TRANSCRIPT Ep. 233 | Taurus New Moon: Holding the Bag! (Might 6, 2024)

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Hey Invisible Pal, April right here, and the date at the moment is Might 6, 2024. Welcome to Episode 233 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, the Taurus New Moon and the Solar’s elegant sextile to Saturn are the main astrological information, and I reply a listener query in regards to the progressed lunar phases.

Taurus New Moon (Might 7, 2024, 8:22 pm PDT)

The week begins with the Moon Report and the Taurus New Moon on Might seventh at 8:22 pm Pacific Time. It’s at 18 º 2’ Taurus, on the Sabian image, 19 Taurus, A newly shaped continent. Every year, the Taurus New Moon is efficient for formulating intentions or rituals round cash, incomes energy, possessions, values, and safety.

If for any motive you’re feeling insecure, significantly within the space of life symbolized by the home that Taurus falls in your chart, that is the New Moon annually to try why and to judge the methods that you could make your self really feel safer. This will must do with the way you’re incomes or managing your cash, whether or not bodily possessions can actually deal with emotional deficits, and, whether or not your bodily house feels protected and properly cared for.

This New Moon level may be very near Uranus and Jupiter, which got here collectively in a conjunction on April twentieth. So, this New Moon resonates to some extent with a number of the issues that we skilled at that conjunction. If the purpose of the conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, which was 21º 49 ‘ Taurus – if that intently aspected one thing in your delivery chart, you might simply now be starting to know what all of it meant.

So there may be large vitality on this New Moon chart, that large vitality of Jupiter and Uranus. And it takes large vitality to push up a newly shaped continent, just like the one we see within the Sabian image for this New Moon. The Solar and Moon on this beautiful sextile side of Saturn provides the chance to create a brand new platform for being on the earth; to assist us use a few of this very thrilling Jupiter-Uranus symbolism. For those who’ve been needing to do some large house repairs, if you wish to improve your earnings by making use of for a elevate or a brand new job, whether or not there’s an enormous buy you’ve been saving up for, that is an thrilling New Moon to get happening these initiatives.

Lunar Section Household Cycle

This New Moon initiates a lunar section household cycle that may proceed over the subsequent 36 months. What’s initiated at this New Moon is probably not precisely what we hope or suppose that it could be. We’ve explicit concepts about every signal of the zodiac and what it would characterize to us. However typically the issues that emerge on the New Moon defy our predictions, however on the similar time, in hindsight, they appear applicable.

What I recommend individuals do at every New Moon is simply make a random listing of what’s vital in your life proper now, at the moment, not essentially what you’re aiming for, what you are attempting to formulate for the longer term, however what is occurring at the moment, to your self, to the individuals closest to you, and even when it looks like one thing that’s not that vital, make an observation of it. As a result of you will notice how this little kernel, this little seed, can typically develop over the three years of the lunar section household cycle.

The First Quarter section on this lunar section household cycle comes on February fifth, 2025, with the Moon at 16º 46‘ Taurus. And that’s the time when some form of motion occurs, some form of motion strikes this New Moon’s goals additional alongside. Once more, this doesn’t even essentially occur consciously, however once we look again over the whole household cycle, we will typically see that that’s the purpose the place issues bought transferring.

Then, the Full Moon on this cycle. It’s on November fifth, 2025, at 13º 22’ Taurus, and that’s typically when it turns into very clear what really was occurring at this month’s New Moon.

The Final Quarter on this cycle comes on August fifth, 2026. It falls at 13º 40’ Taurus, and that’s usually a second the place we have now another alternative to behave, and often, it’s to assist us body, or deliver to conclusion, the matter that was begun at this New Moon.

I’m loving these lunar section household cycles, and I’m excited when individuals write and inform me that they’re taking part in round with them, and they’re seeing the continuity over the three-year interval. I hope that you’ll experiment with this as properly.

