Today’s New Moon in Taurus activates the Saturn/Uranus square — a key planetary aspect for this year and the next.
We are humans remembering how to touch the earth. We are humans remembering we are earth.
The new moon in Taurus helps us plant new seeds for how we live on this planet. It helps us listen to our more-than-human relatives for how we get out of this human crisis — in a way that benefits all beings.
A Taurus new moon is always extra magnetic. Extra able to pull together resources to build something lasting. Take a pause and summon your magic (today or tomorrow — we’re still in the new moon phase). Plant literal or figurative seeds. Sing to the trees. Pray into the soil. Love up on the nature that is your body.
Every new moon sets the tone for the month ahead.
This one is conjunct Uranus, bringing insight and revelation. The first spark that will light a big change. Ideas that help free our minds. But this month is about planting seeds, not yet seeing the fruits of the labor. The new moon and Uranus right now are squared by Saturn. Saturn can bring the blues. If you feel heavy with duty (and doodie feelings) this month, know that it’s not just you. Know that you can plant a seed which will burst forth, even if only in the dark. You will see it sprout before long.
The square between Saturn-in-Aquarius and Uranus-in-Taurus is one of the main influences this year and next. Right now, Saturn is getting close to to Uranus, but in May it will go retrograde (seem to move backwards in the sky). In 2021, when Saturn is back in Aquarius, it will re-approach Uranus. Saturn is conservative and traditional; Uranus is radical and liberatory. These two energies are in stiff tension right now — and reach a crescendo in 2021 when the square becomes exact.
That means the seeds we plant now may not grow visibly yet, but they will next year. The cosmos call upon us to create new social relations that are based in deep unity and humanity (that’s Saturn in Aquarius). And to do it in a way that honors all of life here on earth, not just humans (that’s Uranus in Taurus). One note of caution: the environmental “solutions” we begin to see may be tech-heavy. Especially as the quarantine lifestyle is speeding up our technological dependence. That’s something we’ll have to watch out for.
Figuring this out may not feel easy, because that’s what a square is: challenging. We’ll need to slow down and stay with what’s hard. Dig into presence to find deep answers. Challenges are how we rise. The seeds we plant this spring will surely rise out of the dirt and bloom.
