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Planting Seeds of Abundance and Love: New Moon Solar Eclipse in Taurus

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The New Moon- Solar Eclipse in Venus ruled Taurus is about finding a more balanced relationship with matter--which includes our bodies,  our possessions, and  the environment we live in.   It means learning how to nurture ourself and others, and staying grounded in the midst of the ongoing chaos and upheaval of these challenging times. When the two 'lights' conjoin at a New Moon, they create an alchemical  merger that activates a sacred marriage of masculine and feminine energies. At the time of the eclipse, the feminine Moon will temporarily block out the light of the  masculine Sun,  eclipsing logic in favour of a more intuitive internal experience.  This is the age of the return of the feminine, and a Solar Eclipse in Taurus continues the theme. As the Cardinal Grand Cross energy deconstructs the old paradigm,   eclipses usher in new energy.  “The Sun entered the sign of Taurus on April 19 th ,  just hours before the Grand Cardinal Cross

Easter Weekend with Uranus and Pluto

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This weekend the Sun has entered the earthy sign of Taurus. Taurus represents the great mother; her arms spread wide to nurture and ground us in sensual delights. This is a perfect segue into Easter … also said to be originally a goddess centered celebration. Rabbits and eggs are both symbols of fertility, and are likely  a holdover from ancient spring festivals. And chocolate is about as Taurean as anything can get. Many  early religions were goddess centered, and most cultures and religions have stories about people (or gods) dying and coming back to life; the ancient Egyptian story of Osiris being one of many; of course the Christ story is what we commonly associate with Easter. Easter falls upon the first Sunday after first Full Moon to occur on or after the Vernal Equinox, which some say links into the old Anglo-Saxon lunar calendar, and thus means that the date of Easter is derived from paganism.   Another source insists that the date of Passover was '

Out with the Old. In with the New: Full Moon Eclipse in Libra

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An eclipse is a time of  death and rebirth as we release  parts of ourself that we have outgrown  and begin to enter into something new. At around 2 am EDT/ 7 am GMT April 15th,  as the earth comes between it and the Sun,  t he Moon will gradually disappear until all that remains is a glowing red ball hanging in the sky. This is a moment of profound pause as the Moon  gets transformed before our eyes. The remaining red orb  is akin to the glowing embers of a fire; something will be changed or removed from our life forever. An eclipse in Libra brings a chance to offload some of the emotional baggage we have been dragging  into our relationships  for far too long. If we need to walk away from something that is not working, this is a good time to do so.  The Full Moon will amplify and bring to a peak whatever going on beneath the surface till now. And the eclipse will then clear way whatever it is that needs releasing. Some relationships will end under