New Moon in Taurus

​Welcome back to the Essential Astrocast. I am your host, Veronica Perretti, and this is the podcast you listen to when you wanna know what's going on in the heavens, so that you can dictate your fate down here on Earth.

The new moon that we have been waiting for, I am recording this on Sunday. the New Moon in Taurus is upon us. So I'm recording this on Sunday, April 27th, and the new Moon and Taurus occurred at seven degrees Taurus and 47 minutes, and it occurred at 3:31 PM Eastern Time this afternoon. So I'm recording this at night. I just put my son down and I wanted to make sure that I got to my computer to record this because. This New Moon is really, really, really a good one for setting your intentions.

Now, new moons and Taurus are always a good new Moon for setting your intention. Because the moon is exalted in Taurus, that means that the moon is in one of its favorite places. It's in the place where it feels. Really powerful. You can think of it as the moon being this special honored guest in the sign of Taurus because the moon rules cancer of course. But when the moon is in Taurus, it's like we're rolling out the red carpet for the moon.

And the moon in Taurus is answering to the ruler of Taurus, which is Venus. And of course the Moon and Venus are the two. Planets of the main planets that we work with in astrology, they're the two that embody the divine feminine. So of course they get along and work together, Venus is in Pisces, and Venus is exalted in Pisces. So Venus is in the sign where the red carpet is ruled out for her. So she's feeling like the honored guest.

She's feeling all powerful, Because Venus is in Pisces, the time of this new Moon and Taurus. It is a particularly nice new Moon for setting your intentions. And it's kind of the new moon we've been waiting for because it's the fresh start that we've been waiting for all year.

And that is because if you've been listening to me for a while, you know that this whole year, the first. More than a quarter of the year is really defined or was really defined by the retrogrades. We had Mars retrograde when we entered 2025. We had venous retrograde and then we had Mercury join them with a retrograde. So luckily, mercury just exited. Its. Post retrograde shadow yesterday, Mars is getting close to exiting. Its post retrograde shadow.

So of course none of these planets are retrograde. Now I'm just getting you the information on the shadow period because there's always a shadow period before a retrograde and after retrograde. But there are no planets retrograde right now. All of the inner planets, personal planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars. Saturn and Jupiter they're all moving direct. Everybody is moving direct right now. Even the outer planets are moving direct, although Pluto will retrograde on May 4th.

But as I have said many times before, when outer planets retrograde, it's not nearly as big a deal because they spend half the year retrograde, we feel them most potently when they retrograde. So toward the end of this week as we move towards Sunday the fourth, you might feel that presence of Pluto a little bit more acutely. most importantly, all of our inner planets, all the planets.

Right now are direct, and that means that things are really starting to take off, that we're starting to feel that momentum builds and we've been feeling a build for weeks because Mars has been direct and while he's been slow to get back up to a quicker pace that he's comfortable with, he's finally getting there. And we feel or have felt the momentum building as Mars had continued forward. Once he clears his shadow on the second that's gonna happen on Friday.

we're really gonna feel things taking off. So this is a new moon that I highly recommend putting aside some time to do some journaling, some dreaming, some thinking, some putting those intentions, putting what you wanna manifest onto paper.

Because Taurus is an earth sign. Taurus is the fixed earth sign, making it the earth ist earth sign. It really likes things to be tangible. It likes things to be in the material realm, so some of the themes and keywords that we can associate with the sign of Taurus, steadfast, reliable, practical, sensual, determined, loyal, grounded, persistent. Stubborn, pleasure seeking, security focused, deliberate, methodical, comfort loving, dependable, luxurious. They love luxury. They're stable.

Sometimes they're traditional. and they can be really devoted and they can be nurturing. So the thing about this new moon is that what you plant, the seeds that you put into the soil. The seeds that you, Throw up into the universe, if you will, are going to have legs. They're going to have staying power because that's the nature of Taurus. Taurus likes to be in things for the long haul. It is steady, it is reliable, it is predictable. It stays the course.

So I implore you to do a new moon ritual. I will be doing mine tonight. with the New Moon and Taurus, I am going to include some, journal prompts that you can use in my email newsletter. If you're not on the email newsletter, this is a great invitation telling you to join. So go over to my website, veronica perretti.com. Right there on the homepage, you can join the newsletter, once a week. I send you the latest podcast and some information about what's going on in the sky.

And this one, I'm gonna include some journal prompts for this new moon so that you can set your own intention. So with that, what is going on with as we get into this new moon? So why does it feel like a fresh start?

