Taurus New Moon and Solar Eclipse: Your Value

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By Genevieve Hathaway

On Thursday, May 9, we have the second in a series of three spring eclipses: an annular (not annual) solar eclipse as the New Moon in Taurus is exact at 8:28 pm EDT. This astrology will urge us to reassess our values and how we apply them, connecting us with old doubts about our ability to successfully clear emotional blockages that have hindered us from truly embodying our sense of personal value.

Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.

Eclipses are portals, and exploration during this one can help clear the deck on plenty of outdated ideas around what has worth in our lives.

In this solar eclipse, the Sun and Moon meet in Taurus and line up with Mercury and asteroid Pallas Athene. Taurus has a lot to do with values — what we value and how we approach it. It can also indicate where we hold attachment to material things.

New Moons can feel like fresh bursts of energy, and with this occurring in Taurus we are getting a chance for a fresh perspective or approach to what’s important to us, especially emotional attachment.

We demonstrate value in many ways — by giving our time, money, love and emotional support. The resources we give demonstrate the kinds of resources we value. We are being called to consciously recognize and honor what we value and how we demonstrate that.

Emotions provide information here. Do you feel off-kilter when you give too much of your time to things that aren’t important to you? Do you feel your money is better spent on loved ones and experiences or on acquiring material objects? Do objects you’ve acquired, that seemed so important at the time, hold less meaning now?

In Taurus this process can seem slow. Mercury in Taurus slows down the speed of our thought processes, bringing a more thorough and methodical approach. It’s a reminder that we are taking slow and steady steps toward making some deep changes in ourselves — lasting changes, rather than quick fixes. It pays this week to take the time to investigate fully. The energy is pushing us to create new, lasting patterns and approaches.

Pallas Athene aligned with the New Moon is a reminder to have a vision for the kind of person you want to be and the life you want to have. Pallas also brings in issues around ‘daddy pleasing’, or as Martha Lang-Wescott termed it, “approval-seeking; whether one is willing and/or able to do things to please another.”

This calls attention to relationships with father-like figures, such as governments or religious institutions. Where are you giving too much of your power away? Do the choices you’re making support what you believe, or are they based on a desire to please those in positions of authority?

The choices we make are opportunities to support and state what we value. You can also think of this as living from a conscious, rather than reactive, place. This may bring you into conflict with those father figures, but in Taurus there is a strength and stubbornness available to do what is right for you, rather than what is right for another.

Opposite this New Moon in Taurus is Psyche, a minor planet representing a lack of faith in oneself and the incorrect belief that it cannot be reinstated; or that some kind of psychological wounding can’t be healed. In Scorpio, this asteroid asks questions about emotional wounds or blockages that we feel we cannot heal or overcome, and how those blockages perpetuate habits of pleasing others rather than focusing on what’s right and important to us.

The energy of this New Moon eclipse is shifting our perspective to see that the only thing preventing healing has been our perception that it wasn’t possible. We have an opportunity to invest in ourselves, to make some marked progress in knowing who we are on a deeper level and to heal what we find there as needed. We are being asked to make one of the things we value ourselves, and to reevaluate how we honor that inherent value.

Ultimately, what we are learning is that value is a currency and a resource in itself. When we place value on ourselves, others will value us as well. With each choice we make we can reclaim our sense of personal authority. Focus your actions and intentions toward what is important to you rather than maintaining a status quo with anyone in a perceived position of authority — and enjoy all this Taurus energy by making contact with the earth itself: the place from which we, and all wealth, comes.

Genevieve Hathaway is an astrologer, Planet Waves contributor and photojournalist. Genevieve is available for astrology readings. You can contact her at genevieve@venusinblue.com.

17 thoughts on “Taurus New Moon and Solar Eclipse: Your Value”

  1. dawnbrocco — actually, there was a taurus new moon eclipse in late april 1995.

    but — the one in 1994 was in the same degree as yesterday’s eclipse.

    they definitely mark out an interesting patch of time…

  2. thank you, gen — and thanks to everyone who has offered birthday wishes!

    did you get to watch the big event?

  3. Genevieve, “what Len said”, especially in his first sentence written without pause or breath. An inspired and inspiring article, to be sure.

    In P8 my brain did something to your sentence one, and I had to regroup to see what you had written. However – the magic words that appeared differently were in deed an important add-on message for me. I saw: “Pallas…have vision for the kind of person you want to be at the end of the life you want to live”. The subtlety being that this is a doorway to creating a lasting process of change – we humans don’t usually do things instantaneously – and where is it that the changes I make now will take me tomorrow and so forth?

    Thank you. Truly lovely.

  4. Amanda – happy birthday eclipse! 🙂 Hope it adds extra magic to your birthday week.

    Lunesoleil – Thank you for the lovely feedback!

  5. JannKinz – Thank you for your lovely feedback!! Sounds like you’re doing some great inner work in your life. 🙂

    amplantier – Glad to hear you connected with the post. 🙂

    lizzy – so glad to hear that your former work situation is finally getting all sorted!

