New Moon in Taurus: Staying Rooted While the World Trembles

On April 27th, we meet the fertile, sensual stillness of the Super New Moon in Taurus —but it’s anything but peaceful.

This lunation, happening at 7 degrees of Taurus, is cracking open long-buried survival patterns. We’re being asked to hold onto what’s real while everything we thought was stable begins to shift. And for many of us, that’s shaking out through the body, the heart, and the core of our relationships.

Let’s go deeper—into the earth of Taurus, the electricity of Pluto and Mars, and the soul contracts being rewritten through Venus, the ruler of this moon.

If you have personal planets in the early degrees of the fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), this energy will be impacting you quite personally.  Find out if this is you by signing up to the Lunar Alchemy Collective, where you’ll get full access to this article and instructions on pulling up your chart & learning how the energy is affecting you.  If not, you will still be affected by this energy wherever you have these degrees in your chart.

The Body as Temple

Taurus is ruled by Venus and governs the body, values, sensuality, worth, and stability. It’s the sign of embodiment, of learning not just to feel—but to stay with the feeling. It’s what teaches us to root when the winds of life threaten to pull us away from ourselves.  It’s the stability amongst change; the reminder that during times of deep transformation and rebirth, we need to return to simplicity - to the earth that holds us and to the bodies that carry our soul.

In the body, Taurus rules the throat, the jaw, the voice—but also our physical security and therefore our relationship to our physical vessels. It’s how we feel safe enough in the body to be in our feminine energy of receiving. How we regulate after rupture. How we return to the garden and beauty within.

This New Moon asks:

What do you believe you must give up in order to be loved? And what if the real safety lives inside your truth, not your silence?

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Mars Opposite Pluto: The Final Confrontation

This New Moon isn’t floating in isolation — it’s entangled in a tense, catalytic T-square with the Mars–Pluto opposition, the final burn of a story that first ignited last November.  On November 3rd, Mars in Cancer opposed Pluto in Capricorn at the critical (anaretic) degrees of these cardinal signs. That opposition cracked open deep ancestral wounds, survival instincts, and emotional armor built over generations. It hurled us into the transformative fire — forcing long-buried patterns around safety, belonging, and emotional survival to the surface.  We were stirred at the root: our family systems, attachment wounds, and the unconscious strategies we learned just to survive a world that didn’t always meet our needs with tenderness or stability.

Now, under this New Moon, we are meeting the echoes of that confrontation — but this time, the energy is different. It is more liberating. It offers a portal, not just a reckoning.

With Mars now in Leo (fire) and Pluto freshly stationed in Aquarius (air), the invitation is clear: We are being called to break the old cycles consciously. To shift the stories we’ve inherited about our worth, our power, our right to take up space and create. To break through the emotional armour that rose out of outdated survival patterns which kept us small, hidden, silenced, or afraid. To stand in our worth and plant new seeds from the ashes of all that has been stripped away. And more than that; we are being asked to recognize that our personal liberation is deeply intertwined with collective liberation.

This isn’t just about our own healing anymore. It’s about what we do with the wisdom we've fought to uncover. It’s about how we embody new paradigms of power — ones rooted in sovereignty, not domination; in authenticity, not performance. It’s about using our creative fire, our radiance, our courageous hearts to forge new pathways not just for ourselves, but for the world. Because when we heal the roots, we heal the branches. Because what we birth from our ashes impacts collective evolution.

At its core, Mars opposing Pluto in Leo/Aquarius is a confrontation between the self — our ego, creativity, personal will — and the forces of collective transformation that demand we move beyond individual survival into a higher, more liberated form of existence. It is a collision between personal sovereignty and systemic change. Neither can emerge untouched.

These two planets are co-rulers of Scorpio — the domain of death, rebirth, power, and sacred alchemy and the release point to this tension, where Lilith is currently transiting. Lilith, the embodiment of the Dark Feminine, represents the raw, intuitive, untamed forces within us — the parts of the psyche that refuse to be controlled, silenced, or shaped by societal norms.

Her presence here signals that the crisis point between Mars and Pluto is not just about personal power versus collective forces — it is also about the liberation of the repressed feminine within all of us: 

• The dark wisdom.

• The wild knowing.

• The rage that births freedom.

