Taurus Season 🐮 2023
artist: Lobsang Melendez Ahuanari
Apr 20 – May 21, 2023
Happy birthday, my fellow sacred cows! TAURUS IS THE BEST ♉️
With soul forest freshly burned, ravaged by the carnelian flames of the Aries sun, lay on this earth now. Let your heartbeat take you down, breath down, down into the pungent soil. All is still, all is tranquil. A giant, silky cow ambles into view, making her way through a sun-streaked meadow. Climb on her broad back. Feel her warmth course through your veins.
Taurus season is all about home and feeling at home. It always makes me think of wabi sabi, a Japanese concept best translated as balance between the internal and external – peace and equilibrium. It is synonymous with divine simplicity and natural beauty. Wabi sabi is like drinking tea with a friend in silence, or watching a bear scratch its back on an evergreen clinging to a misty mountainside.
The cow can be graceful like a tender young branch, but she’s not naturally flexible. She puts her roots down prematurely or in the wrong spot if she is too stubborn to try harder, to explore, to consider other options. Balanced Taurus overcomes inertia to carry her weight uphill with expertise. She keeps climbing as her pack grows heavy. She refuses to settle, even though it would be easier.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, Goddess of Love and Leisure. Beloved Venusian luxuries include delicious food, comfortable spaces, fine clothing, etc. Taurus has strong opinions about value. She wants a life of absolute quality. Taurus revels in indulgence. She can be deeply attached to money and material possessions, more than she would like to admit.
When her material life feels threatened, Taurus starts to panic. Everything must be just right; Taureans will fuss over things that others consider minor details. It’s true that we’ll be focusing more on money during this cycle, but we can also use this prodigious earth energy to clean, organize, plant a garden, or get creative. Channel it into your home/domestic life and make positive changes here.
Apr 20 (1st day of Taurus Season): Sun square Pluto in Aquarius. Deep, dark, and intense. Body aches and pains common. Anxiety. Bizarre dreams.
Apr 21: Mercury Retrograde begins ☠️
May 1 (Beltane): Sun conjunct Mercury Retrograde + 1st day of Pluto Retrograde. Exercise lots of caution. No sudden moves.
May 5: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio 🦂
May 9: Sun conjunct Uranus in Taurus. Smooth electric vibes. Think technology, robots, aliens, all things shiny and Aquarius. Expect the unexpected. Best case scenarios unfolding.
May 14: Mercury Retrograde ends! 🎉
May 16: Jupiter enters Taurus 🐮