New Moon in Taurus: wisdom in simplicity

Taurus New Moon 2025

The New Moon rises beneath the steady gaze of Taurus, the Bull, on 27th April. As a fixed Earth sign ruled by Venus, Taurus offers us grounding, sensuality, and a gentle strength steeped in timeless wisdom. This lunation invites us to pause, reconnect with the Earth beneath our feet, and root deeply into the present moment. This is not the time for words but for deep inner connection, silence and stillness.

Taurus teaches us to trust our inner knowing, even if we don’t know how we know things. In a world dominated by logic and reason (and there’s certainly a place for that), Taurus reminds us that some of our deepest truths and best decisions, come from gut feelings, instinct and intuition. They come from the marrow-deep wisdom that lives in our bones and our ancestral wisdom. Taurus reminds us that wisdom emerges in silence, and forms the quiet whispers in our hearts.

As the New Moon retreats into shadow, it encourages us to exhale, return to the earth beneath our feet, and reconnect with presence in a world that rarely pauses. We are being called back to our centre, invited to sit beneath our metaphorical cork trees, like Ferdinand the bull, to breathe, smell the flowers and simply ‘be’. Not every answer lies in action, some are revealed in the mysteries of stillness and quiet knowing.

The knack, is to remember how to listen!

Where do you need more quiet and stillness in your life?

If you listened to your inner wise old bull whispering in your heart, what would it tell you?

Where could you cultivate a deeper connection to your body?

How could you cultivate a deeper connection to the Earth?

Planting seeds of stability

Each New Moon is a potent moment to plant seeds of intention. After the bold and pioneering surge of Aries, Taurus asks us to pause, breathe and to grow roots and ground.

After the previous work of reflecting, shedding, releasing, dreaming and pioneering, Taurus brings us down from the conceptual and into the physical. It invites us to pause and take time to properly integrate the lessons we have learned, ensuring we move forward with greater wholeness and unity. Its role in our cosmic evolution is to anchor growth and ensure our foundations are steady and enduring. It reminds us dreams are built slowly, with patience and persistence, so they have strong foundations that are meant to last.

Working with Taurus we return to what really matters most to us: the things, people, and truths we truly want to invest in and nurture long-term. The seeds that Taurus whispers to us to plant in fertile soil, are the ones that support these revelations, that will ultimately bring us to a place of deeper purpose and meaning, whatever that looks like to us.

At the same time, Taurus asks us to reflect on what brings us a sense of security on every level, long-term and in our daily lives. Stability. Comfort. Connection. These aren't signs of stagnation, they are signs of rooting down so we can rise. In a world where security often feels fleeting, Taurus tells us it’s okay to value comfort and stability, even while we face challenge. Persistence and perseverance builds resilience when balanced, provided it doesn’t tip into stubborn entrenchment.

The unknown is challenging and in the face of it, It’s easy to hold on to what's familiar, whatever form this takes, even when we know what no longer serve us. As a Cancerian, I know this deeply. Cancerians are often tenaciously clinging on with their pincers, long past when they should, and when others would, have let go.

In a similar way, Taurus can hold on and avoid change and upheaval. As anyone who knows a Taurian will tell you, no matter how hard you push and shove a Taurus, once its feet are planted it will not budge, it is like an immovable mountain. While in once sense Taurus energy carries a caution: comfort can become complacency and stubbornness can see us becoming stuck, it also offers a counterpoint: the luxury of time to reflect on the rituals, values, and inherited wisdom that continue to nourish us. Essentially, as we might expect by a planet ruled by Venus, we need balance.

So, this New Moon we might consider where we need to ground and cultivate roots and security, or where we maybe avoiding facing something or resisting change. Yet, Taurus also specialises in knowing what ‘smells right’, what’s nourishing. We want to do great work, climb a metaphorical mountain to purpose and meaning, work towards greater financial and emotional security, or even know which relationships and experiences are right for us; this is the realm of Taurus.

With this New Moon, ask yourself:

What traditions truly support the life you are building?

What brings you a sense of security? And how can you work with this without becoming stuck?

What do you love and value, what matters most to you?

Where might you be holding on too tightly? What is the cost of this?

What does it mean to you to root down in order to rise up?

What seeds of intention do you want to commit to moving forward? What ‘smells right’ to you?

Wisdom of simplicity

Taurus wisdom embodies simplicity. It offers an antidote to our human tendency to overcomplicate everything. While some stress is unavoidable to a certain degree, we can become addicted to drama, and to the stress that runs almost like a constant daily backdrop. Even self-development becomes a constant striving for transformation and change,, as we buy in to the narrative it is not ok to be who we are and where we are.

Taurus reminds us that what is meaningful is often simple, which is embodied in the words of Steven Forrest, “letting life be what it is, without embellishment or unnecessary complication”. This wisdom cultivates being a human ‘being’, rather than a human ‘doing’. Simple. Yet, if you are anything like me, so amazingly hard.

