THE FLOWER (OR STRAWBERRY) MOON : NEW MOON IN TAURUS 19TH MAY 2023 AT 4.54PM (GMT)

Moon in Taurus Sun in Taurus.

Venus in Cancer Mars in Cancer Jupiter in Taurus…

Nodes in Taurus

Sun/Moon/Jupiter/Mercury/Uranus and North Node in same Earth sign of Taurus.

A rare event.

The last few days have seen Jupiter move into the sign of Taurus out of Aries. This will be a year long cycle of Jupiter through this sign and it will bring us an expansion of the traits of Taurus as we might expect. Luxury being one of them! Love and harmony and very earthly presence. Without going overboard as Jupiter expands what it shines on for the good or not so good so we must also find a balance with that. With the coming summer days we will want to be out in the sunshine and really honour the Sun and the Earth and what they give to us unconditionally. In our honouring of their gifts we will once more harness the energy that honours both the Earth and the Sun and Mother blossoms. There is nothing to heal only our attitudes towards Mother. (Venus/Taurus. Mars in Cancer).

This will be a gracious new Moon in Taurus after the extreme run we had of Mercury retrograde in its sign. It went to the very base of our consciousness and dragged up a lot of what we needed to let go of and in some cases showed us what we still cling to. This is a new start. It will be reflective of how we feel about ourselves also so we must celebrate how we present ourselves to the world without judgment or criticism. We are in a time where everyone has an opinion that wants to be heard and their ‘truth’ to be exposed but the pendulum has swung too far to one side and in some cases we have lost our way with what we need to judge as right or wrong or just let be! The beautiful Strawberry Moon will give us an insight into our own understanding of how we look on to the world from our hearts (Venus) outwards. For this reason we must just allow our hearts to be kind. To ourselves but to others. To find a space that is safe for someone to sit with you and just be themselves without need of proving their authenticity. Maybe the whole point of awakening is that after the chaotic challenges of truth and revelation we find that the only revelation that really matters is how we are honest and authentic with ourselves.

We also have the Nodes in Taurus and that is looking at our karma and how we have dealt with it and in what way we are moving forwards onto our soul path. The lessons learned may have been about childhood traumas being our Mystery School to enable us go on to teach others or it may be that we have learned the gift of forgiveness and its true meaning of ascension.

Jupiter squaring Pluto is asking us to go through the looking glass of our life and see through the illusions we may have built around past experiences and rather than hold them up as our banner of victimhood that we see them as the doorways to a greater peace and expansion of character it may have allowed us to connect with. This is not a little time. It is a very very big one. We can use flowery words for this Flower Moon and indeed they will also describe its beauty but we must look very deeply into our own logic and why we do certain things first. We must see that what we do on a daily basis, how we treat others and our view of ourselves also must be like instruments in the orchestera of a cosmic plan and in doing so we will begin to feel the change in our own character. We will not have the need to be proven right or to gain approval. Rather we will be silently doing what we have always wanted to without realising it. We will have come home to ourselves and in that we can begin to walk a new path. One that sees the World change around what we do.

Mother knows we are fragile and doubt ourselves. But She also knows despite the journey of challenge we have always had a feeling that She was there at every step. She needed no appreciation of this or acknowledgement. Our faults were only seen as our tools for learning. The way we grew and searched for a deeper meaning in ourselves is what She waited for. Not for herself or for what she might gain, as that is not the story. She waited for us to find ourselves free of the chains of fear, guilt, anger and judgment because when we do we are bound to no one and we remember Her.

Aphrodite Beloved

Caroline xxx

The Sophia Way

Glastonbury 2023