NEW MOON IN TAURUS
By: Michael Zizis
Tags: Astrology, Cycles Of Life, New Moon, Seasons

N EW MOON IN TAURUS

April 22, 2020

Essay by Mike Zizis

The new moon in 3 degrees Taurus begins tonight at about 10:26 pm EDT.

This moon for me in heart and mind is a fortunate new moon. Why? Some of the keywords for Taurus are stabilization {and stable}, grounded, fertile, and revolution. That last word is quite important here in the northern portion of the northern hemisphere. It has been a long cold lonely winter. There are the last vestiges of frost on the other side of my sunny back door. This isolation and INsulation have taken their toll on my patience. How am I going to support my local business if I can’t exchange money for goods?

For self-employed people like me, shopping, banking, browsing etc. is a good way to meet people and exchange some friendly acknowledgement. Hi there — nice to see you — how is everything?

Coming to our senses is a good meditation for this new moon.

Leaving the monkey mind is best done thru the five earthly senses.

These are the blessings of Taurus:

Smell: what are my favourite aromas?

Sight: What colours are most pleasing?

Taste: What brings joy to the palette?

Hearing: What music takes me away?

Touch: What fabric or dough or massage brings joy? Warming my hands by a fire? Holding a hot mug of tea or coffee?

This time of the year in the northern hemisphere is also the time when the YANG or SUNNY portion of the year is rising. In the fall it is a YIN or LUNAR cycle here. The sunlight is receding; a natural cycle.

Sunlit Taurus is also a fixed power sign. The four fixed signs in order are Taurus {earth}, Leo {fire}, Scorpio {water}, and Aquarius {air}. These signs on the calendar represent the portion of the season when the particular sign is at its strongest steady expression.

This yang/male part of the yearly cycle compliments yin/female Taurus beautifully. Vigorous shoots push rocks and soil and pebbles aside to take their greening place under a strengthening sun. Taurus is one of two signs ruled by Venus; the other at the Yin light-decaying part of the year is Libra. Libra being a cardinal sign reveals the darkening of the light, harvest, and the promise of spring rising again, in time.

Venus and Taurus are centered on beauty, fertility, values, relationship with finances, material possessions, and pleasures, luxury, and hygiene. This is the earthy part of Venus. Venus wants no end to luxury. So it’s no surprise that Trump’s wife Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970 is a Taurus. Auto manufacturer Ford brought out the Ford Taurus from 1985 to 2019 to dramatically improve the quality of its passenger vehicles.

What is surprising is that 8 of the 12 male executives at Ford discovered at an earlier meeting that they were married to Taurus women. So the easy part was naming the new vehicle.

In 1989 my wife at the time a stunning Taurus beauty, {born with six planets in Taurus} was deprived of her car in January when while it was parked someone drove straight into it. It was a wreck. She was very unhappy about being deprived of her autonomy and mobility. I had a part time job teaching and a full time job as an astrologer. Money was hard to come by then.

I was determined to get her a new car. To this day I don’t know why I drove about 40 miles north to a big Ford dealership. I saw a white Ford Taurus in the front display showroom. A nice man greeted me at the door.

“Hi my name is Mike I have a part time job and am $20,000 dollars in debt. I want a Taurus for my wife who is a Taurus.

He said — “Hi my name is Jim. I am a Taurus, My wife is a Taurus, and I will get you that Ford Taurus!”

Done deal. Miracle.

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The horns of the Taurus bull pierce the air like the thorns on a beautiful rose pierce the skin. Volcanism, the erupting earth is also associated with Taurus. Also the volcanism of revolutions. Even tho Taurus begins in the late third week of April, houseplants will die of frost here in this part of Canada if put outside before May 24th.

The bull was celebrated and even worshipped in the age of Taurus.

From: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=the+age+of+Taurus

The Age of Taurus spans approximately the period between 4400 and 2200 BC. It is the age defined by the Sun being in the constellation of Taurus on the spring equinox. … The Element associated with Taurus is Earth, and as such, Taurus has a solid, practical, down-to-Earth, and sensual tone. It has an instinctive awareness, so it knows its place in the natural flow of things and it prefers the natural gut feeling over intellectual interpretation. It is hard-working, structured, steady and persistent, and at the same time it appreciates beauty.

One of the finest examples of a Taurian civilization is Ancient Egypt, from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt (3100 BC). In the late Taurian period, during the Old Kingdom (about 2700–2200 BC), Egypt erected some of the grandest architectural wonders of the ancient world and of all times, such as the Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx. The three great pillars of human life on the Earth — civilizational order, religion, and spiritual tradition were all alive.

Pharaoh Menkaura, accompanied by the goddess Bat on his right and the representation of the town Hu (in which Bat was worshipped) on his left.

They were aligned with each other, and they were feeding each other. They were all unified by the role of the Pharaoh, which was the ruler and the representative of a higher world on the Earth. The hierarchy was clear. Everybody knew their place in relation to each other. Religiously, the Age of Taurus in Egypt coincides with the worship of Apis, the bull-deity, the most important of all sacred animals in Egypt, said to be instituted during the Second Dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. Apis was originally the Herald of Ptah, the chief god in the area around Memphis, Egypt’s capital during this period. As a manifestation of Ptah, Apis also was considered to be a symbol of the pharaoh, embodying the qualities of kingship. The Egyptian goddess Bat (later Hathor) was commonly depicted as a cow goddess with head horns.

This new moon in Taurus is as good time to breathe deeply, and begin again. With the Venus light of this new moon, we can put away so much justified discouragement. New moons are about creating new gardens in the mind and heart, especially this new moon.

From: https://www.moonomens.com/new-moon-in-taurus-during-444-portal/

New Moon in Taurus: Setting Our Sails

The New Moon in Taurus occurs when the Sun and the Moon come together in the sign of Taurus. The Moon represents our feelings, emotions or subconscious whereas the sun brings in the energy of our conscious awareness and focus. We are the ships setting our sails and the wind is right there willing to take us on our journey.

Setting the sails is our responsibility. It’s our job to set up the boat in order for the force of nature to give us the wind. We are part of a dance of creation between our individual choices and a natural force of life we cannot control.

In a sense, it’s like our breath. When we are well and healthy, our breath is an automatic function. If we’ve ever paused for a moment to really feel the sensation of our breath we know the peace and serenity that it can bring. This is an example of aligning our conscious awareness with the subconscious force of life.

Take Time to Notice

The New Moon in Taurus is a time to stop and notice the breath. Take time to notice that as humans, we are a sweet spot between Heaven and Earth. We have physical bodies that ground us here on Earth, and we have a spirit that moves through us. This is a big deal. This is powerful.

We Are the Seeds

Let’s imagine that Earth is a garden and each person is a seed. We are born into this garden and we grow in all sorts of ways. Some of us will become trees, and remain on a steady track for the entirety of our lives.

While others perhaps are dandelions that recycle and regrow each season. Maybe we are a rose that blossoms brilliantly and then takes time to gently fall away. We are all unique plants in this garden of Gaia.

Coming Back to Gaia

“In Greek mythology, Gaia, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess.” (wikipedia)

The New Moon in Taurus is inviting us to come back to Gaia. To focus on our choices and ask ourselves if they are nourishing our primal Mother Earth Goddess. Even though the Earth may appear to be outside of us, what if she’s an extension of ourselves?

For example, we know that a plant will be impacted by the soil it grows from. If we are the plants, growing in the garden that is Gaia, then her health affects us. How we treat the planet, or where we turn a blind eye to what is occurring, affects our health and capacity to grow.