{"id":51417,"date":"2012-01-03T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51417"},"modified":"2012-01-03T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:09:34","slug":"grazing-into-the-new-year-with-a-taurus-moon-cool-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/grazing-into-the-new-year-with-a-taurus-moon-cool-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Grazing into the New Year with a Taurus Moon & cool Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.<\/a><\/strong>. The Moon is in Taurus all day, where it is exalted. You may feel this as emotional harmony — a nice way to get the year rolling, no? If you begin your day feeling a sense of expansiveness in your desire nature, your attitude about your resources and finances, or your attraction to sensory pleasures and fine things, you\u2019re in tune.<\/p>\n

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The Moon begins the day fresh off a conjunction with Jupiter. So while you may notice a strong attraction to comfort and ease, note that the Moon very quickly makes sextiles to a pair of minor planets that may reward taking a little action: Chiron and Vesta in early Pisces. As the Moon hands off the energy baton from Jupiter to these two, stay tuned for the sense of wanting to put your money where your mouth is \u2013 particularly when it comes to the areas of sexual pleasure, any healing\/therapy process you may be considering or beginning, and the creation of the space in your life for these things.<\/p>\n

This may not call for the literal spending of money. There are other ways to apply resources to what you value right now — such as the resource of time. The idea is to notice what feels important and let your imagination (with or without your art supplies) play with how to implement these things tangibly in your life. <\/p>\n

We are in the early days of a brand new year, with every major planet moving in direct motion. This bodes well for moving forward with your desire to facilitate the healing of mind, body and soul. There is no promise that the path will be smooth, given all that is going on in the world and the astrological events Eric has been outlining in his Top Five Events audio series and the 2012 annual edition readings. We are in for some challenges, to be sure. But today the Moon\u2019s sextiles to Vesta and Chiron are offering us access to some creative solutions to how we can devote our resources to our healing of old wounds. Even more important, it is the nature of the sextile to reward any concrete steps we take to further this energy.<\/p>\n

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Even later in the day, the Taurus Moon continues with its harmonious journey, making trines to Pluto and then the Sun, both in Capricorn. This leg of the day is less about using the energy than it is about enjoying the benefits of an easeful angle to Pluto, \u2018The Great Awakener.\u201d Perhaps this translates into simply feeling good about your New Year\u2019s resolutions: You know the changes you wish to make to your environment, body, life-structure, etc., and you also know that the first steps to these processes are doable. You may feel as though your inner and outer experiences are in sync with each other \u2013 a pleasant change, perhaps, from some of our recent days. <\/p>\n

Interestingly, the ruler of Taurus, Venus, is the only other major body making an exact aspect today. Venus is conjunct Pallas Athene in Aquarius. This sign is not the most comfortable for Venus: Venus is about expressive emotion and Aquarius is more about detached intellect, so this makes for a cooler Venus. It\u2019s great for group interactions, but can be a little harder to relate to in more intimate relationships. So Venus makes an interesting counterpoint to the Taurus Moon\u2019s easy emotion and sensuality today. <\/p>\n

That said, today may actually be a good time to enter into any conversations you\u2019ve been meaning to have about the \u2018politics of love\u2019 in your intimate relationships. You\u2019ll have to use your own judgment, of course, if you want to test those waters. But we currently have a sky with surprisingly little tension. The Moon is making aspects that are all about emotional flow, while the ruler of its sign is prone to logic and reason; this could spell even-handed interactions. <\/p>\n

Early tomorrow, the Moon finally makes a square to Venus-Pallas, and that may bring a brief sense of tense imperative in terms of the personal politics at play in your life (boundary negotiations, polyamory, autonomy, admission of desire, and so on). It may be worth getting that ball rolling now before you feel under pressure to do so. That is, of course, if you can be bothered to disrupt the day\u2019s harmony. But hey \u2013 we all need a \u201cFerdinand\u201d moment every once in a while. Enjoy it if one has found you.<\/p>\n

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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.. The Moon is in Taurus all day, where it is exalted. You may feel this as emotional harmony — a nice way to get the year rolling, no? If you begin your day feeling a sense of expansiveness in your desire nature, your attitude about your resources and finances, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}