The full moon in 24°01’ of Taurus on Saturday, November 15th (3:28 p.m. CST) invites us to stay grounded and return to our center.
We are experiencing the waves of transformation. There have been many losses and endings, and our subsequent grief is teaching us about what matters most.
We are learning to hold space for what is decaying while simultaneously tending to new dreams.
Honor all that is ending. Nurture what you wish to sustain.
We reflect on our need for freedom and safety, noticing where we are longing to break free and shake off the past and explore new pathways. We are also able to recognize where we have become so comfortable that we are hindering our next stage of growth.
What at first may seem like a setback, will reveal different ways of perceiving and understanding.
It’s okay to grieve what has been lost.
It’s okay to feel tender and not know why.
It’s okay to feel angry and let it inspire you to make a revolutionary shifts.
These fresh insights help us to get more honest—not only about the realties we can now see, but also what we have sacrificed. This awareness supports us in aligning with the power to change.
“When we are courageous, we can do the unexpected and start to mold the world around a vision bigger than one produced by fear. Every inch of progress, every ounce of love, every truly meaningful action from here on out will happen through courage, not comfort.”
Prentis Hemphill
We hold space for radical honesty and hard realities.
We balance our long terms goals with short term obligations.
This is the final supermoon of the year, amplifying the emotional and energetic impact of this lunation.
This is also the final full moon while Pluto is in Capricorn—in our lifetime. Pluto moves into Aquarius on November 19th, just a few days after this lunation is exact.
Strengthening Our Self-Worth
This lunation relates back to the new moon in Taurus on May 7th, 2024. The past six months have been teaching us about our relationship to self-worth. What has been illuminated are the ways in which we are not valuing ourselves or not being valued in our relationships so that we can create new honor codes of value for ourselves. This lunation offers grounded insight and different ways of intuitively preserving our reality. We now have the ability to see things more clearly—as they actually are—and can take practical steps towards necessary change. Reflecting back to that time, how have we grown? What needs to be brought to completion?
“I speak of change not on the surface but in the depth—change in the sense of renewal”
James Baldwin
This cosmic weather is shaking up our foundations so that we can reflect, redefine, and rebuild our relationship to the material realm. What do we require in order to feel secure? Where have we fixated on something or someone that is steeped in our own projection of lack and insecurity? We are now able to identify and release any attachments that aren’t actually aligned with our values, especially those we have created from cultural conditioning. What is our relationship to consumption? Do we believe that our worth is defined by what we can own or possess? What are we striving to acquire to meet society’s definition of value? As we grow and develop more self-awareness, we learn that our worth is innate and cannot be measured in the material realm. To truly know ourselves and live our values is to create a life filled with soul connections and what nourishes and sustains us. This is very different than the current cultural model of consumption and accumulation. If we simplify our lives, we can recognize what we love and what makes our heart sing.
We learn to be content with less, trusting that we have what we need, and when we release what isn’t relevant, we create more space to blossom.
The Taurus – Scorpio Polarity
Taurus represents our relationship to security, the material realm, and our self-worth. Taurus energy is deeply connected to survival and the development that comes from noticing sensations and our engagement with the physical world. However, we can focus too much on comfort and pleasure as a way of avoiding pain and discomfort. Through the archetype of Taurus, we learn to trust our own sense of timing and rhythm, entering into that which is vibrationally resonant, and aligning with what is in harmony with our soul song. When we are rooted in self-connection and united with our values, we tend to care less about what others are doing and live from our own personal honor code. This creates the space to share our gifts with the world and nurture what we wish to sustain. The shadow of Taurus arises when we allow ourselves to remain too long in what is comfortable and familiar, keeping us from reaching our fullest potential. Another shadow aspect is when we over-identify with the material realm and associate what we possess as a reflection of our worth. This comes from a place of woundedness and tends to be derived from the prevalent, capitalist culture and not authentic yearning.
