WHICH IS MORE fortunate: mindless abundance or revelatory loss? A bloated bank account or throwing bread over our shoulder as we make our way through a flock of pigeons? These are the themes of May, a month that challenges us to stand- come Hell or high water- for our true Taurus values.
The month unfolds in the shadow of two eclipses: a Solar eclipse in Taurus on the last day of April and a world-rocking Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio on May 16th. In addition, the entire month is impacted by Mercury retrograde in Gemini (May 10th- June 3rd). Together, this “Eclipse-o-grade” prods us to dismantle stagnation and make whatever preparations are necessary to strike out into new life in June when Mercury is direct.
Does something in your life feeling stale, heavy, expired? With eight planets in their final degrees, things are winding up and completing. Eclipse-o-grade transitions can be rocky, but it’s all good if it helps us to become good.
This dismantling process is not mental; it’s visceral. Outgrown attachments must be honestly felt before they can be fully released. The good news: this breakdown of the old life is coupled with a wave of optimism and trust in a brighter future due, to the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Pisces forming favorable angles to both eclipses.
Is a way of working or being in relationship wanting to die and be reborn? Great time to piggyback the May 10th movement of Jupiter into Aries, thrusting us into a new 12 year cycle of risk-taking fire.
Awakened Taurus knows that the secret to graceful change is flowing with the signs and symbols of each moment. Why have faith in the invisible, says Taurus, when you can sense God guiding in the play of form?
Time to practice seeing life through the eyes of awakened Taurus:
The oracle of the earth is talking to my body. I am on an animal sensing adventure and “coincidence” is the only sacrilege.
The Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio on May 16th
Once a year, the moon turns into a blazing, axe-to-the-forehead ray of truth. An eclipsed Scorpio moon is wildly shamanic and uncomfortably confrontational, more suited to ceremony than sinful indulgence.
A vulnerable time unlike any other, the days before, during and after this eclipse are best spent in retreat or “confessing and undressing” with souls you’ve already built trust with.
Scorpio corresponds to the hours of 8-10 PM. Why? Because Scorpio wants to be “awake in the dark.” Yes, a later time in the night would, perhaps, evoke a more forbidden (but sleep-fuzzy) aspect of our psyche. This is less interesting to the Scorpion part of us because it savors lucid confrontation of the forbidden. It wants those shadowy crevices lit up and fully confessed before night makes the brain go soft.
In its eclipsed state, the death and rebirth potential of the Scorpio Moon is dramatically intensified. Painful stories and festering wounds may grow momentarily more acute, then fade into a fantastical day dream so free of “self and other” that loyalty and abandonment appear laughably surreal.
So how about it? Are you up for some psychic surgery from Dr. Luna? Here’s some Scorpio Moon advice from Rupert Spira,
The test of whether we’re really welcoming our feelings is: Can I live with this feeling forever?’ If the answer is no, then we’re welcoming our feelings in order to get rid of them and that’s just more agenda for the separate self.
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