So we have finished eclipse season. It is true. that last. full Moon that we just had. The Full Moon and Libra that I talked about on the last podcast, or last two podcasts was on April 12th. That was the official end of Eclipse season, but we had Mercury with the North Note at that time, and Saturn and Venus traveling close together approaching that north node. eclipses are always linked to the nodes. New moons and full moons that occur close to the nodes of fate are when we have eclipses.

on that full moon, while it was the official end of eclipse season, because it was a loo nation, the loo nation that followed the last eclipse, kicks out eclipse season, we still have these planets mingling with that north node. And so that makes things feel a little eclipse. It makes us kind of continuing to stay in that, in that energy feeling like, oh gosh, there's something that has to happen. There's something that I've gotta do. Everything. Feeling a sense of intensity, a sense of fatness.

and of course, thankfully this past Thursday we had Venus and Saturn join together. And they were close to that north node. They have their conjunction, and then they moved on. They moved on from the north node. And I don't know about you, but. I felt such a sense of release this past week, having Venus and Saturn, thanks to Venus's retrograde. They met up three times. The first time was January 18th, the second time was April 7th, and the third time was this past Thursday, April 24th.

And I don't know about you, but Thursday I felt this sense of freedom. I just felt like. Such a weight was lifted. Venus and Saturn together, particularly with that north node, can make make us really hard on ourselves. And it can make us really doubt ourselves and feel like we're not good enough. It can make us really critical of ourselves, critical of, of our bodies. 'cause it's Venus.

so I don't know about you, but I felt a sense of freedom on Thursday and thankfully so we also had this huge release on Saturday, April 26th, when.

Mars opposed Pluto for its third and final time now, this is a big one throughout the week and it's kind of wide with this new moon, but it's still present. The sun was squaring. Mars and Pluto and Mars and Pluto are opposite one another. That creates what we call a T Square, which is known for being a source of friction or a source of frustration or irritation. We have been living with Mars opposite Pluto, which in and of itself is a source of frustration, anger.

Resentments, power struggles, desire for control, feeling controlled. It is a very intense, anytime you've got Mars and Pluto talking to one another, it's one of the more intense aspects that we work with or that we experience as humans. So we've had this in the ether back and forth since October. So back in October, if you bring yourself back there, we were in the heat of election season. We had Mars opposite Pluto. We knew that this was gonna be super intense time.

They officially opposed one another. They were approaching for a while, but they officially opposed one another on November 3rd. Thanks to Mars retrograde pattern, they opposed one another January 3rd. And now this is the third and final hit of this that occurred on Saturday, April 26th. It was the same day that Mercury exited his retrograde shadow as well.

So there's a great feeling of release right before this new moon because these very heavy, heavy hitter transits that we've been working with for a long time, thanks to the retrograde patterns of Venus and Mars. Are finally, finally over. We do have one more coming up this week. I'll get to it in a moment, but it's has a little bit of a fresher feeling for a few different reasons, but put a pin in that we'll talk about venous conjunct Neptune in a moment.

Having these two very heavy, intense transits that often can make us feel like we are being hemmed in like we are being. Put up against resistance. They both have their own ways of feeling like we're pushing the boulder up the hill. Whether that is the way you're talking to yourself because you're being self judgmental or self-critical, whether that is because there's some sort of constraints being put on. You could be both of those things. Venus, Saturn, or Mars, Pluto.

it could be you desiring to have more control than you do. That's Mars, Pluto. It could be someone else trying to exert their control and their power over you. Very common for Mars, Pluto. So all of these things add up to this has been a really tough time. So if you are sitting there saying, God, that sounds really tough. Yeah, you've been living with this in one form or another. Since October, and then the venous Saturn since January.

So we've been working with really hard transits and we've been working with them in this, on and off again, way for months. And Venus and Mars are two of the personal planets. They're the planets that are closest to Earth. So whatever happens with Venus and Mars, we're going to feel it really intensely. I call these the planets of relating. Venus shows us what we value, how we wanna be valued, what we love, how we wanna be loved. Mars shows us what we desire.

Mars shows us how to go after what we desire and get it, and Venus teaches us about allowing ourselves to receive what we desire and knowing that we're worthy. So these are some of the fundamental things of being human, understanding what we want, being able to get what we want, and then receiving what we want. And this is the basics. These are the security items like food, water, but they're also the.

More complex stuff like love and feeling cared for, and feeling like you are living your purpose and feeling like your life has purpose and that your life has meaning. So this is big stuff that we've been working with and unpacking with these transits. So hopefully some things have come into crystallization for you. Some things have. Gotten a little clearer, particularly with the help of the eclipses.