Void-of-Course Moon Intervals

Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon durations for this week. The Moon is Void-of-Course after it makes the ultimate main side in its signal, for the time period till it strikes into the subsequent signal. And this period of time varies. So typically we have now very, very quick Void-of-Course Moon durations. Final week we had one which was lower than a minute in size! And typically we’ll get them which are 19 hours. However the best way to work with Void-of-Course Moon durations is to look at our habits and to determine if we’re in a rut, if we’re in habits that aren’t actually getting us the place we need to go, and the way we will provoke new and wholesome habits.

The primary Void-of-Course interval for this week begins on Might eighth when the Moon in Taurus sextiles Neptune in Pisces at 2:55 pm Pacific Time. It’s then Void-of-Course for about an hour and a half, after which enters Gemini at 4:20 pm. Sextile facets deliver a chance, so Void-of-Course Moon durations that start with the Moon in sextile to a different planet does give us an invite.

This one is about getting our day by day affairs so as. The Moon all the time represents the day by day routine. And when it’s in Taurus, there may be an impulse to get the sensible, on a regular basis issues so as. And if we do this, then we may have the time to essentially indulge within the work of Neptune, leisure, daydreaming, having fun with music, fiction, films, pampering ourselves. When you have all the things taken care of along with your work, your duties to others, operating errands, paying payments, all of that, then you possibly can actually loosen up and revel in Neptune’s realm with a transparent conscience.

And on Might tenth, the Moon in Gemini squares Neptune at 6:49 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for about 9 and a half hours after which enters Most cancers at 8:13 pm. Void-of-Course Moons that start in a sq. side to a different planet characterize a battle that must be, not essentially resolved, however actually addressed. And on this case, it’s the battle between the Moon in Gemini, which may be too busy to discover the quieter world of the thoughts and soul which are represented by Neptune.

It is a time to withstand the urge to suppose your emotions as a substitute of feeling them. And because the Moon is in Gemini, and that’s an indication that actually loves to put in writing and specific itself, I might recommend doing a little journaling that will get to the guts of what’s actually happening within you. The Moon, when it’s in air indicators, Gemini, Libra, or Aquarius, doesn’t all the time need to have deep heart-to-heart talks with one other particular person; however actually, you possibly can share your emotions on a clean web page after which it’s solely your self that’s it and getting an opportunity to consider it.

Solar sextile Saturn (Might 6, 2024, 10:42 pm PDT)

The week’s solely main side is on Might sixth at 10:42 pm Pacific Time when the Solar in Taurus makes a sextile to Saturn in Pisces. The cycle of the Solar and Saturn focuses on growing our self-discipline and making us the strongest and most accountable model of ourselves. In the event that they meet in a conjunction, a sq., or an opposition, we get a problem to beat and if we overcome it, we will really feel stronger. Flowing facets like this one, the sextile, provide alternatives to get pleasure from a sense of higher self-respect and authority and the sense of being the writer of your individual life.

That is the opening sextile within the cycle that started on February twenty eighth, 2024, when the Solar got here collectively in a conjunction with Saturn in Pisces. I believe that conjunction might have left a variety of us feeling that we actually wanted to get our act collectively, but it surely was actually hazy to determine easy methods to strategy doing that.

However now the Solar is in Taurus, and that symbolizes having discovered some stability over the past couple of months. In order that now we have now this chance to pursue goals that will appear impractical, as a result of that’s the best way of something in Pisces, even when it’s Saturn, however have the prospect to succeed if we plan rigorously and sensibly.

The Sabian image for the Solar on the sextile is, A girl holding a bag out of a window. And I all the time think about she’s emptying trash or mud from a vacuum. She’s eliminating particles. And as soon as we do this, we will transfer ahead much more calmly. The image for Saturn is A huge tent and I think about a circus tent or a spiritual revival tent.

Both one is an area for performing one thing that may not directly appear magical or transcendent. So that is the sextile that invitations us to look again to late February of this 12 months at that Solar-Saturn conjunction and take into consideration what we might have been dreaming of. What our fondest hopes might need been at the moment – and now we have now a chance to start to make them actual. It gained’t occur in a single day, and this whole cycle takes a couple of 12 months to finish. However we do have the prospect to make a starting as a result of the Solar in Taurus supplies us with the soundness to have a robust platform to plan from.