• The intuition that refuses to apologize.

  
  

Their opposition creates a threshold moment that demands liberation — not just of action and direction, but of the primal, embodied wisdom that has been buried for generations. It asks us to act, to release, to choose a new path — one rooted not in the survival patterns of the past, but in a deeper, unapologetic, intuitive truth.

The tension is thick, electric, inevitable — but Scorpio reminds us that transformation is not destruction. It is initiation. The medicine here is potent:

• Let go of what no longer honors your soul’s evolution.

• Grieve what must be grieved.

• Burn what must be burned.

• And walk forward holding your power — not as a weapon to control, and not as armor to protect, but as two open hands ready to create.

  
  

This Mars–Pluto finale is a spiritual war between the self that performed safety and the self that now embodies radical, sovereign truth. The part of you that made itself small in order to survive — and the part of you that now knows your radiance and your worth is not negotiable. The battle is ending. The rebirth is already beginning.  The world needs what only you can build from your ashes.

Scorpio as the Release Point: Power in the Death

As Pluto and Mars square this New Moon, their rulership of Scorpio makes Scorpio the release valve for this immense pressure… and Lilith here is unapologetically demanding you own your power.

This means: transformation is non-negotiable. The way out is not comfort. It’s surrender. It’s choosing to allow a part of you to die—an outdated identity, a role, a relationship dynamic, a way of seeking a false sense of safety. But Scorpio doesn’t take from you without replacing it. On the other side of the loss is raw, real, resurrected power. The kind that no longer needs to perform to be loved.

Venus Speaks of Soul-Rooted Love

Venus, ruler of Taurus and the guardian of this New Moon, is currently revisiting sacred ground — near her earlier conjunction with the North Node and Saturn in Pisces, which first activated in late January. This energy is deeply karmic and divinely orchestrated. It isn’t casual. It isn’t random. It is soul work.

Saturn in Pisces teaches us to set sacred boundaries within our spiritual and emotional lives — to anchor our healing in real-world action, not just intention. The North Node in Pisces pulls us toward choosing love and compassion — but not the kind that erases or abandons the self. Not the martyrdom path, but the evolutionary path: loving fully, while staying rooted in truth.

Now, as Venus moves through this terrain again, we are being shown — lovingly but firmly — that love without roots is fantasy. Desire without devotion cannot sustain. Unconditional love does not mean boundary-less love.

This energy demands us to root ourselves in what truly matters:

• To stay grounded in our values, especially in relationships.

• To love without abandoning ourselves.

• To stay faithful to the truth of who we are, even when that truth costs us false closeness, temporary comfort, or approval.

  
  

This New Moon is a threshold: Where you can no longer pour your sacred energy into vessels that cannot hold it. Where you are asked to hold your love as precious — not withheld, but wisely invested with discernment.

This is a karmic reckoning. Endings and beginnings are inevitable. Patterns that once leaked your sacred life force into unworthy hands will be revealed. There is grief in this, but there is also massive liberation and clearing. On the other end of the spectrum, Saturn’s grounding force here may also solidify something that only existed in ‘potential’.  Either way - it is highly karmic and won’t be easy - Saturn demands effort and lessons learned over long periods of time.

Personally, I feel this on a cellular level. In my own life, this transit — especially the lessons of Saturn — has revealed to me one of the most difficult, soul-altering truths: I used to believe that if I loved enough, stayed soft enough, stayed available enough, that love would find a way. But I have learned that containment is sacred. That when I withhold my truth — when I dim my needs, my desires, my boundaries for the sake of connection — I do not just betray myself. I invite the same dishonesty, the same emotional unavailability, back into my life. I create a mirror that reflects my self-abandonment. And it blocks the soul-blueprint intimacy I truly crave — the kind of love that meets me, holds me, and honors the full immensity of my being.

Saturn is a difficult teacher. He strips away the illusions we cling to. He asks for sacrifice — not as punishment, but as devotion to the higher vision we say we desire. But Saturn works hand in hand with the North Node and Venus right now, and together they remind us: every surrender brings us closer to the life, the love, the freedom our soul has always been reaching for.

This New Moon is an evolutionary initiation - tt is not about getting what you want immediately. It's about aligning with what your soul needs most profoundly. It is about choosing self-honoring love — and trusting that the rest will rise to meet you.