They tend to be like a catalyst for taking whatever's going on and then blowing it up, making it really super duper clear. So now that we're past a lot of this very intense stuff, I've just spent the first. 15 minutes of this podcast talking about what we've been working with. We now have this new moon to help us experience this clean slate of, okay, now I've gotten through this really hard period. What do I wanna manifest? What do I wanna create next? And.

I work with a technique called Lunar Families, and I mentioned it in the last podcast, and it, it's a way of working with the moon cycle that's a little bit longer or a lot bit longer. So the idea is that this new moon, it matches with a. Quarter moon that will occur in nine months and that paves the way for a full moon. That will occur nine months after that.

So 18 months from now, we will have a full moon in October of 2026, and that Full Moon and Taurus, if you subscribe to this technique of looking at Lunar families will. Be the apex point of this new moon. So you might wanna consider, what do I wanna be creating and manifesting that will come to fruition in October of 2026? And I know that seems so far away, but I promise you with this technique, when I look back at the things that I set intentions for in my journal.

Is always so profound to me, how they play out over these timelines. So maybe in the fall I'll do a workshop on Lunar families. I think it's a really cool technique and it's something I use a lot personally, but back to this full new Moon where we are, the new moon's happening at Seven Degrees Taurus, as I mentioned. it is a particularly potent and auspicious new moon because, the moon is in its sign of exaltation answering to Venus, the ruler of Taurus in its sign of exaltation.

it is of course creating a wide T square to that Mars opposite Pluto, which I mentioned. So if that is something you wanna consider, the release point of this T Square would be Seven Degrees Scorpio. And so I thought about that too, and I thought, okay, well one of the ways to work with this New Moon, knowing that it has this wide T Square to this very intense opposition that we've been working with is how are you gonna release? Well, you're going to let go.

You're going to, release whatever trauma or burden you've been carrying with you. That is the essence of Scorpio, the release point in Scorpio. If you've been feeling stuck, you wanna move toward those Scorpio themes. And those themes are following your passion. Diving really deep into something, following your intuitive hunch, acknowledging your desires. Those are some ways to honor that Scorpio part of your chart. So anyway, those are some ideas of how to move work with a new moon.

I'm going to include some, some journal prompts in my newsletter, as I said, so make sure that you are signed up for that and then, you'll get those.

Uranus is also in the sign of Taurus, and it's been there for quite some time since 2017, 18. So Uranus is actually trining and sextiling the nodes, which means that Uranus is helping us make the changes because Uranus teaches us about adaptability Taurus is not a sign that likes to adapt. It likes to stay the course. As I said, it likes to dig its heels in and keep the status quo going 'cause that's what feels safe to Taurus.

So Uranus being in this harmonious, flowing aspect to the north node and the south node, it does give us a little bit of help to invite in change. With this New Moon, particularly in the parts of your chart that we're working with, which are the fixed signs, the parts of your chart, that House Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius. Okay? So make sure that you do your ritual. I am trying to get this up to you tonight. I'm recording this on Sunday.

And I don't wanna make it a super long podcast 'cause I wanna be able to get it up to you quickly so that you know, to do your ritual tonight or tomorrow. So tomorrow being Monday the 28th, Tuesday and Wednesday the 29th and 30th, they're not as good days to do the ritual, but if you wanna wait, you can wait till May 1st, which is ine. Or Friday May 2nd because those days the moon is gonna be in cancer.

So with intention setting around the new moon, the rule of thumb is it's always most powerful within the first 24, 48 hours, but of course you can do it within the first week. As the moon is waxing, my rule is whenever you feel in alignment with what you want to create, that is the moment because that's the moment that you personally are feeling in alignment, and maybe there's something that is activating your chart that is supporting that.

I always say you dictate your own fate, but since you're listening to this podcast, my assumption is that you probably wanna know when the universe is gonna be, you know, pushing you from behind. So the best time with this new moon is of course, within that first 48 hours. the moon is gonna go into Gemini on Tuesday. 2:34 AM Eastern time and the Gemini moon, it's gonna be a little cranky, so it's not gonna be the best time to set your intentions.

So then wait, if that's the case, until May 1st, May 2nd, when the moon is in her home sign of cancer. Okay. And then she'll be a little happier. So that is my recommendation, just because this New Moon is so potent and really giving us. The fresh slate that we've been craving all year that we've been dying for. It feels like we've all been stuck and moving through molasses and just really spinning our wheels, trying to get that forward momentum, and this new moon really kicks that off.

