May 19th: New Moon In Taurus
Get onto stable ground, nourished and ready to build...
Times Around The World...
Hong Kong: Friday May 19th 2023 11.53 pm
London: Friday May 19th 2023 4.52 pm
New York: Friday May 19th 2023 11.52 am.
About This Taurus New Moon, 2023…
The constellation Taurus now plays host to a bountiful stellium, with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus in this sign.
We’ve a window to maximise the attention lavished on this particular house of our horoscope – particularly since the planet of Luck and Generosity (Jupiter) appears here to usher in growth and expansion…
The ruler of the New Moon is Venus, the New Moon is tied to Mars – both in Cancer lending ultimate support! Only Pluto stands as a sticking point…
Aries
Moon meets the Sun in your second house, signalling a new beginning for your role and contribution: for your financial affairs or the way you hold value, uphold a role, sustain yourself, and experience your own worth.
Meanwhile, Venus in your fourth house could lead you to seek pleasure in your primary dwelling – your home, your body or the familiar places that offer great comfort! Perhaps you’ll improve your relationship to your origins or address where you live with a smile!
Attune to what you do; heighten your potential for money making, elevate your role! Profit or produce a greater interest in building as you tend to domestic life and the people around you that are as good as family.
Relationships...
With your ruler Mars and relationship planet Venus in your zone of home, considerable activity could draw you toward your nest or family, heightening the notion of an ‘ideal home’ or environment that breeds safety, stability.
Look to your flourishing sense of self-worth to guide you to your place and where you might base yourself, sense your work can bring about assurance as you circle back to a property or your roots, home land or parental figures – caretakers and figures from the past…
Growth...
Manifest your role, values, worth, income, and material life. Affirm intentions and abundance, launch yourself into practical terrain, grounded and stable.
Open the floodgates on spending, feel competent and capable in your potential, with a sense of security or anchoring as you’re compensated. Reflect on financial security, planning ways to build, develop and grow what you have and make even more…
Taurus
The Moon meets the Sun in your first house, signalling a new beginning for your personal life – or you personally and physically, Taurus; consider what matters to you at a primary level! Note plans to follow through on solo!
Meanwhile, your ruler Venus in your third house could lead you to seek pleasure among close knit ties, siblings or kindred spirits who share a common mindset! Your popularity in a tight group could be apparent, with a way to get on with neighbour’s past or present.
Relationships...
With your planetary guide Venus and stealthy Mars in your zone of communication skills, identify the way you interact (or act and take action) around close kin – cousins, work mates or those you find yourself among.
Have a good time with those in your environment, with people like you who have been through similar experiences, good or bad.
Growth...
Make it all about you, what feeds and fulfils you at an autonomous level, what helps you to be nourished! Have faith, as you look to examine all parts and facets of yourself – from your physical look, body image and issues around your presence, to your purpose, strength of character and physical constitution.
Step out ready to explore all your potential endeavors with co-workers or a sisterhood! It’s a key day to own a fresh start that’s personal, so affirm what you’re now launching, risks you’re taking, and show up, making a fuss of number one…
Gemini
Moon meets the Sun in your twelfth house, signalling a new beginning for the tools and techniques you have to surrender and heal, to move beyond unconscious tendencies, habits or addictions that are potentially problematic.
Meanwhile, Venus in your second house can improve financial prospects, how you’re grappling with the material world, your own security and assets – including your potential to earn a salary or perform well to make a living.
Attune to what serves you and what does not, with ways to profit or gain from your inner contemplation and quiet time taking leave, escaping or dealing with a confidential issue behind closed doors...
Relationships...
A New Moon in your sector of closure and healing signals a time to go offline, losing yourself in a selfless act, with catharsis and recalibration underway.
Consider ways to let go, detox or dream, and find peace in isolation, even calm in existing relationships. Relinquish any illusion of control over others, and what they do or bring to your setup.
Note what you do to lose yourself – even in ways that aren’t good for you (i.e. drugs, sleeping too much, checking out with music, food or sedentary videogames – shopping, eating or sex!), notice what other people have to do with your escapism. Circumstances may seem elusive, secretive, and prompt you to really evaluate what’s working for you…
Growth...
With Mars and Venus in your zone of money, there may be a strong drive to make, build, develop and do. Claim a sense of personal value in your role, or find you can add value!
Attaining something valuable may be key, as you rehabilitate or work in solitude.
