Taurus’ Pleasure State
Art by Boris Vallejo
Mercury was first across the line by a bull's whisker, joining Venus in Taurus' elysian fields moments before the Sun's impending arrival. And just like that their slipstream flicks the switch from fire to earth.
Each of the astrological seasons this year are distinct, immersive and transformational. Non? We are four from four, darklings. Taurus season still calls our senses back from the flames, reclaims our body and places it firmly on even footing, grounds it and us back in the natural world we too often miss for what we build on top of it. But this transitional year it comes with a bull's kicker.
Hurling lightning from the outer reaches, Urania has been comfortably ensconced in the little bull's territory since way back in 2018, which seems like several lifetimes ago now. You may sooner recall the constant zaps throughout Aquarius season this year as Urania reminded everything clustered in Aquaria that he courts revolution, invention and ch-ch-changes.
This is no longer just a square dance, although Saturn beaming his reconstruction rays from Aquaria will also flavour this year's Taurean elixir. But its most unpredictable ingredient will be the planet tasked with wake up calls, shock and awe. The Uranian rutbuster hidden in plain sight amidst a super Scorpy full moon and its ruler Pluto turning retrograde.
It is the beautiful balm of Taurus that invites us to assimilate change the only way it sticks: through your body and steady attention to it. The divine vessel that is our true home in this life never lies. Its constant communication, now moving in tandem with Merc's eclipse of our minds here, invites us to push our own outer reaches to create a spacious expansion anchored firmly in our values, needs and wants. Self care, but make it transformational.
The pleasure principle is unwavering compass here, grounded in the realm of the senses. If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. But when it does, aligned with our cosmic changemakers' gentle nudges and wild shoves, your brave new world arrives with a welcome nuzzle.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
~ Arundhati Roy
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2021