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Mars will form his last exact opposition to Pluto on April 27, the day before the Taurus New Moon on April 28, at 5.31 am and 7 Taurus 46’, which will be in the 8th degree of the sign. The Sabian symbol is “A sleigh on land uncovered by snow”, that is future oriented imagination. The value of anticipating and preparing for expectable conditions.

The Sun and Moon will be applying by conjunction to asteroid Circe, the shapeshifting witch from Homer’s Odyssey. She had the ability to turn people into animals, in order to protect herself, using herbal concoctions. This came in handy when she was forced to live on an isolated island often visited by sailors.

The lunation will be closely opposing the asteroid Hekate, powerful Goddess of Transformation and the Crossroads in the sign of Scorpio. This has a general feeling around needing to change, in order to proceed further with your journey through life following on from the lengthy Mars Retrograde period.

The opposing bodies will form a T-Square to the asteroid Urania, Goddess of the Starry Sky in Aquarius. There will also be a wider square to Mars in Leo, indicating that urgent action will need to be taken to keep your life on a safe and steady trajectory.

With the Sun and Moon in the sign of Taurus, the energy focus is always on:

  • Creating security and stability, protecting your physical interests
  • Practical goals, being logical and methodical, patient and careful
  • Working hard, balancing the budget, ensuring a steady income
  • Physical comfort, indulging the five senses, sex
  • Family and peaceful, harmonious relationships
  • Losing weight, embarking on healthy exercise and diets
  • Meeting single-minded, persistent, commitments

The area most aligned with the position of the New Moon can be best gleaned from your natal horoscope chart, however if you only know your Sun Sign, then affirmations around the areas indicated on the next page are likely to be the most powerful, but some adjustment may be required to the life areas indicated:

Taurus-New-Moon-Table