TAURUS NEW MOON - 16 May 2026
This is a powerful Moon for manifesting what we need to sustain and nourish us on an emotional, physical and spiritual level. A Taurus New Moon can help us to be clear about what we need in order to feel safe, secure, solid and rooted. It can help us to recognise what in our lives truly holds meaning and value, and what is surplus to requirements. Taurus relates to money, resources, possessions, survival, the law of attraction, self-worth, self-sufficiency, sustainability, the earth and our relationship with our body. It is the part of us that wants to feel safe, secure and supported by Mother Earth. It is the part of us that knows how to take care of our own needs. It is earthy, stable, grounded, solid and unwaveringly loyal. It is something that we can rely on, that isn’t going anywhere in a hurry.
We have the Sun, Moon, Ceres and Mercury all gathering together in Taurus for this New Moon, with Ceres exactly the same degree as the Sun and Moon. Ceres is the goddess of nourishment, nurturing, motherhood, caretaking and our connection to the earth and its cycles. She also has a connection to grief and attachment, as she lost her daughter, Persephone, to Hades, the God of the Underworld. As such, we may become more aware of where we might have an unhealthy attachment to a person or situation, and could be called to do something about it. Both Ceres and Taurus can hold onto things too tightly at times, when it may be healthier to let them go. Persephone did seem to enjoy having some breathing room and space from the smothering love of her mother when she was with Hades! This Taurus Moon could bring lessons in how to love without possessing or over attaching, and knowing when to let go.
This Moon could also help us to recognise what we need to support and nourish us. With Mercury involved, we could have practical, no nonsense conversations whereby we vocalise our needs and clarify our values, and we could also contemplate our habits around food, comfort and security. This could be a good time to look at our relationship with our body and seek to change any unhealthy habits around food. We may also make decisions around how we earn a living, our money situation and any other resources we need in order to survive and thrive. A Taurus Moon calls for us to stabilise, build and plant seeds in fertile soil so that we are able to manifest all that we need to feel safe in the world.
Taurus likes the peaceful life, free of drama and intensity, so this could be a good time to slow down, connect to our body, feel the support of the earth and enjoy the sensual delights, such as music, nature, food and touch. With Ceres involved, issues around agriculture, weather, housing, natural resources, food, land and the environment could come to the forefront of our attention on a collective level. On a personal level, it could help to think of ourselves as a tender plant in the soil. What “nutrients” do we need in order to feel safe enough to grow?
Mars and Chiron the Wounded Healer are joining forces in Aries, exactly conjunct on the day of this New Moon. Chiron has been very prevalent in the past few Moons, and this one is no exception. We could be called to be very brave and be very honest about what we need. We could also find that our core wounds are activated, which could make us more defensive, irritable, angry or reactive than we might usually be. There could be a powerful healing around asserting and standing up for ourselves instead of staying small and avoiding bringing things up in order to keep the peace. Mars represents the Divine Masculine and the inner warrior that enables us to clearly state our needs, say “No” and set healthy boundaries. This transit could bring some healing around the masculine in our lives and could also call for us to be strong, take action and channel any anger or dissatisfaction we might feel into something constructive and healing.
Interestingly, Venus, the ruler of this Taurus Moon, is forming a helpful, supportive sextile to Mars and Chiron. This could bring some healing between the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine, which could greatly help our relationships. Venus in Gemini can also help lighten things up a bit, helping us to communicate kindly and stay open to other possibilities and points of view. Combined with Mars, it can help us to have some direct, honest, open, heartfelt conversations that manage to maintain some humour and don’t become too heavy. It can help us to be brave and bring things up that we might usually want to avoid, including expressing our needs and stating our boundaries and limits.
Venus in Gemini favours clear communication and likes relationships to feel free, open and light. This Moon could be an ideal time to have the courage to speak plainly about whatever may be bothering us in our relationships. Hopefully Venus can help to keep things light and loving, even if Mars in Aries may be a bit impulsive, rash and lacking in tact! Mars in Aries isn’t afraid to go after what it wants, while Venus is open to receiving. When Mars and Venus are healthy, healed and playing nicely with each other, the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine can support, empower and respect one another, helping one another to feel safe, loved and able to grow and be fully themselves. However, with Chiron sitting right next to Mars, we could experience the more challenging aspects of the masculine as they come up to be healed.
This sextile between Mars and Venus will be exact on Monday 18 May, although it will be very strong indeed during this Moon. It will culminate at 29° Gemini and Aries, which feels important, bringing a sense of completion and culmination. We may feel guided to face something, once and for all, rather than pussy footing around the issue. It is possible that we reach a conclusion and come to a decision that can free up some stagnant energy and bring relief. We could have some emotionally significant conversations that produce a much needed shift in our relationships and create clearer boundaries.
The Sabian symbol for this Moon, at 26° Taurus, feels very poignant: “A Spanish gallant serenades his beloved”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “The ritualisation of individual desires. At this level we see the play of collective values as they affect the individual person and indeed confirm his individuality by giving it a solid basis in a tradition. The individual is still attached to these group-values; he “belongs.” Nevertheless, this state is necessary for safe and secure sense of differentiation within an enfolding whole. Music and the culturally acceptable rituals of love are cultural products, yet each person can use them for the spontaneous fulfilment of his very own desires. This symbol reveals the individual human being making use of his personal status to find fulfilment and a sense of social identity. This is ROLE-PLAYING in its most enjoyable form.”
That is a very ardent and passionate Sabian symbol! The man is brave enough to pour his heart out, show his true feelings and state his intentions, which feels very much in keeping with this Venus Mars energy. It certainly does feel like this Moon is calling for us to get in touch with our needs and then have the courage to vocalise them. The Taurus part of us just wants to feel safe and secure, and can help us to recognise our core values and needs and to know our own worth. It is the Mars/Chiron conjunction, combined with Venus, that can help us to actually state these needs and desires, hopefully in a direct, calm and loving manner. There is much healing potential in this Moon if we are brave enough to be vulnerable, honest, direct and open about who we are and what we want.
Much Love
Amy
xoxo
Artwork by Danielle Caners
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