TAURUS FULL MOON ECLIPSE: HOROSCOPES
The Taurus Moon is growing full...and it's an eclipse !
officially, Oct 28th at 1:24pm Pacific - 5º Taurus
We are in the tail end of eclipse season - a technicolor portal of accelerated change, heightened emotions and WTF-ness as hidden truths challenge us to rethink what is important. In our personal life, this may look like a sudden realization about a relationship, career path or habit that prompts a major ending or beginning. This upcoming full moon is especially a threshold as it marks the last Taurus/Scorpio eclipse from a cycle that started two years ago.
Taurus/Scorpio is the stubborn, security seeking zone of the zodiac and so ask yourself: since November 2021 - how has your attachment style to relationships, money or sense of emotional security changed ? How many false footholds have been revealed ? What are your basic needs, ie: what are you deal breakers in love, what routines make your body feel good, what is the price of admission for your labor? This full moon holds prolonged eye contact with these questions...and with Mercury sharp-tongued next to Mars in Scorpio, the answers may spit you in the face as a passionate yes or no decision, a clarifying argument or a personal resolve to move forward as a no-bullshit version of yourself.
Despite the potential for strong emotions to surface - the day of an eclipse is not a good time to be super active or make big moves. On Oct 28, let patience and rest be an alchemical tool. Whatever comes up, I encourage you to mull it over and understand its flavors....the more you hold space to learn the textures of your truth, the more clear your requests and calls to action can be.
We like our tasty things, our coffee and desserts, these parts of the material world that offer pleasure on a stressful day. Food is often something we have a strong opinion about...unlike other conceptual ways we get lost in people pleasing, in saying yes when we feel no - we all seem to be honest with ourselves about what what just tastes good to us. Imagine being just as sure about how much you don’t like eating eggplant as you are about saying NO to a conversation you’re not ready to have, or a task you don’t have the time for. Really let yourself taste your preferences straight from the belly of the truth.
We’ve all been on our knees defeated by our cycles, our personality patterns that keep coming around to the same obsessions, fixations, relationship blowouts or fears. In these moments, our psyche can feel like unmovable solid dirt. Yet, you're actually right where you need to be. In small and big ways, solid dirt will crack, rain falls, it turns to mud and we get to play in it before it hardens again. Be one with your subconscious clay...there is no linear, quick fix - our regular ruts are meant to be both hard and soft, a sacred material to keep shaping.
It’s perplexing to me why people are still socially pressured to shake hands when they meet -- professionalism masked as fake intimacy. Yet, you will not be fooled, you are not scared to leave people hanging, not because you’re an asshole but because the cost of following formalities is no longer effective. It’s time you bump elbows, flash the peace sign or whatever invention you feel when seeing a face for the first time. You get to decide your own game of impressions, you get to say 'hello' in whatever perfect pitch you want - make new friends in full honesty.
Sure, there are times in life where climbing to the top of a mountain with a cane and cloak is commendable. Yet, for the most part, the myth of individuality is the antithesis to happiness or even survival. The myth does not mention, you depending on trees for shade and rabbits to eat as you ascended those rocks. The myth doesnt mention, you lost your mind half way up with no one to process intensities with. The myth omits you coming down from the mountain lodged so deep inside your own psyche that you forget how to order a coffee, to be in the mix of this world - this world that you need in order to be human.
It doesn’t matter how many tools you have or what spiritual practices you are devoted to etc etc. I have discovered who I am from hard-core daily ritual practices just as much as binge watching netflix or shaving my head after a breakup. Everything has its season and the greatest resource is to stay curious. To watch yourself be in this world, doing your best…resisting, surrendering, resisting again - doing your best to let change happen, and then gripping too hard and wishing it wasn’t - until finally you metabolize what you can and cross a threshold. The greatest spiritual tool isn't any tool at all, but simply a commitment to knowing yourself.
Consider the space you call home - consider the attic, the cellar, drawers or fantasies of the like. The home is a temple for the soul and its duties are satisfied by one important facet - beauty. Even the barest room is an opportunity to help you feel the way you wanna feel, love the way you wanna love. Rather than abstract the function or design of home into square feet, hardwood floor or futon... focus on the overall emotional response your personal space gives you and the ways it can radiate out into the world - imagine your privacy being in union with the graces of your public life.
The body changes shape with every bump against reality. We float in space until another person, place, or good book smashes into us and helps us realize a new form is possible. What a relief to see stinging bees disperse and gather nectar on a field of flowering blossoms. Notice where tension in the neck or the hip or the head can finally stop its holding pattern - can finally stop hiding in its nest and spread elsewhere, into new styles, curiosities, seeds of potentiality are everywhere...a new haircut, a name change, a different color palette with pollen all over your nose.
Loneliness can often be a result of a communication error - of not being direct about who you wanna love and what days you have available. It is not a sign of neediness to reach out and want connection, letting people know you feel good around them is a sign of self-respect. Being brave enough to reach out can be the difference between a superficial wave and a lifelong companion. All of us are scared, all of us have been burned so no need to beat around the bush - if you feel a potential, it’s worth a vulnerable attempt to communicate it. Your bat signal is a sacred step to secure attachment to yourself.
Some wisdom has a shelf-life. Some ideas make sense and help you sustain life for only awhile. It does not mean you are a charlatan or that you are confused - truth is always on stilts. The error would be to keep walking precariously around with old axioms as if your feet are on the ground. The wisdom you gained from one relationship doesn’t always apply to the next, or otherwise the puzzle pieces are rearranged, almost similar but not. The aim here is to be present with your board game - there are experiences you’ve had in the past that can help you make wise decisions and there are wise decisions that can only be made by considering the uniqueness of this moment.
Third base is when you get to see each other gnawing at bones drooling with no eyelids in a blind fit of rage. Where arguments lead to more arguments which lead to more misunderstandings because everyone is trying to be right. Third base is losing yourself somewhere in the outfield, we wait lovingly for you to re-coagulate and return to the game, for the heat to settle and solidify back into the shape of who you are. Let it be known, to be right is to isolate yourself. The need to be right is to separate yourself and no cat wins trying to catch its own tail.
It’s good to have friends you can go to when you’re feeling sad. It’s good to feel safe with people who are able to hold space for your lows. Yet do not forgot how important it is to also have those people who love you when you're feeling pumped up, doing good, got a promotion or a personal win. Notice, who can handle your range of ups and downs without feeling bogged down by your darkness or threatened by your superpowers - those friends who can hold the center of both grief and happiness are rare and worth cultivating...seek out those who celebrate your power.
There is much preparation before one can be initiated. Some spend long years in preliminary training - learning all the lessons of life, disciplining mind and body patiently waiting for admission. Often, after the long arduous journey, the burdens your consciousness has passed through suddenly make the important connections. Dion Fortune likens this to a builder gathering materials for a house...section by section, carefully, accurately spending weeks with no wall risen - until after much laborious preparation, they come to a stage where they are ready to assemble the parts and rapidly, bolted together - the structure is up.