Retreat with an element of secrecy – anything that takes the pressure off. Remind yourself how best you unwind and recharge as you spend, delight in recent purchases, profits or lean into your role. Sensitivity may be high around what makes practical sense financially…
Cancer
The Moon meets the Sun in your eleventh house, signalling a new beginning for social life, groups you’re a part of and the wider community–for the capacity you have to network and be involved with something bigger than yourself.
Meanwhile, Venus in your first house elevates and enhances your physical presence, your persona, image or body, so that what you physically represent could be profoundly important now! Perhaps you’ll improve on your wardrobe or push forward a sense of self…
Attune to your people, the group consensus and society, heightening the way you come off among friends, having moved forward with great intent, eager or action oriented, able to smooth over the more aggressive moves made…
Relationships...
Manifest among friends, allies and general acquaintances in the world, with new beginnings touching social networks, the hopes and dreams you hold for humanity and your people.
There may be a sense of team spirit in your industry niche, a sense of fellowship or camaraderie thanks to a class taken, a group or event regularly attended. Open up around your mates, peers and contemporaries!
Note the aspirations you have for everyone, what you hope all people will realise about nature, consumption or the world we live in, with a key role.
Your presence may be highly revered and important to a sense of team spirit.
Growth...
With Mars sharing space with Venus in your zodiac sign, it’s a magnificent time to amplify what you’ve devoted yourself to solo, captivating and enchanting those around you with your take on things: impactful!
Draw on your presence, lending awareness to your special qualities and part and don’t be shy around those in your circle, peers or even society at large!
Look to how you’re keen to participate with unity, hopeful and optimistic about what might be accomplished as a crew. Your selfhood, autonomy, purpose and personal life matters now, even on social media!
Leo
The Moon meets the Sun in your tenth house, signalling a new beginning for your aspirations, public image, your reputation and praise bestowed on you –for your career direction, goals or the way you come across in your outer life.
Meanwhile, Venus in your twelfth house could lead you to seek pleasure in quiet, low key settings, to unravel or come undone. There may be a path you’ve recently walked that’s allowed you to gently prise open hidden issues ¬– addictions, tendencies or habits unbeknownst, even to you!
Attune to how you wish to appear in the world at large, recognised, even having touched on vulnerabilities or weak spots. Grow notions of success, acclaim, and be seen at your very best!
Relationships...
With Mars and social planet Venus in the blind spot of your horoscope there may be a nudge to deal with unconscious motives or bias, so that you’re close to revelations about your selfless nature and how you succumb to charity.
Look to your own flourishing sense of accomplishment – you may need to feel steady, that you’re thriving, stable in how you come off, despite any challenges behind the scenes. A reckoning in your private life (and untoward or illicit dealings have the capacity to see you reach for a spiritual solution).
Growth...
It’s a powerful day to manifest your worldly appearance, public image and the future – the way you come across in your professional life or as a headline act, with notoriety and prominence!
Examine all that spells success to you, or allows you to feel ‘you’ve made it’, winning at life or gaining prominence, eminence or fame!
Affirm intentions and new beginnings, consider this one extra abundant, launch yourself into your goals and ambitions, a trade or vocation. Aspirations are supercharged so reset the dial, finding there’s a selfless, charitable edge to your career aims and achievements.
Virgo
Moon meets the Sun in your ninth house, signalling a new beginning for your outlook on life, with a path that includes a growth journey, epic quest, international travels or a search for your Truth and wisdom!
Venus in your eleventh house signals a social time to enjoy community or peers – the people you associate with, even as strangers with common hopes, dreams and aspirations. A political, religious or legal feat may warrant your time, with a humanitarian angle… Search for meaning and experience, aware of people around you in wider circles…
Relationships...
With passionate Mars and confidence planet Venus in your friendship zone there may be heightened experiences in your network or industry, a way to come together or collaborate with the masses.
Take pleasure in your associates, embracing causes you care about. Adventurous sentiments may matter, foreigners, a global education that leads you to publish or share your thoughts with supportive friends, society at large – your community. Open up to wanderlust, your philosophy, specialism or specialist subjects with people long-distance sparking ideas…
Growth...
Manifest your personal expansion: higher thought, higher education, worldly perspectives and theology, religion and culture. Amplify meaningful experiences and global understanding!
You may find you’re accessing a fresh start – seeking out knowledge or another perspective, another outlook or foreign take on life. Look to unfamiliar terrain or a moral slant that’s yours to identify with or ruminate on. Note a 180 in what you choose to share, publish and believe in! Claim opportunities to go beyond your known limits!