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
Eckhart Tolle
Scorpio is associated with our deepest psychological security, intimacy, shared resources, cycles of transformation, and ancestral patterns. This archetype is adept at sensing what is going on behind the scenes, and able to perceive other people’s inner motivations. Scorpio energy guides us into the underworld of the human psyche, where our darker, repressed emotions reside, in order to understand the shadow and our patterns in a more profound way. When we supress our emotions, they get shoved into the shadow. Through the archetype of Scorpio, we learn to connect to them in a way that transform us and work through what has been repressed. Scorpio guides us into a powerful stage of metamorphosis. When we resist our own evolution, we must learn from the process. Only by surrendering to the transformation that is unfolding, are we able to support our soul’s growth.
Working with this polarity, we are learning the delicate balance of when we need to hold on and when to fully let go. This lunation offers powerful medicine to free us from stagnation. We have the opportunity to liberate ourselves from past patterns and connections that were keeping us from respecting our self-worth and evolution. To do this, we must understand our attachments, clarify what matters most, and submit to the process of transmutation.
When working in harmony, this polarity prompts us to live a life that is built from self-regard and self-love. We connect to our emotional body in a radically honest way and allow our emotions to guide us inward to a greater understanding and awareness of ourselves and come into an acceptance of the vulnerability of being human. Through this process we expand our relationship to security within ourselves so that we can share more of our gifts with the world and allow ourselves to build sustainable resources by owning our creativity.
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself”
Michel de Montaigne
This lunation guides us to a fresh understanding of what it means to create abundance in our life and how to work with the resources we already have in a way that is innovative, insightful, unique, and necessary.
Our Embodied Foundation
This lunation calls us back into our bodies and emphasizes the importance of being fully rooted in self-connection. We have more awareness around where we have become untethered. The painful reality of the collective shadow that has been activated is much more evident, and it is necessary to understand not only what we must accept from the world around us, but also what we must reject.
There is much work ahead that requires us to be grounded and centered in ourselves, allowing us to be present to nurture our community.
It is essential to know what we need to heal and what gifts we can offer to the collective at a time where our embodied heart and light are vital. This is an important time to foster soul connections, reconnect with those who align with our values and who share our vision of the world that we long to create. Love and respect are intimately tied to what relationships will stand the test of time. How we honor our own rhythm, self-care routines, and shadow integration is crucial to sustain us in this long-term transformation.
Our healing requires that we come back to an embodied and centered place and to understand what it feels like to be safe while we are moving through these big changes. We must listen deeply to what is in harmony with our next stages of growth. Where we feel lack, requires our presence, patience and nurturing to tend to new seeds.
Our soul knows the blueprints from which to re-build. Feel the foundation.
“In order to heal the scarcity wound—created by the lack of nurturing both in our families and in our culture—we must learn to become the loving mother to ourselves that we never had. This ‘remothering’ is the ongoing practice, tremendously helped by a mentor, of learning to care for your body’s needs, validating and expressing your feelings (even if they’re unpopular), holding healthy boundaries, supporting your life choices, and most of all—being welcoming towards all that is yet unsolved in your heart.”
Toko-pa Turner
The Invitation
This full moon initiates an expansion of our capacity for self-worth. It encourages us to release old patterns, relationships, and ways of being that have not come from a place of value. Once we do this, we can create a life that truly allows us to thrive and blossom where we are planted and to be fully nourished from what we create and offer the world.
It is important during this time to remember that life is cyclical—as one door closes another one appears. Honor where we are in this transformation cycle, allowing whatever is dying to be shed, and feel what longs to be birthed through us.
When we allow what we are grieving and releasing to transmute and take new forms, we can carve new pathways for us to begin again.
Stacy! You always write the most amazing things. I’m so excited every time I see your newsletter come in. Both me and my daughter find this very resident in our life for very different reasons. Thanks for doing such a great job on these articles.
Beautiful as always, Stacy. Thank you.