Lunar Eclipse in Taurus: cling and release
Taurus pulls and Scorpio pushes.
Both of these fixed signs have great inertia, they are like planetary bodies, amassing, until they no longer can sustain. Taurus is a bull grazing in their lush paddock - doing anything to protect the pasture from changing. Thriving in security and stability. Scorpio, quick and forceful, shifting in the dark, poised - similar in the ‘fixedness’ likened with Taurus, yet attracted to chaotic, challenging, and sometime uncomfortable spaces. Taurus is in the open for all to see, Scorpio exist in the intricate hidey-holes. Taurus are ruled by Venus; sensual, yin, fertile, tactile. The scents of the Earth; moss and lichen, pine forests and damp river beds. Scorpio are ruled by Mars and Pluto; power surging, emotion driven, transformative. Water based, smelling of steam, molten earth, and mysterious patchouli.
This eclipse cycle, that began in November 2021, has marked the space for a shifting along this axis, along this extreme, between clutching and letting go, stimulating themes of security, safety, personal power, emotional response. Eclipses often mark significant energies. In this case, there is sudden loss of our lunar reflective light. When the Moon guides so many, what force takes over when that guide is momentarily extinguished? The lapping of the tides, shifting. The nocturnal flowers caught mid-unfurl. This energy is sudden, confusing. But…you are left with your inner compass, always. Over the space of these eclipses how has your inner compass been tuned in. What I mean by this is, what parts of you do you notice take charge when you are emotionally stressed, when you are faced with change, when control slips through your fingers? In what ways have you practiced sense of self and presence to nurture you in sudden misfortunes. How have you given your spirit and soul and body and mind the sensory delight of Taurus, creating safe internal landscapes for you to retreat into. And taking advice from Scorpio: how have you acknowledged your outcast parts, the exiles you have shunned. Have you tried to understand them, nurture them, emotionally express for them.
Sometimes, losing our guidepost results in disorientation; imagine a child spinning without a grounding point of vision, a lack of centre of gravity, limbs flailing, chaotic. Our strength of spirit is something that we can always count on to guide us, it brings our focus inwards, concentrating it at the core. Cultivate this strength of spirit. Depend on yourself to guide you. Love yourself. Scorpio and Taurus teach us that although we wish to control everything, we simply cannot. This practice of release is a daily reminder that there are times when we just can not be in power of our external circumstances, and it calls for a relaxing and expanding. From clinging on with fingertips, to grasping into the free space. Exhaling with the release. Existing in the void of the unknown. And sometimes we need to consciously remind ourselves to stop clawing at the past and learn to TRUST (because trust is always a Scorpio/Taurus issue).
It is all going to be ok.
