The great thing about a solar eclipse is that it’s also a New Moon, initiating a four-week lunar cycle and a new story. Try pursuing that string of thought after this morning’s Taurus solar eclipse, which closes another, cycle of two weeks begun by the Aries lunar eclipse of April 15. Follow the thought that you are somehow beginning anew, and let your thinking lead you to great things of your own.
The idea of following a conceptual string is not inspired by today’s Taurus New Moon and solar eclipse, however, but by astrology’s representation of thought (among other things): Mercury.
For, just as the Moon has already moved deeper into Taurus after passing in front of the Sun earlier today, Mercury has moved on from passing behind the Taurus Sun late last week.
When Mercury passes behind the Sun (just as when the Moon passes in front of the Sun for a solar eclipse), that’s an example of what astrologers call a conjunction. Conjunctions, when two objects occupy the same degree of the zodiac and the same place in the sky, represent (among other things) the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.
That’s how, just as with the Taurus New Moon and solar eclipse this morning, the solar conjunction that Mercury is now moving away from also correspondeds to a new start. In fact, you could say the Moon and Mercury are on the same Taurus page of a new story right now, but Mercury is probably easier to read.