Full Moon in Taurus - November 5, 2006

I feel sorry for Taurus. The Bull wants security, and she is all alone, opposite five Scorpio planets: Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter. Although both Taurus and Scorpio are fixed signs, Taurus resists change a whole lot more than Scorpio. After all, Scorpio is the sign of deep, personal transformation. An earth sign, Taurus is a bit stick-in-the-mud, whereas watery Scorpio digs underneath the dirt to unearth whatever is preventing her from changing.

Both Taurus and Scorpio do have much in common: money, sex and values. Scorpio is the more social of these two signs, so she's about what we share: our financial resources, our bodies, our emotions. Taurus is more about security, hoarding money and slathering oneself with bath salts to enjoy the sensuality of the body.

Both signs are also pretty possessive: being fixed signs, they don't want to let go. However, Scorpio is more likely to bring out a full onslaught of dark emotions if she catches you looking at another person, whereas Taurus will probably hold in her resentment, stubbornly keeping to herself what's bothering her.

This conflict is exacerbated by a square to Neptune. When both the Sun and Moon make an approximately 90-degree angle to the planet of illusion, we know we're in trouble! Fantasy, deception and delusion are the name of the game. In matters of love, we are in a fantasy world, especially with relationship planet Venus in a tight square with the god of imagination. We are in love with love, and tend to idealize whomever we're smitten with. Neptune also brings out the martyr in us, so we make sacrifices, get all codependent, lose our identities, let ourselves become subsumed by our relationships.

Neptune also makes us extremely sensitive. The Scorpionic part of ourselves is able to tap into our intuitions and read other people. Taurus, being an earth sign, is more likely to "pick up" messages in nature, seeing how all is connected by walking in a forest.

The key for this Full Moon is to not put up walls in defense -- unless, of course, there is real danger. Scorpio is a wee bit suspicious of letting down her guard unless she can totally trust that dissolving her boundaries is safe. And Taurus is afraid that in losing herself in Neptunian transcendence, she'll also lose all that she holds near and dear. Getting your bliss fix can be difficult if you're too "fixed."

This Full Moon will mostly impact those with planets or angles around 12 degrees of the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius), as well people whose birthdays are around February 1, May 3, August 5, or November 5.

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