So the other big thing that's happening this week is that

On April 30th, Venus will enter Aries again. So if you recall, she retrograded way back when, and she retrograded at 10 degrees Aries, she retrograded on March 2nd, and then she's stationed direct April 13th. And she's been working her way through those late degrees of Pisces. So as I've mentioned the past few weeks, late degrees Pisces, early degrees Aries, lots of action this year. So much is happening in that part of your chart. It will continue to happen.

but that late degrees of Pisces, we've really been releasing because Pisces is not only. The sign associated with letting go, it is associated with letting go because it's the last sign of the Zodiac. Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac. Aries is spring equinox. It's the rebirth. So the spring equinox is truly the new year. astrologically. So Pisces, those planets being at those late degrees, Pisces are really asking us to let go of something.

We we're all being asked to release something that's probably been really valuable to us and make space for what's new because so much of what's happening this year is happening in the early degrees of Aries, which means that. The era that we are entering into with all of these outer planets moving. and with Saturn and Neptune, both being in early Aries this year, we're entering a new era. We are really, truly, we don't know what's around the bend.

We are truly preparing for the unknown and One of my favorite quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, or my favorite quote from him is, take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step. And that is the essence of the astrology that we're living in right now. So with that, Venus is entering Aries again because she stationed to retrograde in Aries. And so she's back. she will reenter Aries on Wednesday.

Venus will leave her post retrograde shadow on May 16th, so that's coming as well. But this will be her third and final time for now meeting up with Neptune. they first joined on February 1st at 27 degrees Pisces. Then as Venus was retrograde, they met up at 29 degrees Pisces on March 27th, and now they're meeting up for a third time. Neptune is now an Aries, we talked about it a few weeks ago. So they are meeting up at one degree Aries. Neptune has already gotten to one degree.

this is the first time in our lifetimes that we will experience Venus and Neptune joining Conjoins in Aries. because, you know, Neptune has not been in Aries before in our lifetime until about a month ago. It takes about 165 years for Neptune to go around the Zodiac. So every time that one of these personal planets. Joins with Neptune, we have an experience that we've never had before. Just a couple weeks ago, we had Mercury.

He was the first one he joined with Neptune and Aries, and that was a moment where I think a lot of people felt like they could find their words again and speak what they. Really meant and speak from the heart with clarity. And now Venus will join Neptune and Neptune tends to make things foggy, but Neptune, in Aries, we're gonna see what that looks like because Neptune in Pisces is where he's at home. Neptune, in Aries, it's a whole different ball game.

Aries is a sign that is clear, it's concise, Zero fluff. It just puts its head down and goes forward. You know, it doesn't look to the left. It doesn't look to the right. It's not worried what anyone else is doing. I mean, we're talking about the collective. We're not necessarily talking about your natal Aries placements collectively. Aries is a go for it sign. Right? So Neptune and Aries means that we are, I. Going to have our beliefs.

We are going to have our faith, and we are going to have our values and our ideals, and we're gonna go for it based on those things. Neptune rules our relationship with faith, along with the planet Jupiter. it is the subconscious. It is where we go when we dream, where we go, when we meditate, where we go, when we sleep. So, yeah, we'll see what that feels like. But Venus and Neptune joining at one degree, Aries is going to be exciting.

I think Venus and Aries in general is, she doesn't mess around. She sees what she wants and she goes for it. So when she joins with Neptune, I think she's gonna get real clear about what she's going for. And she's gonna make it happen. So pay attention on Wednesday to how you're feeling. and that's it.

Those are the main things that are going on this week. I am super excited to see how this new Moon plays out for all of us, over the next few weeks to feel how it, everything feels with the momentum kicking back up. it'll be amazing to see what this new moon. Plants and seeds for us that comes to fruition over the next month, but over the next nine months, the next 18 months, et cetera. I really encourage you to do your Newman ritual. And that's it.

That's why I wanted to make sure I got this out to you. I am opening up a few slots for readings, so if you want to get a reading with me, make sure that you are on the newsletter and you will always know when those spots open up. I open up spots once a quarter now, and they're very limited. So make sure that you go to veronica perretti.com and sign up for my email community. Cosmic conversation will be coming up in a few weeks, so you can always go to the events page of my website.

And sign up for that. It is entirely free. I love chatting with you. We have a beautiful community that comes together every couple of weeks on Mondays at 5:00 PM Eastern. And, we just talk about what's going on in the sky and what's going on with our own lives, how we're feeling, the energy, and sometimes we look at the charts of notable people in the public. So that's what I got for you.

I'm gonna get this up for you so that you can enjoy your new Moon ritual, and I hope to talk to you next week. Bye.