes are sign-specific for the month ahead of TAURUS Season (APRIL 19-MAY 20, 2020.) Check your sun sign to understand more about your inherent nature and ego, your rising sign to understand more about what's going on in your life right now, and your moon sign to understand more about your relationships and emotional landscape. Horoscopes are poetic pieces of mystical suggestion. Take what works and leave the rest. Use the affirmations as questions, metaphors, and reminders.
ARIES
What is truly important is being clarified rapidly.
Don’t linger in letting go of bullshit.
If you know that something doesn’t matter in the same way anymore,
trust your judgement, check in with what’s essential, try and find the core.
Only retain what is life giving.
Listen to the Aries horoscope for Taurus Season here
TAURUS
Success is subjective.
Let the beauty you love be the work that you do.
Relationships make all the difference.
Presence is key.
Listen to the Taurus horoscope for Taurus Season here
GEMINI
For all there is beyond your control,
there is also so much you can affect.
Your effectiveness relies upon your honesty.
Honesty begins here, now. This moment, this breath.
Make sure to give yourself a moment of pause and presence
before believing all the things you think you’re thinking.
Listen to the Gemini horoscope for Taurus Season here
CANCER
Imagine all your loves and relationships,
the networks of your connections
breathing together.
A shared heartbeat rippling
across time and space.
Listen to the Cancer horoscope for Taurus Season here
LEO
There isn’t a plan that will get you where you’re going.
Because, the path is always still unfolding.
So let your future plans and strategies drift away.
Just breathe, feel the sun on your skin, the air on face, the ground underneath you.
In that sweet moment of pause, I bet you’ll hear the soft song of your direction
unmistakably calling out your name.
Listen to the Leo horoscope for Taurus Season here
VIRGO
Arriving in the depth of your purpose
requires skillful discernment and active awareness.
Edgy agitation or catty competition are clues that you are misaligned.
What are the best uses for your energy right now?
You’ll know you’ve found them when you feel alert, curious and friendly.
Listen to the Virgo horoscope for Taurus Season here
LIBRA
Take a big risk.
Step across a line, outside a box.
Piss someone off. Say something surprising. Reveal a secret.
Notice the strategies you employ to keep the peace or keep up with appearances.
Get curious about whether those strategies are anything you want to hold onto.
There actually might be more intimacy and trust available on the other side.
Listen to the Libra horoscope for Taurus Season here
SCORPIO
It may be useful now to consider what you keep private and why.
If your reasoning is for another person’s “benefit” I urge you to reconsider.
Give your relationships the respect they deserve.
Which might mean revealing an uncomfortable truth.
Notice controlling tendencies in your thoughts and mind.
Seek liberation.
Listen to the Scorpio horoscope for Taurus Season here
SAGITTARIUS
Be as present as you can possibly be.
Discern which opportunities to take by slowing down and breathing with them.
Remember, what is essential has to do with essence.
What sustains and nourishes you is simple.
Anything else is beside the point.
Listen to the Sagittarius horoscope for Taurus Season here
CAPRICORN
Keep an eye out for a good opportunity.
There is much more to this that you haven’t even yet considered.
Keep a sense of humor and a sense of magic.
You can’t possibly know what is going to happen.
Listen to the Capricorn horoscope for Taurus Season here
AQUARIUS
They say that chaos is the mother of invention,
and that life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.
They say that destiny finds you when you’re least expecting it,
and a watched pot will never boil.
Remember, no one planned any of the great inventions.
They all happened by mistake and serendipity.
Listen to the Aquarius horoscope for Taurus Season here
PISCES
There’s no sense in trying to figure it out.
So just come back to your senses.
Smell a flower, see a sight, listen, touch, taste, attune.
Listen to the Pisces horoscope for Taurus Season here