Libra
The Moon meets the Sun in your eighth house, signalling a new beginning for trust and your capacity to be vulnerable. Look to where you’re committed or obligated in your private life, obliged to show up for others…
Meanwhile, your ruler Venus in your tenth house can invite you into a position of prominence – your reputation or professional title may shine, your visibility and notoriety as a parent, leader or authority may now stand out!
Work with others, rely on outside support, particularly where career or a prolific outer profile is concerned; let recognition fuel a significant contract, too – a professional agreement, mortgage, marriage proposal, inheritance, divorce or investment opportunities may benefit from your status and repute!
Relationships...
It’s a powerful day to manifest a sense of unity with others – not simply bringing a partner into view, but going further, with an irreversible bond, an irrevocable tie between you (sharing a child, house, space, bills or your bed!)
Think and talk about an agreement and long-term security, both in a financial sense but also energetically who you might count on (i.e. a babysitter).
For some, trust is built when people have to share money or kids, and co-parent, for others, there may be loyalty forged with a promise (to build a pension or a legacy, future to gain in the pipeline). Find where you’re willing to share or invest what you have – your time, money, resources, energy and the future!) Look fearlessly at taboo areas: death, debts and your own mortality.
Growth...
With Mars and Venus in your zone of aspirations, goals, ambitions and success, there may now be a drive to get ahead and claim a title or accolade! To be seen (perhaps secure in a position or relationship) …
You could be in a prominent position, with vocational paths that allow you to advance – you may be coming off well in the public eye, attracting attention from those higher up or who you’re keen to impress!
Consider where you’re intending to commit or pledge yourself, and what others promise to give in return, with trust and something mutually beneficial on the table to work with.
Scorpio
The Moon meets the Sun in your seventh house, signalling a new beginning for intimate relationships and the way you react and respond to others, the way you partner or team up, one-on-one, with people on your horizon line.
Meanwhile, Venus in your ninth house of wisdom shared urges you to enjoy the philosophy or specialism you’ve grappled with (or even wrestled with). A quest for meaning, knowledge, experience and understanding could now be pertinent! Appreciate what you’ve come to know is true for you.
Attune to those that show up, available or challenging you to engage, and allow space to grow, devoted to a path that allows you to be educated – or broaden your outlook, with a plus one playing a key part.
Relationships...
It’s a powerful day to manifest in your relationships, with a New Moon signalling a time to reset the dial around partners of all kinds.
Time to team up and welcome a way to understand other people, their outlook or perspective on life and the world. Boost the attention you devote to unions, ruminating on those across the table – from a spouse, friend or love interest, to a therapist, coach or even client, colleague, or boss.
A significant other could chime well with a project or travels you’ve set out upon – cultural awareness, so make time to contemplate who you’re happy to engage with, and thier teachings.
Growth...
With Mars sharing space with Venus in your zone of growth, personal development, higher education and broader horizons, it’s a magnificent time to amplify ways you’ve been taking action on a global project or plans.
Profound travels or devotion to a specialism may be touched on, your beliefs or a specialist subject that now captivates and enchants you.
There may be a particular philosophy, knowledge of a place or area of life you’ve become expert in, a [spiritual] experience may have allowed you to study further, with faith propelling you. Share what you know with a plus one!
Sagittarius
Moon meets the Sun in your sixth house, signalling a new beginning for day-to-day life: for the job you do or the way you maintain a sense of order, organization and consistency, for your health regime, diet, and wellbeing.
Venus in your eighth house could lead you to touch on a theme of collaboration, or to look to others for their support! Perhaps you’ll appreciate what a partner affords you, what family give, pledge or donate, or maybe you can initiate a way to merge or contractually bind yourself at work.
Attune to positive, healthy habits able to rely on others and all they do for you, with rituals and regimes you know work well. Go large on lifestyle with certain alliances that can play a part in your upkeep or maintenance!
Relationships...
With Mars and Venus in your zone of strong bonds, you could be actively working on a sense of partnership, able to see the benefits of being affiliated with a nourishing union that affords you something.
You may have been pushing for long-term security, addressing your legacy, mortality and future plans. A positive take on joint finances, collaborations, alliances or general relationships may now be forthcoming, as you show loyalty to others, with a contract, vow or sure thing.
Unify and merge assets, gravitating toward people who encourage you to stay well; alleviate some of the load before you with helpful folk by your side.
Growth...
Note the way you maintain and uphold your role, with freshness and renewal around your duties, sense of service, and your capacity to detox, purify and stay well as a consistent practice.