Steven speaks of walking forward with one foot in wisdom and one in peace. It is ok to find the journey to wisdom and transformation challenging, yet Taurus reminds us, following a transformative or stressful time, what is really needed is a period of peace and rest. One foot stepping forward in wisdom, followed by one step of peace. I cannot be the only one here to realise that I have been stepping out with only one foot, and it wasn’t the peace one!

We are conditioned to continually push forward, expending effort, constantly moving and often increasing our stress. Essentially, conditioned human ‘doing’. Yet, normally it is within resting and integrating; the peace time, that what we have been through crystallises and deepens into wisdom. Up-till-then, what we have is experiences and information, not yet personal truth.

The Taurian New Moon is a time to remember that peace is not a destination, or something to be acquired. Peace is a way of being, rooted in calmness and attuned to the rhythms of nature. This is not a time for rushing or grand declarations, but for listening to the whispers of our own inner voice. It is not a time for complications, just simplicity.

Transformation does not have to be big, loud or disruptive, despite continuous striving often confusing noise with progress. Profound change can blossom quietly. The deepest truths can emerge in stillness, through rest and reflection. It can emerge in honouring the rituals and wisdom we already hold.

Ruled by Venus, Taurus honours the sacredness of the senses and the wisdom of the body. From the feel of the earth beneath bare feet to the quiet delight of flowers in bloom, Taurus helps us remember the joy of living slowly and intentionally. So, if nothing else this New Moon, keep it simple, keep it intentional, indulge your senses, and remember your foot of peace.

New Moon reflections:

Where could you allow yourself permission to slow up, slow down and just enjoy and be present in the moment?

Where do you allow an addiction to stress, drama and overcomplication, to take the steering wheel and drive? How could you embrace the wisdom of simplicity?

How could you reconnect with the wisdom of nature and the wisdom of your body?

How could you step forward with a foot of peace?

Walk in beauty

Taurus doesn’t rush. In fact it simply invites us to calm down. Not in the vein of the plethora of slogans ‘calm down and carry on’, but to actively practice calmness, allowing peace and tranquillity into our hearts so wisdom takes root and flourishes. The influence of Venus encourages us within this calmness, to reconnect with our senses and with beauty, balance and harmony.

Finding contentment in not only seeing our seeds of desire slowly growing, but in paying attention to the beauty of each moment as it unfolds. Reconnecting us to the beauty and balance of living in the moment, trusting that abundance is nurtured through patience, persistence and devotion to what matters. In this way, Venus also helps us recover from stress. Leading us back to joy, creativity, and contentment through beauty and harmony when things become challenging. It supports a foot in peace.

Many of us not only seek peace in beauty, in re-finding our centre in places or environments we consider aesthetically beautiful and nurturing, but we find deep healing too. So, this New Moon, take time to nourish every part of you, to stop and watch the wonder unfolding around you, to consider the beauty in your life and in your world.

The power of beauty is embodied within the Navajo tradition of ‘walking in beauty’. A way to live in right relationship with ourselves, nature, others, our spirit and the seen and unseen world. To move in balance. To honour our rhythms. To live in harmony. It aligns deeply with the Taurus way of being. The life-affirming Navajo prayer, shared below, is a sacred reminder to walk in beauty and in truth. Read with reverence. Let its rhythm settle in your bones.

Working with beauty you might ask:

What self-care practice could you undertake that would deeply nourish you?

How might you walk in beauty? How could you create more beauty around you?

What could you add in your environment that would spark joy?

Final thoughts

This New Moon may not feel entirely peaceful. It forms a T-square with Mars in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius which may cause tensions. A call for heart felt action and transformation versus time for grounding. This contrast between inner stillness and external pressure might be felt strongly, even as Taurus whispers, ‘be still’.

Yet, Taurus teaches us to channel our energy wisely. Even amidst tension, we can pause, plant with care, and listen to the wise bull within. Let the seeds you plant now reflect your truest values and deepest desires. If you feel pulled in multiple directions, slow down. Let beauty guide you. Let simplicity hold you. Let time be your ally. If you hit a wall, listen inward as your inner bull might be preparing you for a breakthrough.

And if all else fails, sit under your cork tree. Smell the flowers just like Ferdinand. Let the world turn without you for a moment. That is Taurus magic.

Navajo beauty prayer:

In beauty I walk

With beauty before me I walk

With beauty behind me I walk

With beauty above me I walk

With beauty around me I walk

It has become beauty again

Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me

I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.

I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.

I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.

I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.

I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.

In beauty all day long may I walk.

Through the returning seasons, may I walk.

On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.

With dew about my feet, may I walk.

With beauty before me may I walk.

With beauty behind me may I walk.

With beauty below me may I walk.

With beauty above me may I walk.

With beauty all around me may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.

My words will be beautiful.