"These are indications that the transformational stew is bubbling away upon the stove top of the current zeitgeist, troubling nearly everyone. In a way these disruptions are much to be feared, because massive change is difficult to accommodate to; there is always some degree of loss involved. In another way however, we can also rejoice in the idea that at least it won’t be boring. It might help you to remember that change is not only inevitable, but also useful in facilitating the flow of your individual personal evolution. It also helps when you recognize that life itself is change, nothing but. "

A New Moon of Confusion, Transformational Change, and Hope for the Future By Henry Seltzer The Taurus New Moon taking place on Saturday, May 4th, in mid- afternoon on the West Coast, early to late evening for points east, is another powerful lunation, mostly due to the highlighted presence of Pluto conjunct a slow-moving Saturn, as well as the potent presence of both Uranus and Neptune. Pluto is especially prominent, because of the continued presence of Saturn nearby, both conjunct and parallel to Pluto, and also because aspected by Mars, Jupiter, Eris, and the New Moon itself, in trine. These are indications that the transformational stew is bubbling away upon the stove top of the current zeitgeist, troubling nearly everyone. In a way these disruptions are much to be feared, because massive change is difficult to accommodate to; there is always some degree of loss involved. In another way however, we can also rejoice in the idea that at least it won’t be boring. It might help you to remember that change is not only inevitable, but also useful in facilitating the flow of your individual personal evolution. It also helps when you recognize that life itself is change, nothing but. Although this extremely highlighted presence of Pluto is the principle agent of transformation in the current skies, signifying that for the next thirty days we are really in for it, in terms of the disruption that major structural metamorphosis always brings, it is interesting in addition to contemplate the strong presence also of Uranus and Neptune. In this New Moon configuration, Uranus lies in perfect semi-square to Neptune, to within 6 minutes of a degree! Uranus is also closely semi-sextile to Chiron and parallel to the Moon. The function of this trickster archetype is to awaken us to possibility, to the potential of a different way to do things. We may well expect to see, over the course of this current cycle, a continuation of the series of synchronicities and strange events that have accompanied the prior one. And, as far as Neptune, highlighted in this New Moon configuration by aspects from Venus, Uranus, plus the Sun and Moon, we might expect a continuation of confusion, illusion, outright deception, cries of “fake news,” and beneath it all, an otherworldly and fundamentally spiritual approach...   Read more about the Taurus New Moon »