Taurus 2008

In this historic year of heated-up passion shifting to concrete manifestation, we have reached the moment of peak earth power reinforcement. The gravity of reality is undeniable. Primal nature is redefining us.

We began the month with an intensely feeling full moon on April 20, and will end with a second one (a blue moon) on May 19. At the Taurus new moon on Monday, May 5 (the midpoint of spring), the big planets that have all shifted into earth signs will combine with the new moon to make a solid core of reinforced physical nature, activating fertility to break through resistance with the power of a flower.

This is deeply good, but may trigger the release of built-up tension and destructive forces. Again, many traditions warn and reassure us that shock and disruption may be part of the transition to a purified relationship with life's mutually-sustaining interdependence. The unhealthy attempt to control nature will no longer be tolerated. Vitality is reclaiming us.

The grounding influence in fruitful practicality (Saturn in Virgo) completes its apparent backtracking (retrograde) and starts to move forward again on May 2. Expansive creativity (Jupiter) joins heavy power (Pluto) for months of deepening and internalizing (retrograde) in primal constructiveness (Capricorn) on the 9th. The great shift to grounded renewal and fruitful development is complete by Thanksgiving, at the end of November.

This year is about a hugely historic shift to the physical manifestation of primal nature, with the power to radically transform our world. Out ahead, an equally historic alignment of deepest feelings for healing in spirituality, with wisdom in vulnerable sensitivity, leads the way in the enlightened perspective of divine interrelationship.

Surf's up.