NEW MOON IN TAURUS ✨🌙♉🌱
April 27, 2025
“Not As It Was”
Each spring, the New Moon in Taurus offers us grounding, calm, stability, and the promise of reward. It’s the lunation that invites us to slow down, honor the body and the senses, connect with nature, and plant seeds of intention for abundance, fulfillment, and security.
Yet this year’s New Moon in Taurus is different.
As it moves through the intense crosscurrents of Mars and Pluto, it opens a powerful new cycle—one that challenges everything we once took for granted and shifts the very ground beneath our feet.
Taking place on April 27 at 21:30 Greece time, at 7°46’ of Taurus—the most earthy, fertile, and stable sign of the zodiac—this New Moon does not simply promise safety. It heralds transformation. It invites us to release old attachments, initiate life-altering changes, and plant new seeds to reshape our future.
If you have planets or angles between 4°–11° of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), this lunation may not simply grow a tree—it may change the entire landscape of your life. You’re being called to redefine what stability means to you, to find a new sense of sanctuary, and to manifest your desires in new ways, from a place of deeper awareness.
Under this powerful and transformative Moon, one of the most intense of the year, we may face inner and outer crises or weighty decisions. Life’s familiar structures could be tested or collapse altogether, pushing us to redefine how we relate to our power, values, and material reality.
Something is culminating and ending dramatically, perhaps inevitably, creating space for deep emotional release. A symbolic death or dismantling may occur. Not as an end, but as a threshold and preparation for a radically new beginning.
The Grand Cross formed in the Fixed signs, featuring New Moon, Mars in Leo, Pluto in Aquarius, and Lilith in Scorpio, intensifies the landscape. It tests our limits, endurance, and willpower. It may ignite battles of control, raw emotional confrontations, and psychological pressure that shakes the foundations of our inner and outer security.
The square of the Sun and Moon to Mars stirs primal instincts. Tempers flare, and we may feel reactive, impatient, and defensive. Ego conflicts arise, challenging our relationships. But the fire of Mars in Leo also ignites courage and noble action, calling us to stand up for what we believe is right and just.
The square to Pluto signals a symbolic death or sacrifice, one that is necessary for our evolution. It exposes vulnerabilities, buried truths, and long-held wounds. It asks us to face the shadow, to release illusions of control, and shed outdated identities, beliefs, and attachments, in order to transform.
This is the third and final exact opposition of Mars and Pluto, following those in November 2024 and January 2025, reviving inner and outer power struggles. We are compelled to confront our pain, fear, and grief, and alchemize the ghosts of our past into a new way of being.
Lilith in Scorpio, directly opposing the New Moon, adds yet another layer of depth. As the archetype of the dark feminine—unforgiving and untamed, she confronts us with obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and the hunger for control. Yet her challenge is to awaken us: to own our shadow without becoming victims or perpetrators, and to reclaim the fierce integrity of our instincts.
Amid this volatile terrain, collective traumas rise to the surface. Cracks appear in political, social, and economic systems built on false ground. Crises cascade—revealing hidden truths, challenging power structures, and sparking revolutions. Pluto in Aquarius sets its sights on systems of control, monopoly, and social programming, seeking purification and the birth of a new, more conscious society.
Tensions may also flare around natural resources, agriculture, energy, and environmental events with emotional and political impact.
And yet… Venus, the ruler of this New Moon, offers a ray of light.
She stands exalted in Pisces—embodying unconditional, transcendent love. A love that forgives, sacrifices, and uplifts. A love that is sacred, dreamlike, and divine. Her presence is a refuge, a soft reminder of the holy within the human experience.
Her recent conjunction with Saturn grounded our dreams, teaching us that love requires boundaries, commitment, and responsibility. It dispelled illusions, but also offered us a chance to stabilize relationships or creative visions built on truth.
Her sextile to Uranus sparked emotional awakening, breakthroughs in love and finances, and liberation from limiting patterns. And her conjunction with the North Node in Pisces nudged us toward soul-aligned choices—relationships and paths infused with destiny and the promise of growth.
As Venus approaches her conjunction with Neptune in Aries on May 2, she prepares to manifest dreams once forged through trial and pain. She whispers of miracles, of inspired action, of dreams becoming real.
In this way, the New Moon opens a portal of positive change—a fresh beginning rooted in freedom, responsibility, and authentic connection. It invites us to invest our energy into what truly matters, to innovate with purpose, and to lay down new foundations in both our emotional and material lives.
The Sabian Symbol for the degree of this New Moon is:“A Sleigh Without Snow.”
It evokes a sense of stillness, of waiting, of delay. Though the tools and readiness are present, the environment is not yet aligned. It speaks to a pause—a liminal space between what was and what is yet to be.
This pause asks us to adjust expectations. To change course. To use the waiting as sacred space for deeper preparation and inner recalibration.
Perhaps the delay is part of the lesson: to trust divine timing. To hold the vision. To tend the soil before planting. To remember that not all seeds bloom at once—but that each has its season.
This New Moon asks you not to cling to the past or to outdated methods that no longer match who you’ve become. It invites you to embody the wisdom of Taurus: patient, grounded, enduring.
To listen to your emotional truth.
To root into the power that lies not in speed or momentum, but in presence, intention, and a heart that refuses to give up.
This New Moon tests the authenticity of your devotion.
It calls you to continue, not because it’s easy, but because something within you simply cannot do otherwise.
Because within this sacred “continuing” lives the very sanctity of life itself.
May your path be blessed.
May this New Moon illuminate your soul!✨🌙🌱🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli