Taurus New Moon Report / May 5 by Barbara Hand Clow

Taurus New Moon: May 5, 2008

During the New Moon in Taurus, it is time to ground and assess your personal goals. What are your core values? What makes your heart sing? This evaluation will be exceptionally natural during this New Moon: Pluto is in Capricorn trining Saturn in Virgo trining Venus in Taurus-in other words, a beautiful grand trine in the element of earth. Neptune in Aquarius exactly conjuncts the lunar North Node, an extremely potent combination that announces, "Manifest your spiritual desires!" Actions will flow easily and harmonically. This combination of practicality and spiritual wisdom encourages you to shift into wise and advanced levels of consciousness. Life is easier that way, the real secret. If you work on your own material issues with the greater good in mind during this lunation, you will be greatly rewarded. There is great potential during this lunation for a significant collective knowing, a return to caring and generosity among people. This shift will not be visible in the media, the great crafty modern lie, so make sure you are experiencing the unfolding story in your personal life.

This New Moon is very inspiring, a high-level drama that began during the previous Full Moon. You may remember that I called the previous New Moon (Aries), the "Chaos New Moon" because it indicated that a bifurcation, a splitting, would occur during the month. We can test this interpretation by observing what happening during the April 20 Full Moon, so let's look back. The evening of this Full Moon, I found myself taken over by the most powerful Earth being I have ever encountered. She just ripped through my body and mind and screamed out for human accountability with Nature. The next day I was still shaking, and then I noticed that various aspects of the world around me seemed to be really changing. A lot of my contacts said they felt just plain crazy. They could feel connected with many dimensions, yet dysfunctional systems were crumbling around them. They found it easier to walk in many worlds while feeling very present in the moment. Then, suddenly they'd feel vacant and lost as if they'd just walked through a door without noticing it was there. The April Full Moon was in 1 Scorpio, and the May Full Moon will be in 29 Scorpio. Therefore, the grounding/regeneration powers of Taurus/Scorpio are doubled, which suggests more bifurcation.

Two Taurus/Scorpio Full Moons in 2008 forces us to ground and purify our material reality. This will push us to be very honest about whether we are living the way we really want to live. You may have found yourself cruelly assessing your life and disciplining yourself to change much more than usual. These two Full Moons in earth and water are beautifully facilitated by Pluto's long-term trine to Saturn during this spring and summer, which makes 'a great cleansing' feel very natural. Specifically, during the first Scorpio Full Moon in April, the Sun in Taurus formed a grand trine to Saturn trine Pluto, while the Full Moon in Scorpio formed the top of a kite to the grand trine. Powerful earth energy just shot through my body, and it felt like it was flowing through the dimensions and shifting the DNA of all the species on the planet. Now, during the Taurus New Moon, Venus in Taurus forms a grand trine-Venus trine Saturn trine Pluto-which activates feminine harmony and beauty amidst the potent and effective systems processing this spring.

Jupiter in Capricorn widely trines the New Moon in Taurus, thus practicality and wisdom will come to our aid in finances. We are in the middle of a long-term systemic financial cleanout, and this lunation is a great time to make adjustments in light of it. Jupiter and Saturn are involved in an interesting earthy dance right now, so let's look at it: Jupiter will retrograde May 9 at 22 Capricorn, and it will move all the way back to 12 Capricorn, when it will go direct on September 7. Capricorn rules Saturn, and so this Jupiter retrograde says: use Saturn to clean up your act! You might as well learn this because Pluto in Capricorn until 2024 is going to transform anything that is not useful to the collective and Nature. For example, I welcome gas costing more than $4 if that is what it will take to get affluent countries to conserve. Saturn's effectiveness is blossoming into this New Moon because Saturn on May 2 went direct at 2 Virgo. Now, we are really going to respect the material world with all that it can give and take away-the fabled cleansing. So, if gas does go up to $4 and more, then recreational driving will go down, while necessary driving will continue. People who need gas to get to work will be enraged by gas-hogging off-the-road vehicles, Hummers, and RVs. People will demand decent public transportation, will car-pool more, and will move closer to their jobs.