Listener Query: Progressed Lunar Phases

On this week’s listener query, listener Bethany asks, “Hello April, I ponder in case you would speak in regards to the lunar phases within the progressed chart. I simply entered my progressed New Moon section and I simply don’t really feel as energetic and optimistic as I’d hoped I might.”

Nicely, Bethany, thanks for that query. Secondary progressions are a method which are actually considered one of my favorites as a result of they actually reveal what’s happening on the within. And transits – which I discuss each week on the podcast, in fact – are likely to characterize the outer forces which are coming at us, however the secondary progressed chart provides us some perception into how we’re processing that on an inner stage.

First, for people who find themselves not accustomed to secondary progressions, I’ll simply clarify them very merely. They’re primarily based on the motion of the transiting planets within the days after your delivery. However every day after your delivery represents a 12 months of your life. So if we regarded within the ephemeris and we began at your birthday, after which we have a look at the subsequent day within the ephemeris, the location of the planets on that day are the secondary progressed placements, roughly, in your first birthday. They usually actually describe one thing about your first 12 months of life.

Now, why this must be the case? I don’t know. I’ve by no means heard anybody actually clarify why it does work, however I discover it a extremely insightful system.

Within the progressed chart, the planet that reveals by far essentially the most motion is the Moon. As a result of in case you simply have a look at an ephemeris and also you look from in the future to the subsequent, on most days, not a variety of issues are altering in a short time, besides the Moon, as a result of the Moon strikes between 11 and 13 º every day, whereas the Solar strikes rather less than one diploma and Venus rather less than one diploma and so forth.

For that motive, I contemplate this a really lunar system. The transiting lunar cycle takes about 29.5 days to finish. And which means the progressed lunar cycle takes 29.5 years. Which occurs to additionally mimic the cycle of transiting Saturn, which takes 29 years. I like this type of synastry between the Moon representing essentially the most intimate, day-to-day sides of our private growth, versus Saturn, which represents the boundaries of the skin world. So this progressed lunar cycle repeats about each 29 years, and never too removed from the transiting Saturn return

The progressed lunar section is in fact, the connection between the progressed Solar, which strikes a couple of diploma per 12 months, and the progressed Moon, which strikes a level per 30 days, and slowly they unfold in a full lunar cycle within the secondary progressed chart.

Every of those progressed phases lasts about three and a half years. You get a progressed lunar return – which means, the Progressed Moon comes again to the natal place – each 27 years, and also you get a Progressed Lunar Section return about each 29 and a half years. This implies the lunar section at your delivery, the precise angle between the Solar and Moon, repeats each 29.5 years. For those who have been born on the Crescent Section, for instance, you’d have a progressed crescent section round age 29.5.

The progressed New Moon occurs when the Progressed Solar and the Progressed Moon are on the similar diploma of the identical signal. I’ve buddy who simply entered her Progressed New Moon Section a couple of 12 months in the past, and it hasn’t been a extremely great time for her. She has sustained some loss. She misplaced some relations. She misplaced her canine. It’s like her complete life is form of getting emptied out. And after three and a half years of the balsamic section, which precedes this, she was actually enthusiastic about this New Moon, and it simply isn’t wanting the best way she hoped it could look.

And once I considered it, that is smart, as a result of the identical is true with the transiting New Moon. We are able to get very enthusiastic about this new starting, but it surely’s really a really darkish time, and it’s a bit little bit of a tough time, it’s a bit little bit of a, I might say, a chilly time. As a lot as we really feel the thrill that perhaps one thing new can start, there’s additionally sitting first with the vacancy. Which, in case you’ve completed the balsamic lunar section accurately, you’ve emptied all the things out so that you could have a brand new starting on the progressed New Moon.

However that doesn’t occur straight away. What occurs first is the vacancy. After which ultimately, as you’re getting a bit bit additional on on this progressed section and getting nearer to the crescent section, you may start to see the sunshine a bit bit, some form of inspiration of the brand new factor that’s coming.