Look to ways you avoid toxic situations and ill health, including being weighed down by a job that’s not right for you, a situation at work that’s to be addressed.
Liberate yourself!
Perhaps there’s the possibility of lightening your load, delegating to a co-worker, a cleaner, PA, support system, or assistant. Contemplate the help you need, and the positive rituals you’re inclined to continue on with.
Capricorn
Moon meets the Sun in your fifth house, signalling a new beginning for heartfelt wishes and creativity – hobbies, passion, recreational activities and all that makes you laugh or increase your sense of personal gratification.
Meanwhile, Venus in your seventh house could lead you to team up or partner, or brings you into relationship with someone special! A huge emphasis steers you toward one-to-ones: significant people in your midst!
Attune to personal pleasure, laughter, personal inspiration and smiles partaking in life with a collaborator or co-pilot by your side… People across from you at the dining table, the board room table, or the parents evening table could provide excitement or captivate you with intrigue!
Relationships…
The New Moon in your fertile sector of joy and happiness brings a sense of renewal to solo urges, to all you cherish and adore, including a lover, your kids or a potential love match!
Recognise who and what sparks joy, resetting the dial on romance and all you devote your heart to – including your intention to have a baby, see your kids more, or enhance your dating profile to meet “the One”.
With affectionate Venus and Mars in your opposite sign, rouse harmonious matrimony, a prolific romance or a positive affiliation… One-to-one experiences may be ultimately comforting and fun!
Growth...
Heighten your passions and sense of fun, through recreation, creative inspiration, procreation and pleasure – turn to hobbies, your own interests and things that make you smile! Stop and smell the roses, play a musical instrument or craft!
Lean into self-expression, indulgence, pleasure seeking, parties, entertainment and the arts, plan a vacation or turn to sports, games, engage with what makes you happy… Be aware that any plans will gain greater traction with a plus one and the involvement of a partner (platonic as well as a spouse or intimate girlfriend or pal).
Aquarius
The Moon meets the Sun in your fourth house, signalling a new beginning for your emotional or literal foundations, for your experience of family, home and domesticity, for your base, roots, even your body and notions of nourishment.
Meanwhile, Venus in your sixth house could lead you to seek pleasure in your day-to-day – living well, cultivating healthy habits! Enjoy a productive time to get behind your own employment and ideal lifestyle!
Attune to what’s comfortable, stable and sensible; reflect on what works for you as a regular, routine practice, what that suits you and your body… From doctor’s check-ups to scheduled haircuts!
Relationships...
Spotlight a parent(s), emotional patterns, your hidden inner private life or nesting tendencies. Focus on what and who brings nourishment, and stability. Who helps and supports you, or where do you require more assistance? Do you need to delegate more or assign tasks? How that working out for you?
Control planet Pluto in your sign may lead you to a position of dominance or nudge you to take the reins….
Growth...
Become house proud, with a plan for your dream home and interior. Your work or upkeep may have everything to do with the soft-landing pad and steady footing you’re looking for. Appreciate what you uphold as a daily rhythm, with a routine, regime or health practice.
Pisces
Moon meets the Sun in your third house, signalling a new beginning for your skills, writing, language and communications, for local interests and your connection to kindred spirits – even your commute, or teaching.
Meanwhile, Venus in your fifth house could rouse a thirst for self-expression, playtime and passion! Creativity could flow and a project or your children or other people’s may be extra pertinent.
Attune to the important sentiments you have to share or say, leverage your neighbourhood or local connections as you amplify your creative plans, pleasure, entertainment and talents! Mobilise in your local area, aware of what matters to you and the people around you.
Relationships...
Manifest a fresh start in a sisterhood, with brothers in your environment, or around the news you deliver to close friends. You may have a special message, so consider how you band together, and give your opinion to those likeminded.
Astrology’s lovers (Venus and Mars) in your fertile zone of pregnancy, sexuality, and illustrious intrigue draw on procreation and recreation – make time for dating or date night with those around you! Have a good time with your siblings or inner circle…
Growth...
With Mars sharing space with Venus in your zone of fun, heighten a sense of romanticism within you. See solo interests swell, be devoted to any activity that makes you feel alive!
Profound joy may be derived when you fill your own cup, so enjoy life, putting heart into plans, projects and be artistic! Find hobbies that get your heart rate up, inspired to learn, teach, relate or communicate.
Embrace your surroundings and what you might discover thanks to neighbors or a news source, with a common mindset and your curious nature sparked. Be thoughtful, vocal and interested!