Mysterious and evocative Neptune in Aquarius sits right on the lunar North Node, which creates a massive and subtle opening to all the hidden dimensions. Chiron is close to the North Node/Neptune, which means we sense that the freedom to travel in these worlds can heal. Chiron will sit on the North Node during late May through October, which will cause the people to want freedom more and more. Our cells will pick up these nuances with Uranus in Pisces sextiling Jupiter in Capricorn; we will feel that freedom is a spiritual choice. Neptune and Uranus in mutual reception (in each other's signs-Neptune in Aquarius since 1998 and Uranus in Pisces since 2004) have been opening the nine dimensions and awakening compassion in our hearts. This New Moon reveals many practical ways to bring through these forces to free our planet and our selves. These are the times etched in our planet's records that try human souls. During the last phase of the Mayan Calendar, Uranus and Neptune's mutual reception (as well as Pluto on the Galactic Center moving on to the cardinal angles) represent the archetypal gods.

We need a more concrete sense of just what might be going on during these amazing days, and Mars has been a key actor during the last year. If you have been following this website, you will know that due to a winter retrograde, Mars, the god of war, has been heavily influencing Cancer for more than six months. Mars normally transits a given sign of the Zodiac for about two months. The 1776 founding chart of the USA (Sibley) has Mars in Gemini, and then Venus, Jupiter, Sun, and Mercury in Cancer. The long Mars transit has been heavily influencing these planets in the USA chart. Mars went into Cancer September 2007 and moved to 12 Cancer in mid-November, and then retrograded. 12 Cancer is the placement of the USA and George W. Bush Sun signs, and Bush's popularity and the world's respect for the USA has been plummeting because Mars possesses him. Mars moved back into Gemini and came close to the USA Mars where it went direct in late January 2008, when anti-war fervor and American aggression in the world were increasing. Again, Mars in 12 Cancer crossed the USA/Bush Suns in early April 2008, and the Bush/ Petraeus "surge" fell apart. Iraq became violent again and the American efforts in Afghanistan deteriorated, while the USA threatened Iran. I am detailing this for you one last time here because Mars has just passed the USA Mercury, and 71% of Americans disapprove of Bush's presidency! Mars goes into Leo on May 9 exactly when Jupiter retrogrades. With Mars in Leo, Jupiter retrograde in Capricorn, and Saturn direct in Virgo, a reckoning is coming. It can't be stopped under these influences so strongly in place. All of them tell a consistent story-get real! So, observe the nature of larger events, yet, bring thrift and community into your life. The dinosaurs thrashing and battling on TV are for entertainment only.

Mars in late Cancer is quincunx Neptune on the lunar North Node. Cancer rules security and nurturance, and so a significant number of people will see that war is the ultimate destroyer of personal security. War and pain have been part of our evolutionary path, but we are about to complete it. For example, huge numbers of veterans are wounded for life in their minds and bodies, and they might start a protest movement under this last salvo of Mars in Cancer. Also, Mars is opposite Jupiter in Capricorn (exact April 24) for the last time, so we will have one final look at these three oppositions. Last month, the New Moon in Aries was in a T-square to Mars opposite Jupiter, which brought up significant issues around war. This T-Square was very formative because: 1) we began a new Tzolkin Round a day after the New Moon (One Alligator); and 2) we are in the middle of Night Five ruled by Tezcatlipoca, the god of war-that is Mars! To be honest, I was very worried about just how violent things would get during this lunation. Even though things became more violent, there is a building movement for peace that is affecting all the countries in the world, even Israel/Palestine. Mars opposed Jupiter in August 2007 and December 2007, when the world and Americans were rising against Bush's agenda. Now that the last opposition passed on April 24, the worst threats of greater aggression, such as a nuclear incident, may be over. As I have said for a few years, perhaps an economic crash is the only thing that will force the USA to lay down its arms. Once Mars goes into Leo and Jupiter retrogrades until September, the Federal Reserve and the government may not be able to hold up against the tsunami of bankruptcies, and maybe peace will spread country by country.

The Full Moon on May 19-20 aspects the Pleiades and forms a T-square to Saturn in early Virgo. This means we will receive wonderful cosmic guidance during this lunation. As the Pleiadians have often said through Barbara Marciniak, "Your freedom ends where you fear begins." Now it is time to master fear and get involved in the rising tide of freedom that can overwhelm the global elite if each one of us will just join in. The mid-point of the Fifth Night is May 16, when we should experience significant relief from the dark forces that have been so stressful this winter. The May 19-20 Full Moon, just after the midpoint of Night Five, will encourage significant bifurcation. Use the subtle powers of Saturn newly direct in Virgo to create the world you want in the dying ashes of the Planetary and National Underworlds during the end of the Mayan Calendar. [See The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind if you still don't know about Night Five and the Planetary and National Underworlds.] Be creative, ground yourselves, and enjoy this month's harmonic earth energy!

Barbara Hand Clow

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