    Dawn – Sounds like you were very blessed to have so many years with the amazing Pickle! Your little munchkin will always be with you, even if other doggies come into your life. A friend once told me that when we lose someone we love very much we get another guardian angel. I know your little Pickle is still with you and watching over you.

  6. Thanks Geneviève for your wonderful article, I retained psyche in conjunction to the North node that speaks much to me since the asteroid back on my March… What my given more understanding. Good cycle of the moon to you 🙂

  7. between remembering some of what was going on for me in may 1994 (the end of my sophomore year of college) and the two fascinating dreams i had last night (both having something to do with writing — one, of not feeling up to the task or not willing, but giving it a go anyway; the other, of being told in clear terms how completely i had failed at a major piece of (nonexistent) writing linked to my past — i am very curious, indeed to get a little perspective on today’s eclipse.

    i get some of the correspondences, both personal and astrological. but it’s all a little too close to see around the edges and the middle is blurry, yet very familiar…

  8. Supposedly, this eclipse and Taurus new moon hasn’t occurred since May 1994. What was I beginning to build into my life, then and have I manifested it?

    In May of ’94, we had just found, via psychic help, the antique house and property we were to restore for the next 16.5 years. We no longer have the house. I still miss the feeling of home that place brought back into my life, a sense of place I did not have since my high school. In ’94 our dog, Pickles was born. He called to us in ’95. We rescued him from the shelter and loved him for the next 18 years, almost to the day that we found him in the shelter.

    One doesn’t let go of the past. The past shapes us, mind, heart and soul. We do need to learn, though, how to go forward, all the while holding All our past, good, bad and indifferent, in regard, treasuring its place in our story.

    I’ve been wanting another place that feels like home. I don’t, however, want our old home back, though I did for a long time. In the meantime, I am making this place feel less alien, more like the cottage *I need it to be*. 14 heirloom/old garden roses, in several shades of pale through deep pink, were delivered today, and we’ve been painting the picket fence white, which the roses will be planted against.

    I’ve been wanting another dog. But what I really want is my Pickles back. My heart still needs to find a way forward, so to be able to love another dog, without always thinking of Pickles.

    Some people have SO many good things in their life, that when one leaves, the feeling of loss doesn’t cut as deeply. I’m not sure that this doesn’t apply to most of us. Truly wonderful things only come along once in a very long while.

    For Life to be Full, we need to welcome, to manifest, as many wonderful things as we can, as our hearts can.

    Maybe the stars will make this possible, for all of us. More joy, More love. More wonderful!

  9. “When we place value on ourselves, others will value us as well, etc”. Never have words rung so true for me. A couple of days ago I wrote to my ex-boss, asking her to pay me the two months salary she owed me since the job folded last December. Well I spoke to her today and she apologised for being so late and told me that she was going to start paying me the money she owed me (she’s in deep water too since losing the job). You’re right, dear Mia, that door has really opened.

  10. Thank you. So much to ponder and explore in this and I will be doing that. I especially loved:
    “Ultimately, what we are learning is that value is a currency and a resource in itself. When we place value on ourselves, others will value us as well. With each choice we make we can reclaim our sense of personal authority.”
    Helps me to see it in a whole new way.

  11. Thank you, Genevieve, for very powerful and perceptive insights into this eclipse and New Moon, presented gently but firmly. Synchronicities have been abundant, and can be noted if “living consciously.” So much here for meditation over the next twenty-four hour, and for me to consciously choose to apply, and much in the Moonshine horoscopes that are smacking me in the face. Thank you for keeping me awake and conscious.

    “The resources we give demonstrate the kinds of resources we value.” Thank you also for this new mantrum, a new version of the Golden Rule, to be hung on a refrigerator magnet or taped to the computer screen for daily integration.

    JannKinz

  12. Thank you Len for your amazingly kind words and feedback!! I’m so touched! 🙂

    jinspace – I’m glad my post touched you so much as well! Thank you for the feedback.

    Lizzy – Thank you for the kind words and feeback!!

    Down here in Oz we get to see this eclipse. Should be a great show. 🙂 There’s something special about not only being able to feel the energy but as see the event.

  13. Yes, I’m with Len and jinspace.Thank you for this wonderful piece, Genevieve, and for your beautiful Moonshine Horoscopes.

  14. Thank you, Genevieve – My sentiments are with Len on your “helping us grasp the gravity of and make the most of” this moment. This piece is lovely, wise and profoundly inspiring.

  15. Thank you, Genevieve for the substance of your comprehension and the depth of your contemplations being so convincingly brought to bear for the purpose of helping us grasp the gravity of and make the most of this peak event in a monumental season. Thank you also for this week’s master work of your Moonshine Horoscopes, which, once again, have opened previously unexplored vistas for Planet Waves subscribers. You leave me in awe and with inspiration.

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