The stillness that moves the earth.
New Moon in Taurus, April 27th, 2025
The earth is a bull whose sturdiness allows us to stand, whose spaciousness gives us room to move, whose silence allows us speech. Infused with the power of sun, she yields life—the complexity of life that is a system, a system that becomes its own consciousness. We are drawn into our roles, even we who think we are her masters must obey her. Our bodies require the same food, water, and shelter they have needed for millennia.
The lunar bull here is accompanied in her home by Uranus, the spirit who inspires us to bend, break, ignore, or renegotiate those rules. In Taurus, Uranus has brought forth technologies, ideologies, and cultural forms that seek to upend decades of what was established in terms of work, money, food, and health. The promise of AI and all its grandiose dreams of radically accelerating innovation also throws communities into upheaval when more and more opportunities for human work disappear. Yet what isn’t disappearing is the expectation that we do work for money, and need that money to access the food, shelter, and water that we require. There is a desperation in this tension, both the desire to seed new growth in changing soil where we cannot be sure what will grow, when we know our very lives are at stake.
That throws tension back to Pluto in Aquarius, the trembling terror of revolution. Aquarius moves in parallel like two lightning bolts that initiate and electrify, and Pluto adds a volcanic intensity to their force. One lightning bolt says everything must change now, or else we will be annihilated. The other lightning bolt says we must fix everything into place, or else we will be annihilated. Pluto in Aquarius is having inner conflict: do we radically reshape society to address these changing pressures, or do we radically destroy the pressures so that society can return to an older shape that we imagine worked much better? Either way forward is terrifying, and more terrifying to do nothing.
That conflict is even more highly charged with Mars in Leo forming an exact opposition, challenging the revolutionary or reactionary impulse with a secret egotism, a strong need to put ourselves first, to be the enlightened individual rather than the mob. The question is, are these revolutionary impulses truly grounded in thoughtful care for the wellbeing of the whole, or are they things said for clout by people who want to make a name for themselves? What secret forces are stirring terror? But does it matter, if the terror is real?
In Taurus, this moon is under Venus’s rulership, and she is preparing to exit the Saturn-Venus-North Node blending that was present for much of the past lunar cycle, soon to kiss Neptune in Aries. This Venus has re-emerged from her retrograde journey, gathered discipline and a mandate to move forward with her renewed sense of what matters, what is worthy of her time and care, and is about to exchange the sober rigidity of Saturn with the dissociative, mystic, intoxicated influence of Neptune.
This lunar cycle will give us a window into the Neptune-Saturn conjunction coming in 2026, with Venus showing us what is at stake and what will be in tension. It’s like we think we know exactly what matters now, what our dreams are, and what needs to be done to realize those dreams. And then we encounter this sexy, mystic warrior who wants us to fight for his dreams. And it’s quite an intoxicating vision, a sense that we could abandon our personal identities and merge with something greater—a mob, a cause, a national identity. Neptune in Aries seems like a time of warrior monks, mystic warriors, psychonauts, and space pioneers. The question to ask this cycle is, is this temptation a reorienting toward the future—to let go of what I thought mattered as recently as last week and let myself blend with this greater battle? Or is this temptation an illusion, taking me off my path and using me for some cause that is more mist than soil?
These questions are not yet arrived, but we may feel them now in this moment of stillness, of rooting in the earth. Plant yourself where you are today. Sew the seeds you know to sew. Make your plans according to the trends of the moment and the calling of your heart, the firmness of your visions and longings. All of it might be swept away soon, but that is the nature of life regardless. More importantly, what is planted and firmly rooted stands a better chance in the summer to come than what we hesitate to do and plant too late.