Happy Taurus Solar Eclipse!
We've entered the two-week Eclipse Cauldron with the Taurus Solar Eclipse (Super New Moon) exact today at 3:28 pm central on the heels of Pluto Retrograde, with Venus meeting Jupiter today in late Pisces, in the Beltane Cross Quarter Window of High Magic. Exact Solar Beltane is Thursday, May 5.
May features astrology that will blow your mind with three planets retrograde (Pluto, Mercury, then Saturn) a major Eclipse Window opening with the Solar Eclipse today and closing with a Total Lunar Blood Moon Eclipse May 15/16, a shift from the Morning Sky stellium of Pisces (Jupiter, Venus and Mars) into Aries--with Jupiter entering the sign for the first time in 12 years.
Today's Eclipse with Uranus and Venus at the Heart Chakra is conjunct Jupiter in Pisces. We're at the tail end of this big Pisces portal where prayer and the dreamtime have been our keys to making it through.
Keep it simple today, tend to your body and daily rhythms. Less words, more presence. Listen to the intelligence of your body. Feel where the Earth and you are wanting to connect and go there. Create spaces to release whatever grief, sorrow of loss you have been feeling in this Pisces Portal.
The energies of today are potentially ecstatic and revolutionary. Energy wants to be moved through, old stuck blockage wants to be cleared. Let the mind rest, it cannot help you today. The body, the heart, and the soul want to be fully expressed today, to be in charge. Trust the wisdom of your body, and this Earth body.
Venus at the Heart Chakra Gate This Month
On Wednesday, April 27 the Moon activated the Venus Chakra Gate, and this theme is felt for the entire month. I keep getting this little love note when I drink yogi tea saying “Uncage Your Heart, Let it Be Wild.”
You may feel there is an “old me” and “new me” wanting to emerge, and experienced a confusing shuttering between the two. Over the past months and weeks this back and forth might make you and those you love a bit crazy. However, our “new” and “old” selves are actually closer in frequency now and there is a mysterious blending, an integration happening.
It can be gentle. We can shift from what might has felt like violence, or turbulence within ourselves into a field of greater peace and coherence. That is what heart medicine offers to us. It is the healing balm bringing an underlying state of wellness and wholeness and ease to this otherwise quite dynamic month.
This back and forth is happening in our most intimate relationships as well, where a third possibility for a “new relationship” is being birthed as we move back and forth between old patterns that may appear at times quite toxic yet can actually ease up and be loosened more now.
I would go so far as to say this dynamic is also happening between each of us personally and our relationship with the Earth, and our species as a whole and its relationship to our home planet.
You might feel the deep tangles in our relationships with beloveds and family members and some very deep places of pain, shame and embarassment--the shadow has been rising to the surface with Pluto retrograde.
We have been in a place of surrender with all the Pisces medicine and prayer has been our most powerful medicine. Ask what is not for the highest and greatest of all involved to be dissolved and cleared fully and completely.
Pisces to Aries Shift in May
Over the course of the month there is a shift of Venus, Jupiter and Mars from Pisces to Aries. Jupiter moves into Aries for the first time in 12 years on May 10. Even with all the retrogrades and Eclipse energies it is possible find a strong yes or no in our bodies and make choices serving our full expression and con
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