However initially, the progressed New Moon can really feel form of exhausting. And it’s as Bethany mentioned in her electronic mail, she simply doesn’t really feel fairly as energetic and optimistic as she had hoped she would. And I discover that on the transiting New Moon as properly. However the level with the New Moon is to expertise the vacancy of being in a brand new place symbolically and to simply preserve transferring ahead till the sunshine returns once more.

I’ll cowl the opposite seven phases considerably shortly, as a result of actually, I needed to handle Bethany’s query in regards to the New Moon, but it surely’s enjoyable to have a look at the entire cycle and see what that’s displaying us.

On the Crescent Moon, about three and a half years after the progressed New Moon, there’s a shift in focus. And what occurs is we begin to actually start to see gentle. In a symbolic sense, as a result of in case you go outdoors on the night time of a crescent Moon, you’ll see that stunning little crescent up there after many nights of the sky being darkish. So it represents an thrilling image to form of fixate on, and that’s the vitality of the Crescent Moon, to seek out function and focus and dedication. And it begins with noticing or being caught by one thing in your life that then begins to fascinate you.

The Crescent Moon is adopted by the progressed First Quarter Moon, and as I say about this one in every week’s podcast once I speak in regards to the lunar section household, we all know that the First Quarter and the Final Quarter are instances of motion. And the First Quarter on this progressed lunar cycle represents the time of motion, and we nonetheless don’t know all the things, we don’t know precisely the place we’re headed or how issues are going to end up, however we act on religion, and we act on one thing that fascinated us at that crescent Moon.

After the First Quarter Moon, there may be the waxing gibbous section. That’s when the Moon appears to be like virtually full, but it surely isn’t, and we actually must bear that in thoughts, that though we might really feel actually like we all know precisely what we’re doing, a few of our concepts on the waxing gibbous can find yourself a bit bit half baked. So it is a three-and-a-half-year section within the secondary progressions, and what we will study from it’s to maintain up our momentum, to detach from the must be good, and to apply devotion and repair and resilience.

Then comes the progressed Full Moon. This could be a actually vital section within the secondary cycle for relationship. And it’s when the progressed Solar and the progressed Moon are reverse one another, similar diploma, reverse indicators. It’s a very illuminating section. It’s once we’re to take an trustworthy have a look at ourselves and the place we’re, to ask for suggestions from the individuals we love, from the individuals we work with. And what we will study throughout this section is to study to behold the bounty of our lives, to understand what we have now, to attach with different individuals and to be absolutely current.

Following the Full Moon is three and a half years of the waning Gibbous cycle, which we additionally name the Disseminating Moon in astrology. That is the time for sharing our experiences and our tales to show different individuals to put in writing letters. This could be a cycle once you journey quite a bit. And it’s an amazing cycle in case you’re a author or any form of storyteller, particularly.

The Final Quarter Moon follows the Disseminating Moon and that is the opposite motion time within the progressed lunar cycle, however this time we’re appearing primarily based on previous expertise and what we have already got seen and what we all know.

The Final Quarter Moon’s a bit bit robust as a result of we can also look again and perhaps have regrets about what we didn’t do or what we haven’t completed fairly the best way we had wished. However at this progressed section, it’s a extremely wonderful time to refine your work to date. If to date on this cycle you’ve gotten completed any form of work, particularly inventive work, Get all of it organized, make your refinements to it, whereas nonetheless figuring out that you could’t simply throw all of it out and begin over. That’s for the subsequent New Moon cycle. What you’re doing now could be doing the perfect with what you’ve completed. And it’s a time of adjusting angle and perspective as a result of that’s one factor you actually can change.

After which, that’s adopted by the balsamic or waning crescent cycle. That’s three and a half years of releasing and letting go, disengaging from the cycle that you just’ve been in, in order that on the subsequent progressed New Moon, you might be at that quiet, empty place, and also you’re prepared to begin a whole new 29-year journey.

Bethany, I hope that helps, and I hope it provides you coronary heart a bit bit about this New Moon section, which can really feel a bit disappointing to you proper now. However know that in case you’re feeling rather less energetic, rather less optimistic, you’re in all probability precisely the place you have to be, the place the New Moon is worried.

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