Welcome to the Taurus Full Moon, the time in the lunar calendar when the spotlight is on money and resource, pleasure and sensuality, material stability and security. Taurus teaches us to slow down and enjoy the physicality of life. But can also make us aware of what we’re missing in order to feel stable and secure. The full moon is exact on October 31, 2020 at 10:50 am EDT, 8 degrees Taurus/Scorpio. That’s 7:50 am Los Angeles, 2:50 pm London, 1:50 am Sydney on November 1, and 3:50 am Auckland.
If the full moon is in Taurus, then the Sun must be in Scorpio. These are two signs that traverse life and death, permanence and impermanence. They complement each other. And the Taurus Moon is a reminder that while things may die in Scorpio’s autumnal energies, they will be reborn again in the Taurus’s spring. (As a Scorpio, I have a special fondness for Taurus and the interplay between these two signs. Despite Scorpio’s instincts to destroy, Taurus sort of talks Scorpio off the ledge with a, “Hey, maybe we should just get something to eat instead.”)
Full moons create a sense of immediacy. They are dynamic and often catalysts for events. Under a Taurus Full Moon, we’re feeling a push to focus on money and spending, to make investments and purchases. We’re trying to create more material stability, from tending to the basics to making future plans. It’s real estate and property, assets and goods, possession and ownership. But what I love most about Taurus is that it’s the necessary fertility needed for life to flourish.
What’s different about this full moon is it’s conjunction to Uranus in Taurus. Think back to May 2018. That was the month that Uranus entered Taurus for the first time since the 1930s and early 1940s. If Uranus is the planet of shake-ups, revolutions, and reinventions, then May 2018 was the start of a seven year period of completely reinventing our relationship with money, value, stability, and resource. (Uranus re-entered Taurus in March 2019 after a retrograde, which was another big step.)
Something began two and a half years ago. Although it wasn’t as clear at the time, and we’ve had periodic check-ins with this narrative, today’s Taurus Full Moon is a major milestone in this ongoing story. Maybe something is now abundantly clear. Something has to change, reinvent, and awaken if it hasn’t already. Events, as a result, may come out of the blue. There may be surprises or happy accidents. (Not sure what area of your life is being affected? Read Uranus in Taurus: Sign by Sign.)
The thing about Uranus is that it’s a planet that doesn’t abide by us playing small or sticking it out in a job that we hate or a relationship that doesn’t fit. It doesn’t care for us being something that we’re not. And what it has a habit of doing is removing the things that are getting in the way, even if that feels shocking, chaotic, and sudden. But, on the other hand, Uranus’s energies can awaken, open us to radically new ways of being, and liberate us from the past.
Venus, the ruler of the full moon, is in Libra, which gives us a double dose of Venus and its tendency to want to enjoy beauty, pleasure, design, and relationship. So some of this revolutionary energy may spill over into our relationships, changing, challenging, and shifting how we connect to one another. It may demand a new currency or a new value system, too.
Lastly, as much as we’re getting a push to make a break from the past and to open up to something new, we may feel the pain or ache of something quite old. Venus opposes Chiron in Aries, which reveals that there’s something about this full moon that demands our bravery and courage. Do we have it within us to make a necessary change? Will we be safe? All we do know is that whatever this change is it’s long overdue.