Let this be the season where you choose rootedness over fantasy, where you bless the endings, and plant the seeds for the love that is real, reciprocal, and ready.

An Invitation to Choose Differently

While the Mars–Pluto opposition ignites intense emotional confrontations and karmic release, a powerful sextile between Saturn in Pisces and Venus, the North Node, and Uranus in Taurus offers a quiet but potent opportunity. It’s an invitation — one we must actively choose to step into.

This sextile links emotional maturity, soul-boundaries, and spiritual healing (Saturn in Pisces) with radical self-worth, embodied values, and evolutionary love (Venus, North Node, and Uranus in Taurus). Together, they open a portal for building something tangible, lasting, and true — if we have the courage to choose ourselves.  This energy wants you to remember.

• Commit to your truth. Love rooted in fantasy will not sustain you.

• Your values — not just your desires — are the map to your soul’s evolution.

• Break free from the old loops. Liberation is waiting — and it will surprise you.

This is an evolutionary moment where we are asked:

Will you choose what is real, even if it costs you false closeness? Will you root deeper into your embodied truth, rather than leak energy into fantasy or nostalgia? Will you anchor your sacred heart in soil that can actually nourish it?

This sextile is not passive like a trine might be - it requires inspired action and demands that we:

• Stand firm in our self-worth, even when loneliness or grief tempts us back into old illusions.

• Set boundaries not from fear, but from devotion to our own sacred becoming.

• Recognize that unconditional love does not mean unconditional access.

• Understand that true love must meet us where we are — not drag us back into who we used to be.

  
  

You are here to plant the roots of a new love — first within yourself — and from there, to magnetize the soul-aligned connections that can hold you, see you, and meet you.

This is a karmic moment and the evolution it offers is incredibly potent. Choose yourself — and watch the future bloom differently.

My Body Became the Oracle

Personally, this lunation has been erupting through my ribcage—literally. After returning to the place of my past (Ontario), surrounded by family and the echoes of old relational patterns, a sprained left rib emerged that has been with me for weeks now.

The body doesn’t lie. My heart was aching to expand, but part of me still braced for judgment, misunderstanding, or shame. The echo of past hurts, emotional abandonment and betrayal by those I let have access to the most vulnerable parts of me caused my protective mechanisms to fire, bracing to protect my heart. The same way it did with past lovers who couldn’t meet my depth. The same way it does when I revisit wounds with my mother—who recently told me my sensual expression was “embarrassing.”

This New Moon taught me:

My power, my sensuality, my softness, my love - will never be accepted by everyone. I will never be seen by those I feel I have to prove my worth to.  But all of me must be seen, held and accepted by me.

This isn’t an easy lunation. But it’s a liberating one.

You are not here to perform peace or withhold your soul’s deepest truth and longings to maintain a false sense of intimacy. You are here to embody truth, power, and beauty—even if it shatters an old version of yourself or your relationships.

Let the old die. Let the real take root. And remember—your body is the altar. Trust what it tells you.

xx, Vanja

Where is Taurus in your chart? If you need help, see this video & this PDF. How do these life area relate to the energy described above?

Where do I still shrink or silence myself to preserve connection?

What part of me is ready to die, and what new power is waiting underneath the grief?

When my nervous system wants to escape, fight, fawn or freeze, how can I lovingly return to my body?

What does love — rooted in my true values — actually look and feel like? What attachments need to fall away to honour this?

Embodying the Shift

You’ll need:

• A mirror

• Oil or body lotion

• Music that stirs emotion

• A candle

1. Cleanse and Center

Light the candle. Stand or sit in front of the mirror. Breathe into your body. Touch your throat, your womb, your heart.

2. Speak the Truth

Gaze into your eyes and say aloud:

I no longer shrink to be loved.

I am safe in my truth.

My worth is not up for debate.

Let emotion come. Let tears rise. Let your voice break if it needs to.

3. Touch Your Power

Anoint your body with oil, moving slowly over the parts you’ve hidden, shamed, or silenced. As you do, say:

I reclaim this body as sacred.

I release the shame of generations.

I return home to myself.

4. Close in Gratitude

Thank your body for holding the truth. Blow out the candle as you declare:

So it is. So it ends. So I am reborn.